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First GOP Primary Casualty? Rick Perry Stops Paying Staff, White House Bid In Doubt
The end looks to be near for former Texas governor Rick Perry’s ill-fated attempt to resurrect a Presidential bid.
Perry, whose "oops" moment at a 2012 GOP debate has since become the stuff of campaign trail legend, was relegated to the second tier, "losers" bracket at the first debate of the Republican primary last week and even there, he failed to stand out, as Carly Fiorina swept the field.
Now, Perry has reportedly stopped paying campaign aides after failing to raise enough cash. Here’s The New York Times with more:
After raising only a little over $1 million for his campaign by the end of June, Rick Perry has stopped paying campaign staff members, aides said, an indication that his funds have all but dried up.
Mr. Perry, a former Texas governor who is trying to resurrect his presidential hopes after a failed bid for the Republican nomination in 2012, has not indicated to aides when he will be able to begin paying them again, according to members of his staff.
One aide, who requested anonymity to speak about the inner workings of the campaign, said he did not expect to be paid for at least a few weeks.
Mr. Perry narrowly missed qualifying for the prime-time debate last week and, despite a determined effort to reintroduce himself to Republican voters, has struggled to gain traction in the early nominating states. In past campaigns, such difficulties along with an apparently grim financial ledger, would likely prompt a candidate to drop out of the race.
Yes, one would think that being generally unpopular with voters and running out of money would suggest that it's time to "throw the damn towel", so to speak. But for anyone who enjoys Perry's downhome demeanor, there's still hope says Austin Barbour, who works for Perry’s super PACs. "We raised so much money we have the ability to support him in a number of ways. And we’ve been looking at all different ways to support him, not just paid media," Barbour said Monday.
Here's more from The Washington Post:
[Perry's] worst moment came at a [2012] debate in Michigan when he could not remember all of the federal agencies he had been vowing to eliminate as president. His final word as he admitted he couldn’t recall the names was, "Oops."
That became the caricature of Perry as a poorly prepared candidate. It was an image he was determined to erase as he looked toward the 2016 campaign. Perry was candid about the mistakes he made in that first campaign and in the intervening time immersed himself in the details of domestic and international policies.
Perry said he believed voters were willing to give him a second chance.
That, apparently, is not the case, no matter how bad his now pro bono staff wants it to be.
And let's not forget, Perry isn't known for being very efficient when it comes to votes per campaign dollar spent.
All in all, it might be best to just call it quits and try again in four years.
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Good move. And don't try again in four years.
The guy's a fake. He doesn't even wear boots anymore.
Ugh, every person that exits the clown car gonna get their own article?
Mr Perry should ask Miss Cleo to psychically get in touch with Ronald Raven and find out what to do next! :>D
They're all fake. They have no core values beyond doing whatever it takes to steal a dollar, and not one of them knows who they really are.
I'm pretty sure they know they're nothing but whores.
Yes but civic duty and patriotism! Pretend it matters for 'Murika!
We need to come up with a way to protest this farce a little better than just staying home like a boycott of everything.
Lock and load. I'll follow you in.
I've got a better idea: How about we just stop playing their game, and learn to be happy with what we have, and quit trying to always have bigger and better, and quit looking up to those who have bigger and better since most of them got it by being assholes? How about we quit wanting everyone else to change, and start changing ourselves, and simply say "enough" to all of this nonsense? Never forget that some games can only be won by not playing them.
"Are you waiting for the world to get it?
If you're waiting for the world, forget it.
I'm not waiting for the world." - Swervedriver
"They're all fake. They have no core values beyond doing whatever it takes to steal a dollar, and not one of them knows who they really are."
That is so well stated it borders on poetic. I'm reminded of this classic:
"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar"
- T.S. Eliot
Texans talk a lot of big shit but they did nothing about Waco 1 or Waco 2. they acted like little puppies.
They have that dirt bag Cornyn, Goldman Sachs Cruz, the carpetbagger Connecticut Bushes and they are still votin for them (see George Pedro Osvaldo Adolph Bush IV - the Mexican one). The Bush klan always around nazi union Bank or JFK getting whacked or 9/11 or open borders or Jebster the retard. Or the Bushes - best friends with the vile Clintons.
Texans love supporting Trayvons knock out thugs in college and pro ball like other white idiots who idolize their Trayvons like sheep and girly men.
To our never ending shame, you are correct.
Others will follow...does this mean all those candidates that didn't raise their hand will lend support to Donald Trump if he gets the Republican nomination? I think not.
"Is there anyone on stage, and can I see hands, who is unwilling tonight, to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the Republican party, and pledge to not run an independant campaign against that person."
They all indicated their support for Donald Trump should he get the nomination...we shall see.
https://youtu.be/yInw8LyWTN8?t=33s
another zio stooge bites the dust.
Rick Perry can have Texas secede from the Union and then he can become President of the United States of Texas. That is his only hope of ever becoming President.
Not gonna happen. He's done in Texas, too. Perry comes off as a lightweight Dubya clone, and that's saying something...
Bush lite.
Us real Texans knew he was a fake....Abbott however seems to be the real deal.
I agree.
Well Perry was not a junior family of the Black Hand Nobility like the Bush klan. They are junior members.
Texans keep voting for them....see George Pedro Osvaldo Hernando Adolph Lupe Gonzsalvo Bush the IV. Jeb's little dark one as Poppy would say.
http://investigate911.org/Oligarchy.htm
Needs smarter glasses, and a brain.
His staffers should've taught him a bunch of $40 words so at least he'd sound smarter.
You mean like Rick Perry is an anthropomorphic piece of zio shit.
