Perry & his cronies: The Shelley-Cintra-Giuliani connection

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With the pay-to-play Solyndra scandal rocking the White House, presidential hopeful Rick Perry is embroiled in a mountain of crony capitalism controversy all his own. During the September 12 GOP presidential debate, Michelle Bachmann exposed the money trail behind Perry’s Executive Order mandating all 6th grade girls in Texas receive the Gardasil HPV vaccine made by the drug company, Merck, the employer of Perry’s former Chief of Staff, Mike Toomey, at the time. Merck funneled money to Perry, initially $5,000, but eventually adding up to the tidy sum of closer to $400,000, sparking outrage across Texas and now the nation.

Toomey’s just the tip of the ice berg.

A recent bill pushed through the Texas Legislature benefited the company Waste Control Specialists, owned by #2 donor to Gov. Rick Perry, Harold Simmons. Just days after the bill was signed into law, Mr. Simmons wrote a $100,000 check to Americans for Rick Perry, the super PAC supporting Gov. Perry's candidacy for president notes Debra Medina of We Texans.



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1. We bashed those private toll roads last night in our discussion

Someone mentioned that the toll roads are not bringing in the money they were promised, so there is talk that they are going to hit the state for money (i.e. more taxpayer dollars) to satisfy them. And Lithos mentioned that the structure of the toll roads was that the state (i.e. taxpayers) get all the risk while the private toll companies get all the revenue. Heck of deal Perry! Heck of deal for you corporate buddies! :mad:

Rick Perry’s crony capitalism wasn’t just a fleeting lapse of judgment pertaining to the HPV scandal, it’s a consistent pattern of revolving door, pay-to-play crony capitalism that Americans detest and can ill afford.

Wake up American before it is too late - Perry is 100 times worse than bushie and you wouldn't bring that idiot back, would you?