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Rick Perry Spent 27 Times More Per Vote In 2012 Than Clinton Did In 2008
On Thursday, Rick Perry announced that he will run for President — again.
The former Texas Governor’s first bid for The White House was beset by a series of embarrassing missteps, including a rather unfortunate debate gaffe wherein Perry pledged, if elected, to eliminate three agencies of government but after naming the first two, couldn’t remember the third. Then there was the infamous New Hampshire incident, which saw Perry deliver an incoherent stump speech to supporters before examining a bottle of maple syrup while donning a mischievous grin.
But perhaps more seriously, Perry was indicted last year on criminal charges. Here’s a brief recap from The New York Times:
Mr. Perry has another problem that could hurt his campaign: a criminal indictment. A grand jury in Austin indicted him in August on two felony charges of abusing his official capacity and coercing a public servant.
Mr. Perry pressured the Democratic district attorney in Austin’s Travis County to step down by threatening to cut off state financing to the anticorruption unit in her office.
The district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg, who had been arrested on a charge of drunken driving, remained in office, and Mr. Perry ultimately vetoed $7.5 million for the anticorruption unit.
Mr. Perry and his lawyers have denied any wrongdoing, saying that the veto was lawful. Both Democrats and Republicans believe the case could hinder his campaign. “I’d be surprised if the electorate regards a felony indictment for abuse of power as a qualification for the presidency,” said Craig McDonald, the director of Texans for Public Justice, the watchdog group that filed the original complaint against Mr. Perry.
In any event, if Perry wants to mark a successful comeback in 2016 and spoil Hillary Clinton's inauguration, he'll need to be a bit more efficient with his campaign dollars because, as the following graphic shows, despite spending less in his 2012 bid than nearly every other 'serious' (and we use that term very loosely here) candidate in the last three elections, Perry paid 27 times more per vote in 2012 than did Clinton in 2008.
Assuming Perry somehow makes it out of the Republican primaries, the above suggests he may have a rather difficult time against the imperial Clinton aristocracy...
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Luckily, he forgot how much money he spent per vote.
Alzheimer's has its advantages. He can forget how many women and children and wedding parties he illegally drones.
Rick Perry forgets agency he wants to scrap in Republican debate disasterhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/10/rick-perry-forgets-agency-s...
Jesus, a little less glove oil next time Rick. Is it just me or does he look like he should be hanging of the side of Trigger?
pods
I keep asking myself why he wears those specs, why not contacts, or afford lasik for pete's sake. Now I realize, they must be mini-teleprompters! It's a trap!
I wonder if he's vacationing at Niggerhead this summer?
Where's that? Detroit?
If you wanna win the votes, you're gonna have to cater to the Amexicans...
Will Spanglish replace Ebonics as the official language?
Inquiring minds want to know?
Clinton's votes cost money AFTER the election.
there, fixed it for you.
what a meaniingless article based on a faulty premise....as if Hillary had to spend a nickel to get the Tick and Leech vote (75% of dems)
I'm voting for Hitlery, and I've not bothered voting for anything in 20 years; I just want to pour gasoline on this shit show.
Let's get this party started!
The last 3-4 years Perry has been terrible for Texas -- a real do-nothing. The new guy, Abbot is a former Suprme Court judge is on the ball from what my friends tell me.
if you are one of those who believes that this clownshow of an economy cannot possible hold together for one term of the next president, a vote for hillary makes sense, if you decide to vote. If its a republican thats in office, no matter how much of a big govt, central planning authoritarian you are(pretty much all the republicans qualify) the melt down will be blamed on their 'free market philosophy', even though we have nothing of the kind. At least with hillary, you don't have to worry about that. And i feel like martial law, the military firing on civilians, etc, occuring is a bit of a stretch with hillary telling them to do it.
Of course i thought the same thing during the 2012 election once romney became the nominee.(no, Im not saying I actually voted for BO, just saying I didnt think this shitshow had another 4 years, and Id rather it collapse on his watch, jokes on me I guess)
His image people literally went on the MSM several months ago and said the new look (glasses included) was to make him appear smarter, because they said he actually is a really smart guy.
I'm with you PAF. If I had 2+ .gov pensions/salary, a no-work, no-show 7 figure job + hot paralegals waiting for me at a texas law firm, speaking engagements, and sheldon adleson willing to sponsor rock star presidential campaigns every four years (rolling, romaing, tax-free road trip party for cronies)
... I'd spend the two grand on lasik too ...
Mr. Perry sounds like a scum sucking globalist war monger. Just heard a snippet of a speech appealing to the military industrial complex to ramp up and expend war against people that we invaded when they did nothing but try to exist independently of the western powers.
Hey, if those brown-skinned savages didin want kilt, they shoulda notta been living in their own country! - Boobus Amerkanus
OK i have question. when these clowns run for president and raise money do they get to keep what they dont spend?? this is simply a money grab under the guise of running for president from what I have heard. Anyone now if this is true?
True
whether they are allowed to keep the money or not is a moot point. You will notice that just RUNNING for president and losing the nomination makes for some highly lucrative employment in the following years.
Thank god there ain't no bias here......
Stupid is stupid no matter what and it should be pointed out. Just because the other side is utter shit, doesn't mean the motherfucker gets a pass. The man is a complete boob, there is no way to sugarcoat it.
That said, we might have saved the Republic if we had elected him in 2012. You would have had a roll back of federal lawlessness in matters of immigration enforcement, obamacare rulemaking, EPA rulemaking, judicial overreach into local events like "Ferguson" and "Baltimore", no Jade Helm, no bomb giving to Iran, actual constitution loving judge appointments, etc. With that boob in office.