Give him a break, he went to ATM college. Perry excelled there, if that gives you an indication of the academic level at this fine institution.
Maybe he can do a couple of movies and make some San Fran money? He looked like he was comfortable with that corn dog.
The Jews in the valley are always in need of fluffers too.
pods
No, the first casualty is the American people because it doesn't matter who is selected for us, they are still going to sell the country down the river.
We're already sold down the river. They will now hand out paddles to speed up the trip.
Could a gender change be in the offing?
Perry is an olympic class simpleton, even worse than GW - hard to believe ! - and could prosper in politics ONLY in Texas, home of the christian taleban.
Good riddens !!!!!!!
I was SO afraid we were gonna get this W clone a couple elections ago. "Why not another guy I'd like to have a beer with? "
Typical republican, first he'll fuck over the little people, steal their pay checks, then he'll fuck over guys he rented his offices from, then he'll fuck over the big boys who donated, say he's donated any remaining funds, when they're really in his pocket.
Yeah, because the repukes have the corner on the market when it comes to screwing people over. Yay blue team...... idiot.
Sorry, I can't help myself, I MUST troll once in a while. With all the "both parties are the same" rhetoric around here, all while being an obviously "red team" comments board, the best way to get a reaction is to say something negative about republicans.
Take a look at the up/down arrows. Now you know exactly what the red/blue mix is today.
Like any good texan, all he had to do was build a damn fence. If he was smart, he woulda made it out of empty Walmart containers with the open doors facing South..once they were packed tight with Mexicans, slam the doors and ship them off to China and let them figure out what to do with them...talk about exports!
Best idea I've heard yet...
Rick Perry should go beg Mr Trump for money like he used to.
A bit like many other governors - Perry got to ride through as governor during good economic years and Perry had booming oil too. To his credit, he generally stayed out of the way. To his discredit is his bumbling image, since we now evaluate candidates by their instant reaction to trick questions. Taking several minutes to formulate a reasoned and complete response, then actually saying it, dooms any potential candidate.
Having failed to Zap Trump with trick questions, the Republican establishment is pushing for Trump to reveal his 'policies'. Even though very few of the debate questions were about policies. The hope for the RINOS is to be able to bash the policies, since they cannot get to the man himself. It is an important time for Trump to get through.
Oh no! The GOP wants to know what Trump the Chump would actually _do_ as president! You know, maybe to make sure he is a Republican rather than the Hillary-contributing Democrat, or Reform Party presidential candidate, he used to be. The horror!
As chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1999 to 2005,... So I guess she didn't run HP when I lost money on the stock.
Born in 1954, wow, must be the hair and make up I didn't know she was in her 60s.
But I don't watch Cable TV.
Ask Bill Hewlett's son on what Carly did with the spin off on Agilent with Deutsche Bank to get their votes to swing the board. Carly was also the #2 when Lucent blew up with a channel stuffing pipeline of fake sales. She is not a nice person.
Rick Santorum is the best in that second group.
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Who the Fuck is Rick Perry???
Katy Perry's husband. Duh.
I see Trump lost a whole 2% for his bloody mary comment. He might be like Regan and have teh Tefflon.
Reagan. Learn to spell.
Isn't it the Democrats .... who are Teflon coated .... by the media .... Lois Lerner, Obama, Hillary, Bill, Algore, Corzine, little Jimmy Carter ad nauseum ?
Carly had the biggest schlong of the 2nd tier... according to that protruding bar graph.
That Rocky video is perfect for the central bankers ZIRP and QE policies. Throw the damn towel, before you kill the entire system, it doesn't work!!!
Good decision for Perry to drop out. It wasn't happening for him. Why waste money? Commendable decision.
I would crawl across grass to vote for Rick Perry if he was running against the Jebster or Rubio. This is how bad Jeb and Rubio are. Goldman Sachs Cruz is not much better.
It is s shame Rand is not Ron but they would freeze him out anyway.
America's elections are not real so it does not really matter.
Knowing that you're stupid is a form of intelligence....
and it is a damn shame more do not follow my advice upon coming to this realization.
"Do no reproduce."
Then Hillary is really stooopid !
Artists and political staffers .... live in the real world ..... only a paycheck away .... from disaster .... no wonder they dream of cradle to grave government employment !
Good riddance!!!
I hope that Graham, Gilmore and Santorum are next.
It would be nice if all of them other than Paul went away, and anymore I'm not so sure he shouldn't go away too. Could we get a do-over with someone who's any damn good at all?
There won't be any lamentations and rending of garments down here in Texas, should the mo ron give it up.
He must think that because we elected him 3 times to be Texasasses do nothing governor that it means he was responsible for all the good times brought on by the since reversed uptick in the oil bidness. The good times predicated on the oil bidness could have been celebrated in Califas if the inmates weren't running that asylum or New York if the pinkos weren't running it.
It never cease to amaze me how egotistical and viscerally stupid most of the current batch of candidates for Republican president, are.
That being said, it also amazes me how immoral, wicked, and evil the dims have "evolved" into.
Meet yall down tickers, in the trenches at the neches river.
I'm embarassed for the "brain trust" of the GOP, for telling Mittens no thanks, we got this. Really? With this group?
Guess Rick is not so popular without the Bilderberg nod and MSM glowing articles.
Well that sucks for me, as I predicted that Perry was the neocons' pick to be the next puppet in the Oval Office.
I was wrong.
However, still not wrong about how the Oval Office puppets are selected, not elected, Trump is a false-candidate, and, like in 2008, none of the so-called front-runners are the actual selected puppet.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Wrong about the horse, but still win the trifecta.
If he can't pay his staff then how can he bring new jobs and opportunity to Americans?
And he wants to be the next President!