According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican Tea Partista (GOTP) poster boy Rick Perry raised nearly $103 million in campaign contributions during his decade as governor of Texas, with nearly half of the total raised coming from 204 “mega-donors” of $100,000 or more.
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons is Ricky’s third-highest contributor tipping the scale with more than $1.1 million “donated”. Simmons, coincidently, is developing a disposal site in West Texas for low-level radioactive waste.
What does it all mean? It means that Governor Ricky has a bad habit of collecting hefty contributions from “donors” and returning political favors to them, such as ramming through legislation which made Simmons’ proposed waste site a reality, and which also allowed it to expand from two states and the federal government as the only entities allowed to store waste there, to more than 38 states; meaning nuclear waste is rolling across the country to be stored in west Texas lining Simmons’ pockets with money. No doubt Ricky is hoping to somehow avoid any real scrutiny of his “pay for play” practices in Texas; we can only hope his opponents in the GOTP presidential circus won’t let that happen.
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