That said, we might have saved the Republic if we had elected him in 2012
Back to the kiddie table. You're not qualified for this conversation.
LOL at you thinking the asshole that gets "voted" in actually makes any of the plans.
Just bias against corporate shills like Perry.
Rick Perry is the Bush-boy back-up to Jeb ... since Jeb is flailing miserably.
However, as we know from 2012, Perry cannot tie two coherent sentences together without becoming confused or saying something incredibly stupid. In other words, he is a perfect Bush stooge.
You may also recall that he was the Bilderberg choice coming out of their 2011 meeting. Then he kept stepping on his own dick.
If they can keep Perry's mouth closed then they may have a chance. Or maybe he has received the new upgraded Obumma brain implant.
Bush/Clinton, one's a pussy, the other is a cunt. And if the saying "you are what you eat" is true, Barry is a dick and an asshole.
Jawhol, mein Oberst ! So, est is !
What the actual fuck???
Perry represents sleazy on a grand scale, surpassing even the Clintons. He's a war-mongering arsehole, who will readily sell out everything to the highest bidder. How the hell can that man under any circumstances make a comeback? Are people that fucking stupid?
Here are 10 of his moments at his very worst. Christ, if this sleazebag is voted in, the population of the United States must be a magnitude more stupid than anyone could possibly have imagined.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rick-perrys-10-worst-crony-capit...
Fuck em all! I'm done voting. Total waste of time. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Go down to your town hall with a letter stating that you revoke your voter registration. Once you register you have agreed to abide by every shit piece of legislation, statute, regulation and code as your "power of attorney" was given to whomever got elected. Just because you got suckered by lies and voted for the treasonous scum doesn't give you the choice of not complying with unconstitutionally invalid laws that they enact.
Can we please just pick a random person out of the phonebook?
Toupe
Real Hair
Real glasses
Bilderberg teleprompters
He's so slick, yet curiously, also reassuringly hayseedy.
Crime hindering a politicians career, what universe am I in?
abusing his official capacity
I would have thought abusing one's offical capacity was a prerequisite for running for office, either that or abusing little children.
Wait.....what?, abusing his official capacity isn't the same as abusing ones self?
Who knew?
Perry is an ass clown
Other people's money
Perry is an ass clown
Oh look another sociopath enters the race for head politicial sociopath.
He can't run. He's a citizen from the nation of Texas.
Any citizen born on the soil of one of the 50 Nation states of the united states of America can run for President of the usA. However you don't need to be born on the soil of one of the 50 Nation states to run for the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Federal Corporation located in Washington, DC illegitimately created by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Perry is just getting in to play spoiler against Cruz. Take away Texas money and (if it gets far enough) Texas primary voters.
Divide and conquor, split the "tea party" vote, so that Jeb can buy his way to the nomination. The payoff comes if Jeb wins the nomination and Perry makes it onto the ticket or perhaps a cabinet post if Jeb wins the general election.
Bush, Hillbillery, Bush, Black Bush, and now another Bush or Bush Lite?
It's like living in a horrible fucking joke.
Rick Perry is a useless dick. The 2016 election is shaping up to be a rerun of a terrible movie. The same old ass clowns. The democratic party with only one candidate, the old hag witch Hillarroid Clitton and the republican party pushing Bush. More Bush and Clinton royal family picks. Chelsea Clinton will be running in 2020. Our country is a fucking joke.
Yeah, but...........at least its "fucking"!
Hookers and blow cost more than gigolos and wine.
IF you go to the WaPo link and look at the other chart, Hillary spent the most with $231 million, while Rick Perry spent the second smallest amount of money coming in at $19 million. Perry just didin't have as many sheeple convinced, so therefore ended up spending more per vote.
Don't care for him at all, but does this moronic writer think that if someone is running for president they shouldn't allowed to spend money on campaign advertising to try and get their message out, that it should only be reserved for the candidates annointed by TPTB?
Get what message out? Our elections are won by hundreds of millions of dollars spent by Super Pacs for corporate interests. They don't really give a fuck about what the people want. They market, package and sell us on what we want to hear and when in office they don't do anything but push through promises made to big corporations. If you are a one percenter and work for Goldman Sachs you get what you wanted.
And we will be treated to what will seem like an eternity of media attack ads, junk mail, robo calls and senseless drivel about the same worn out and tired issues. Nobody other than Rand Paul will talk about the steady erosion of our constitutional rights, just race baiting, attack ads and neocon warmongerers in both parties hoping, praying for WWIII.
Why even vote???
It's like the senseless voting in the Soviet Union, Brezhnev versus his opponent. The Soviet state hand picked the winner. In todays USSA the cabal and corporations have hand picked their winner!!!
Does spent means funneled back into their own pockets?
This psychopathic, soulless, and neocon piece of shit WILL be Zion's next puppet in the Oval Office. He has been selected, and all of the election noise currently going on is theater for the sheeple.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Sheeple 2016
When You're What's for Dinner
Good grief you are retarded. Just copy pasta your stupid tagline and save the rest of us sane people from the ramblings of your deficient brain.
Does the guy not realize he's wearing I'm A Dumbass NYT Liberal eyeglass frames?
Any number divided by zero is infinity
Pays to be in the Bilderberg clan.
Picture looks like it could be Miley Cyrus in 50 years.
I wouldn't vote for that meatball if he had a sippy cup, strapped to his chin, with a 24K facemask.