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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They don’t even mention Perry’s income from his years of private sector work.


5 posted on 12/17/2011 2:23:48 AM PST by trumandogz (If Rick Perry cannot secure his own Internet domain name, how could he be trusted to secure America?)
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To: trumandogz
They don’t even mention Perry’s income from his years of private sector work.

You mean the few years after he got out of the Air Force, when he worked with his dad trying to scratch out a living on a West Texas cotton farm during a drought?

7 posted on 12/17/2011 2:27:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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...trumandogz (If Rick Perry cannot secure his own Internet domain name, how could he be trusted to secure America?)

........"Also, a warning to Newt Gingrich’s campaign: newtgingrich.com is currently for sale. His campaign, located at newt.org, might want to look into that."

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In Campaign 2012, Web sites are the new real estate ...."A Washington Post analysis of federal campaign spending reports shows that President Obama and Romney spent thousands of dollars this summer at Go­Daddy.com."....The Perry campaign said it had not bought many domains; it reported no such expenditures in its campaign finance report filed last week.

“The public is more interested in how the candidates can create jobs and improve the economy, not how many domain names you can rack up,” Perry spokesman Mark Miner said. “We’re not running for student body council here. This is for president of the United States.”

But Perry’s opponents and other parties are buying up domains about Perry. In most cases, the addresses have not been put to use and lead to empty Web pages.

In several instances, anti-Perry domains were bought on the same dates that the Romney or Obama campaigns reported making transactions at GoDaddy.com, according to an analysis of online domain-registration records.

On Aug. 15, two days after Perry launched his campaign, Obama’s campaign spent $3,958 at Go­Daddy.com. At least 70 domains containing Perry’s name were bought on the same date."...

9 posted on 12/17/2011 3:01:02 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: trumandogz
They don’t even mention Perry’s income from his years of private sector work.

Are you being sarcastic? Perry spent very little time in the private sector - he's a career politician.
139 posted on 12/17/2011 6:49:00 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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