More proof that Rick Perry is your A-typical scum bag politician:
For Perry, being governor has perks - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com
Some gems:
Im sure this is only the tip of the iceberg of what really goes down, just proof that he is in the pocket of big corps like 99% of scum bag politicians. Now take this and multiply it by the thousands of politicians we have and you begin to see the size of corruption in our Government, Perry is just one example.
For Perry, being governor has perks - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com
Some gems:
Some of the same Texas donors who have funded Perry’s political rise also have footed the bills for Perry and his family to jet around the world, stay in luxury hotels and resorts, vacation in tony Colorado ski towns, attend all manner of sporting events and concerts, and to maintain, entertain — and even pay the cable bill — at the 4,600-square-foot mansion with a heated pool that taxpayers are renting for him at a cost of about $8,500 a month.
Insurance company owner Phil Adams of Bryan, Texas, another A&M buddy, over the years has given Perry, his wife and their children tickets to a range of football and basketball games — including the 2007 Big 12 basketball tournament — and picked up the tab for their lodging and transportation to some of the games, too. Additionally, between 2005 and 2009, Adams’s company at times employed one or both of the Perry’s two children, then in their late teens or 20s, to do secretarial work, and Adams has contributed nearly $290,000 to Perry’s gubernatorial campaigns.
Meanwhile, Perry appointed Adams to the A&M board of regents in 2001 and 2009, and a company in which he’s invested, Terrabon Inc., got $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, a state economic development program overseen by Perry.
Then there’s James Leininger, a physician and businessman who has been a top donor to Perry’s campaigns and who, late last month, hosted a private meeting at which Perry and his presidential campaign team wooed about 180 influential social and religious conservatives over sweet tea and Texas barbecue at his ranch in Hill Country outside San Antonio.
Leininger has flown Perry, an avid hunter, to his various ranches (some of which are stocked with rare African animals) to go hunting several times over the years, given him tickets to see pro basketball’s San Antonio Spurs (of which Leininger has been a part owner) and helped pay Perry’s way on other trips, including one in 2004 to the Bahamas for scuba diving and golf.
Leininger, who could not be reached for comment, also has done well by the Perry administration, earning a 2001 appointment to the Texas Board of Health, and in 2009, benefiting when the emerging technology fund invested $1.75 million in a biotech company in which Leininger owned a major stake.
The trip had been organized and partly funded by Irwin Katsof, an international energy financier and Israel backer who also helped fund a 2007 Perry trip to Israel. Before the 2009 trip, Katsof asked attendees what type of scotch they’d like on hand for a “scotch and cigar bar” where they would admire “a starry Jerusalem, according to an investigative report by KTVT, the CBS affiliate in Fort Worth/Dallas.
While the trip does not appear to have been planned initially as a TexasOne venture, the month afterward, Doug Pitcock, a major Perry campaign contributor who runs a road building firm that does millions of dollars in business with the state, revealed that he had loaned his plane to the governor to fly to Israel and wanted to donate the cost of the flight — $180,000 — to TexasOne as an in-kind tax-deductible contribution.
Im sure this is only the tip of the iceberg of what really goes down, just proof that he is in the pocket of big corps like 99% of scum bag politicians. Now take this and multiply it by the thousands of politicians we have and you begin to see the size of corruption in our Government, Perry is just one example.