Builder who helped air 'Swift Boat' ads gives $3 million to pro-Romney super PAC

[IDemo]

Source: msnbc.com

A reclusive Texas homebuilder who helped finance the “Swift Boat Veterans” attacks against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 contributed nearly half of the $6.4 million raised by a super PAC backing Mitt Romney last month.

Bob Perry, owner of the Houston area custom homebuilder Perry Homes and a longtime backer of conservative causes, gave $3 million last month to the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future, according to a report filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.

Perry has been a prolific donor to Republican candidates and causes this election cycle, having previously given $1 million to the same pro-Romney super PAC, as well as $100,000 to a super PAC that backed Texas Gov. Rick Perry and $2.5 million to American Crossroads, the Republican super PAC founded by Karl Rove.

Perry’s support is the latest example of how a small group of extremely wealthy donors are accounting for the bulk of the financing in this year's Republican presidential contest.

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[emulatorloo]

1. These SuperPacs are going to throw so much shit at Obama

The game is to drive his negatives high. Liberal millionaires need to step up to the plate.

[snacker]

2. Perry gave a bunch of money to Scott Walker too. n/t

[madokie]

3. We sure need to fix this super pac thing

Its going to destroy our democracy or what we have of one left anyway.

Man o man right before our eyes the pols and the fatcats are stealing us blind, if its not our money its our homes if not either of them its our democracy itself. fuck where do we turn

[The Wielding Truth]

4. Buying Democracy 101. This could not have been what the founders wanted.

[Canuckistanian]

5. These "reclusive" donors need to be made "famous"

Since they have SO much power and influence over those who govern US.

[lonestarnot]

6. Yes they do.

[Turbineguy]

7. At least he didn't give the money to Obama

that would have roused suspicion.

[starroute]

8. Perry has a long and nasty history in Texas politics

Just do a site search on his name in that little Google box up in the corner and you'll get tons.

Here's something from 2004 that I posted here several years ago and reposted just recently. But there's a whole lot more.

http://www.salon.com/2004/08/28/moore_rove_swift_boat/

The big moneyman behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is Bob Perry and, not surprisingly, the only visible connection between Perry and Swift Boat accuser John O’Neill is their mutual relationship with Karl Rove. Perry worked with Rove early in the consultant’s political ascension. The Houston homebuilder, who has developed into the biggest giver to Republican causes and candidates in Texas, was the finance chairman of the 1986 Texas gubernatorial campaign of Bill Clements. Rove managed that race for Clements and Perry was an important fundraiser, helping Rove generate the donor lists he used to rebuild the Texas Republican Party, and, ultimately, finance the climb of his prize client, George W. Bush.

Rove had already convinced Perry to begin raising money to elect state judges — funds used to help launch the Texas Civil Justice League. The Civil Justice League was Rove’s initial surrogate organization and carried the message that trial lawyers were bad people who were screwing up the business climate with frivolous lawsuits. The chorus singing about the evils of lawyers in Texas was later joined by Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (an organization that Rove helped grow and with which he maintains close contact today), and yet another front group called Texans for Lawsuit Reform. As they chanted their messages across the state about the horrors of litigation, Rove’s political clients were able to publicly acknowledge the concerns of these groups. Thus an entirely artificial movement, conceived and funded by Rove, was used to change the state’s judicial system and, of course, became an essential step in Rove’s master plan to elect Bush governor and then president.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Is it registered in the Cayman Islands too?

[Redneck Democrat]

10. He likes things that are phony

Such as the Swiftboat ads and Mitt Romney

[erpowers]

11. When Can John Kerry Expect A Call From Sarah Palin?

Considering a few days ago Mrs. Palin's daughter, Bristol, wrote a post asking when she should expect a call from President Obama after comments made about her by Bill Maher I think it is fair to ask when John Kerry will get a call from Sarah Palin (and other Republicans) expressing her regret over the ads financed by Mr. Perry. In addition, since Bristol Palin encouraged President Obama to make sure that the $1 million given by Maher to the Super PAC supporting President Obama was returned to Maher, when can we expect both Bristol Palin to call for Mitt Romney to return the "dirty money" he received from Mr. Perry and for Romney to return the money?

[UTUSN]

12. Well, of course!1, that f***ing a-hole does!1 n/t