Love is fading fast for Rick Perry.
After Rick Perry's multiple GOP Presidential debate train wrecks, his most important and dependable train of them all, the money train that never fails, has suddenly skidded off of the tracks.
WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign fundraising has gone into a tailspin as a result of poor debate performances and plunging poll numbers, jeopardizing his position as the best-funded Republican presidential candidate of 2012.
I guess big donors are a tad squeamish about a candidate who reminds them of Homer Simpson.
Who would have thought it possible?
Rick Perry, the man who never lost an election and who has ruled Texas with an iron fist, suddenly presents as a blithering idiot while on the GOP Presidential campaign trail.
But Perry’s loyal backers are running into resistance from Republican donors. One Perry fundraiser, who asked not to be named, said he received 15 RSVPs for a recent event from potential donors saying they might attend. But after a gaffe-marred Perry debate performance, none showed up.
The media's politely referenced "brain freezes" and the Governor's bumbling inarticulate ramblings have absolutely nothing to do with gaffes. Meltdowns and memory losses such as those experienced by Rick Perry are bound to happen when a souless politician has no real message of substance. When a candidate, whose primary goal is to win in which win means holding on to power and nothing else, believes he can pull it off by parroting memorized talking points, rehearsed campaign slogans and catch phrases. There is never any real punch, passion or truth behind any of Rick Perry's proclamations and promises. For a puppet candidate promises to deliver by memorizing whatever the puppet's string masters tell him to memorize.
The good people of Texas have learned over the last several months that few of us really knew our Governor. He rarely gives talks, except when he is raising money, at fat cat fundraisers, mostly in the GOP raped and pillaged state of California.
The Governor avoids the media and newspaper reporters like the plague. But now that Rick Perry is on the Presidential campaign trail the bright lights called public scrutiny have melted most of his makeup. Once the laser focused spotlight has burned a hole through the curtain we have learned that there is actually no head underneath the Governor's ample hat.
And now that one of his GOP Presidential opponents, Michele Bachmann, has exposed and deplored Rick Perry's practices of crony capitalism, many Texas voters must wonder what on earth they did to themselves when they voted for Rick Perry in 2010.
Texas, we have a problem.
Bill Moyers, veteran journalist and the sage of Texas politics, shares his brilliant words of wisdom with us.
Cross posted on Texas Kaos.
Crony capitalism rears its pervasive head in Texas. Again.
Folks in Montgomery County, just north of Houston, have recently learned about the construction of an industrial waste injection well in their area. This well, that can carry all kinds of ghastly toxic brews, has the potential to contaminate a vital source of Houston's drinking water.
Welcome to life in Rick Perry's Texas.
Of course the TCEQ has approved a permit for this well despite the fact that two administrative law judges said it should have been denied.
But in Rick Perry's Texas crony money and influence rule.
That and TCEQ officials don't really regulate because, well, regulators in Texas are bought. The regulating puppets are appointed by Rick Perry who serves as a proud tool for industry. This makes the TCEQ nothing more than pimped out puppets for both the Governor and his cronies.
Folks should not count on much regulation at all in the once great state of Texas. I guess we will all have to learn how to live happily ever after with toxic disasters and poisoning in a state in which there are few consumer protections.
And as is the case in Rick Perry's Texas, the company seeking to build the well is run by the Governor's allies who have donated generously to his campaigns.
Jennifer Real, a Conroe resident opposing the project, said she is not against injection wells in general, but the scientific evidence suggests the plan by TexCom Gulf Disposal LLP “is a catastrophe waiting to happen.”
“My eyes have been opened,” she said. “I’ve always heard money talks, and money talked in this case. It’s disgusting
I hate to break it to Ms. Real but this case is merely one of countless others.
How about the toxic nuclear waste dump out in West Texas?
The radioactive waste dump permit mentioned by Wheat was successfully sought by Harold Simmons, who has donated more than $1.1 million to Perry’s gubernatorial campaigns, according to Texans for Public Justice.
A recent Texans for Public Justice report found that nearly half the companies that received Texas Enterprise Fund grants also made donations to Perry’s state campaigns or the Republican Governors Association, Perry’s top state campaign contributor.
Now that the good people of Texas know that our Governor is corrupted to the core, so much so that he never intended to serve the people who elected him, what are we going to do about Rick Perry when he returns back home with his tail tucked between his legs?