Video: Rick Perry: Supported TARP Bailout
Video: Rick Perry supported the TARP BAILOUTS
Posted on 09/22/2011 9:05:15 AM PDT by iowamark
On Friday morning, our very own Rebekah Maxwell got an opportunity to do something few in the media have had the chance to do at one of Rick Perry’s presidential campaign stops — ask him a serious question about his own record.
Given Perry’s answer, it calls into question either Perry’s truthfulness or whether or not he even knows his own record.
In the exchange, Maxwell asks Perry about his support for the controversial 2008 bank bailout known as the TARP, a hugely unpopular move that eventually launched what is now known as the Tea Party movement. Perry responds by saying he never supported the TARP and that Maxwell is mistaken.
Maxwell asked this question of Perry because contrary to his own assertion he never supported the big-government boondoggle, there is ample evidence to the contrary which says in fact he actually did.
That is just some of the clear evidence indicating Perry did indeed support the TARP, despite his denials to Maxwell. Perry, you’ll recall, hosted an event called The Response in his native state of Texas back in August, which urged public repentance to Jesus Christ as our savior for our sins as a nation.
Would lying be considered an act worthy of public repentance? At the very least, for “Fed Up” voters it certainly requires a “response” from Governor Perry.
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Video: Rick Perry: Supported TARP Bailout
Video: Rick Perry supported the TARP BAILOUTS
Captain Gardasil lies ? But he’s so honest...
I watched the videos in good faith, believing I was going to see evidence to support the claims of the article. Instead, I saw inuendo, out of context remarks and ample use of newspaper headlines, rather than Perry’s position spelled out.
Shameful.
I’m not all that strong on Perry. It is definitely one of those “lesser evil” things with me. If there is something real there I really want to see it. But this was a hit piece, nothing more.
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So how many political/personal slush funds does Senor Ricky have---that he forgot to mention? This is what we know to date----could be many many more.
<><> “Texans for Rick Perry” committee is a $102 million slush fund he uses at will. Some PAC mega-donors paid in $100,000 each in order to influence Perry's official actions. Gov Perry paid for posh family trips to the Bahamas, Amsterdam, Madrid out of campaign contributions from his “Texans for Rick Perry” committee.
<><> Perry's "Make Us Great Again PAC" raised millions to flood Iowa, and other early voting states, with ads promoting their boy.
<><> At the time he was saying he WAS NOT running for president last year, Ricky's Super-Pac raised $55 million for a presidential race---in $2500 max per person/ $5000 max per corporate PAC contributions. Perry organizers would not say what the Perry presidential groups has raised to date.
<><> Perry bragged at the Tea Party debate that he raised $33 million for reelection that year and that he was "offended" at the inference that he could be "bought" with Gardisil mfg Merck's $5000 campaign donation.
<><> The $295 million Texas Enterprise Fund doles out millions of tax dollars to Perry supporters who then kick-backed to his campaign coffers. TESF also gave $20 million to Countrywide Mtge---the crooks at the heart of the US financial meltdown---- Ricky said the $20 million was to (cough) "create jobs."
<><> Perry raised funds for the Republican Governors' Association, and, in turn, Perry's 2006 campaign received two $500,000 checks from the RGA that he did not disclose as election law requires.
<><> His wife Anita Perry's $60,000-a-year salary at the Austin "nonprofit" "Texas Association Against Sexual Assault" comes indirectly from Gov. Perry's political donors, state contractors and companies that do business with the state or have issues before the Legislature. Of 37 major donors during Anita Perry's tenure as fundraiser, ONLY three have NO ties to the governor or state business. Anita Perry is paid from the "nonprofit" money pool that includes political contributions. TAAS also receives grants from state agencies AND the governor's office. Donating to the TAASA seems to be another way Perry dreamed up for those with an interest in state government to influence Perry. State grants to the "non-profit" could be easily laundered especially w/ Mrs P at the helm.
<><> Perry also has a pot of "inaugural committee" monies (bet that comes in handy).
<><> And do on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.
