Consultant to Chicken Rick fingered in Green Party ballot scandal

[derby378]

(Note: cross-posted in GD - d)

A document surrendered under court order identifies Rick Perry campaign consultant, Anthony Holm, as a key person working with Green Party leaders to use Republican money to fund a signature gathering campaign to qualify Green Party of Texas candidates for the 2010 ballot. Holm is a principal of the Patriot Group, which is a well- known GOP political consulting firm that lists Republican Governor Rick Perry as its client. During the current election ccle, the Rick Perry Campaign has paid the Patriot Group at least $90,000 (Source: Texas Ethics Commission). Holm also worked as an aide to Rick Perry calling himself, “Special Projects Director for Texas Governor Rick Perry” (Source: Patriot Group Website).

Anthony Holm is the spokesperson for millionaire Texas homebuilder and Republican financier, Bob Perry (Source: Dallas Morning News, March 5, 2009). Bob Perry has long been one of the nation’s largest contributors to Republican candidates and causes, particularly those in Texas. Bob Perry helped pay for the infamous Swift Boat attack ads in 2004 (Source: Dallas Morning News, March 3, 2010). He has contributed millions of dollars to the Republican Governors Association, various Rick Perry campaigns and to current Republican members of the Texas Supreme Court (Source: FEC, Texas Ethics Commission).

http://www.lonestarproject.net/

Direct link to the e-mail implicating Holm:

http://www.lonestarproject.net/files/HolmEmail.pdf

[sonias]

1. Perry was involved - there is too much Perry tainted smoke in the fire

Anthony Holm, Mike Toomey - both of them probably worked it out with Perry camp.

And the Democrats are right. It's not the ballot initiative anymore - it's the cover up. The coordination and the cover up.

Plus SwiftBoater Bob Perry owns Rick Perry anyway, so no surprise. He's probably the "corporate funder" for the whole initiative to begin with.

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[sonias]

2. Man who helped put Green Party on Texas ballot was on Perry payroll at same time

(Update on the ballot scam story)

Dallas Morning News 7/28/10
Man who helped put Green Party on Texas ballot was on Perry payroll at same time

AUSTIN – A local Republican operative who helped put the Green Party on the Texas ballot was working at the time for Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaign.

Perry spokesman Mark Miner said Tuesday, as he has before, that the governor's campaign was not involved in the Green Party petition drive.

But finance reports show that the campaign paid Stuart Moss for mileage while he was doing political research for the Perry camp in November, the same time he was helping the Green Party field candidates.

Miner said Moss' work was related to the GOP primary, not the Green Party.

"It was for research," Miner said. "Our campaign had had nothing to do and continues to have nothing to do with the Green Party efforts."

To quote the other idiot past Governor bushie

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

Lone Star Project has more on their site now too:

http://www.lonestarproject.net/

(snip)

Rick Perry Campaign Is Not Telling the Truth
For weeks, Perry spokesman Mark Miner has insisted that the Perry campaign had no knowledge or connection to the Green Party/GOP ballot scandal. Rick Perry himself denied involvement in the scheme; yet, virtually each week another tie to the Perry Campaign is revealed. Click here to see denials by Rick Perry and his campaign .

The payment to Stuart Moss exposes Miner’s and Governor Perry’s past statements as flatly untrue. The Perry campaign no longer has any credibility and should immediately release:

* Complete documentation of all work – both volunteer and paid – Stuart Moss has done for the Perry campaign,
* All receipts documenting Moss’s expenses, and
* All records of communication between Moss and the Rick Perry campaign

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