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My, my, Ricky's come a long, long way. It was only yesterday, farm boy Rick sold Bibles door-to-door to get money to buy a car. Perry's hopes to become a veterinarian were dashed when he flunked animal science in college. Then Ricky got into $$$Texa$ politic$-----and hi$ money worrie$ vani$hed. Now he travels to campaign stops in a sleek corporate jet, and has hundreds of millions of dollars at his disposal........over and above the paltry amount in his blind trust that he "allowed" voters to see.
I just read that letter. I like it. What is damning in it?
The Tea Party was launched as a result of Washington politicians foisting TARP on an unwilling taxpaying public. 'Conservative' Rick Perry supported it.
The TP does not agree with Perry on the big-government, nanny-state Gardasil debacle.
The TP does not agree with Perry on his opposition to the border fence.
The TP does not agree with Perry on his opposition to Arizona trying to defend itself from the ILLEGAL hordes that he wants to make citizens.
The TP opposed Perry on the TTC.
The TP does not support Perry’s warped view that anyone opposing instate tuition for ILLEGAL aliens does so because of the ILLEGAL aliens’ last names.
The TP did not agree with Obama and Pelosi’s stimulus bailout plan yet Perry took stimulus cash anyway.
Rick Perry is a big government, progressive neocon candidate much the same as Mitt Romney ;he is a fraud and anything but in line with the TP's core principles.
Funny thing about that whole TARP thing and the way conservatives went ballistic over Obama getting money from AIG.
Now that the chief exec of AIG (Hank Greenberg) is hosting fundraisers for Perry we hear nothing but crickets.
The point is Perry d-e-n-i-e-d he sent the letter....that's the point.
Get it?
—The point is Perry d-e-n-i-e-d he sent the letter....that’s the point.
Get it?—
No. I did not see or hear any information in those articles/videos where Perry denied sending that letter. Notice the letter supports no particular bill. Rather, it is a generic call from a bi-partisan governors group to ask the congress to do something responsible. It doesn’t say what, other than to leave their political bickering at the door.
Now, I know that sort of letter is pretty worthless, but this one is not a smoking gun. It doesn’t say anything.
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The letter says nothing about TARP. It talks about an "economic recovery package", which could mean anything from tax reform, tax cuts, regulatory reform, etc. If he would have been intended to specifically support TARP in that letter, he likely would have said "TARP". He didn't.
If you want to argue that he must have "meant" TARP, feel free, but that's an inference you're making, not some kind of contradictory "gotcha".
Trashy hit piece of the lowest order.
No. We are supposed to believe that the letter urged action, but did not even come close to endorsing any specific plan.
Does it not concern any of you running with this garbage that neither Perry NOR Manchin supported TARP? BOTH of those who signed the letter did not support the bailout.
I know it screws up the narrative of Perry as an evil, lying RINO, but facts are stubborn things.
Come on now.
You guys at Texans for Public Justice can do better than this.
LOL
Another instance when Perry's brain was AWOL. If he didn't support TARP, that was a good time to say what he thought he meant.
Not very quick on his feet, is he?
On October 1, 2008, the same day Perry sent his letter, the senate debated and voted on an amendment to H.R. 1424, which substituted a newly revised version of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act for the language of H.R. 1424. The Senate accepted the amendment and passed the entire amended bill. The amended version of H.R. 1424 was then sent to the House for consideration. On October 3, just 2-days after Perry’s letter, the House passed the bill known as TARP and Bush signed it.
Did Perry use the term, “TARP” in his letter to Pelosi? No, but at the time he sent his letter it wasn’t known as TARP. To say Perry never supported ‘TARP’ is one thing -- but to say he never supported a big-government bailout of the U.S. financial system is a losing argument -- that was the point of his letter.
I don't think I've ever heard TARP -- in any form under any name -- described as an "economic stimulus package". You might call it "ensuring the integrity of the financial system" or something along those lines, but "economic stimulus package" just doesn't seem to fit what TARP was. Heck, why didn't they just say they supported H.R. 1424 (or some version of it) if that's what they meant?
I don't think I've ever heard TARP -- in any form under any name -- described as an "economic stimulus package". You might call it "ensuring the integrity of the financial system" or something along those lines, but "economic stimulus package" just doesn't seem to fit what TARP was. Heck, why didn't they just say they supported H.R. 1424 (or some version of it) if that's what they meant?
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