Rick Perry tried to justify his new anti-gay, and anti-every-religion-but-Christianity ad
by putting out an equally offensive ad. In his new ad Perry attempts to justify his previous remarks by explaining that he is not “politically correct,” as if that would make his anti-gay, anti-every religion but Christianity, remarks acceptable.
Perry specifically mentions the corruption caused by congressmen becoming lobbyists as one form of legal corruption. He concludes by saying:
“I’m Rick Perry, an outsider, who will overhaul Washington and tell you the truth,…”
As bold, foolish, and paradoxical as the first ad might seem, this second is worse. In the second, Perry specifically makes reference to the legal corruption promoted by lobbyists who formerly held office or were closely related to a politician who was in office. It’s as if Perry thinks we have forgotten about Mike Toomey. Mike Toomey was the former chief-of-staff for Perry, and who went on to work as one of only three lobbyists in the State of Texas for Merck, the drug company that manufactures Gardasil. Perry’s ties to Merck run even deeper. Perry received thousands of dollars from Merck’s political action committee. Merck doubled its lobbying efforts in Texas, not only supporting Perry, but also “Women in Government.” Perry is connected to “Women in Government.” Perry’s current chief of staff is related to the state director of Women in Government. She is his mother-in-law. Additionally a top official from Merck’s vaccine division sits on Women in Government’s business council. Thus, when Rick Perry issued an executive order mandating the vaccination of school girls between ages 11 and 12, with Gardasil, manufactured by Merck, it created the appearance of political incorrectness.
Mike Toomey is respected and feared for his keen intellect, tough political tactics and his longstanding partnership with the governor. Mr. Toomey’s clients have won $2 Billion in state government contracts since 2008. Mr. Toomey has turned his success on behalf of his clients to Mr. Perry’s benefit, funneling their political donations into groups that have helped strengthen both his legislative majorities and his re-election efforts. Campaign finance laws have often allowed Mr. Toomey and his clients to obscure their involvement. Toomey was involved in the Tom Delay scandal over the 2002 redistricting of congressional districts in Texas? He was one of the shadiest, most central of figures in that scandal.
But the unethical conduct of Toomey doesn’t end at the executive order mandating the use of Garsadil. Mr. Toomey, “…embodies the worst in Texas that has led to deregulation, corruption, unethical figures like Tom Delay, and the enrichment of special big business interests at the expense of Texans.” The fact that Toomey was paid $260,000 by Merck to lobby Perry and his aides is only one example of the money he has realized as a result of his relationship to Rick Perry, and the money he has funneled to Perry. Mike Toomey helped Rick Perry get $465,000 in a land deal from Michael Dell, the computer magnate.
Perry once sold a 9.3-acre tract to computer magnate Michael Dell for nearly four times what he paid for it, using influential Texas lobbyist Mike Toomey as the broker. The West Austin property sold for $465,000 in 1995 and gave the Dell estate badly needed access to an adjacent municipal sewage district.
Thus when Perry says he is not “politically correct” he is right. He is politically “incorrect” and his relationship with Mike Toomey is not only unethical, but is a specific example of a politician turned lobbyist. Mike Toomey is exactly the type of scum that hurts all of Texas, and he is trying to position himself to cause damage to the entire country. Rick Perry says he is not “politically correct,’ and that’s the first thing he has said that we can believe.
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December 14, 2011 at 11:08 am
B.W.
Apparently Perry thinks that he does not have to meet the standard of “walking the walk”. He is not the person to clean up D.C. since the next governor of TX will have to clean up after him!
December 15, 2011 at 1:04 am
kelgal
Malia~
There is a new book about the gay rumors related to Rick Perry available on Amazon in Kindle format.
Head Figure Head : The Search for the Hidden Life of Rick Perry by Glen Maxey
December 15, 2011 at 9:27 am
malialitman
keigal,
Thanks for the information! I’ll try to get it! Malia
December 15, 2011 at 10:44 am
B. W.
Malia —
I just found this and thought that as a Texan you would particularly find this amusing. Here is a quote from Holland Taylor (from Two and a Half Men) who is playing Ann Richards on Broadway. She was asked her views on Bachmann and Palin, to which she replied:
“In recent years, the ‘mom candidates’ who have surged forward are not politicians and not experienced and don’t know what the hell they’re talking about for the most part,” said Taylor.
“Ann Richards had been the treasurer of the state. She managed $2 billion as a constant daily balance. She was extremely capable. She had been county commissioner for six years, state treasurer for [eight]. That’s when she ran for governor, not president.”
What, we asked, would Richards think of female politicians like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann? Leaning forward in her chair, Taylor replied, “I think she would laugh her ass off.” With her hands moving animatedly, she said, “I see Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin and think it is the end of the world if they can actually be taken seriously as presidential candidates. But Ann would just think it was funny. I think she would be pretty sure they wouldn’t get elected so they would just be good amusement value.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/
December 15, 2011 at 10:58 am
malialitman
BW,
Priceless! I’ll post it later today! Thanks, Malia
December 15, 2011 at 11:16 am
B. W.
Speaking of books to check out, as ‘kelgal’ reminds me, I wanted you to know about a book by a Harvard historian Jill Lepore on the Tea Party called “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Fight for American History.”
I heard her on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross on another topic, but she mentioned her newest book, which I have just downloaded onto my Kindle. If she writes as well as she speaks, this will be a useful book with which to combat the lunacy of the Right.
December 15, 2011 at 3:18 pm
B. W.
Nowhere else to post this for you, Malia. Here’s another good find, this time about Newt. Alan Grayson is aiming his metaphorical ammo at Newt and using Newt’s own blather against him. Here’s part of what Grayson sent out today. (All the italics in his message have been lost.)
“Every once in a while, you can see Mitt Romney lapse into some artificial-vanilla-flavored, white-bread, apple-sauce lie. Newt’s lies are totally different. Newt’s lies are psilocybin-laced, psychedelic, eighth-dimension lies. In fact, it just does not do them justice to call them lies. They’re delusions.
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the first ingredient for the witches’ brew that the witches use to cast an evil spell is “eye of newt.” Today, in American politics, the first ingredient is “mouth of Newt.”
As for public service, I’m going to turn this missive over to Newt, so you can see for yourself. Here goes:
“In Washington, D.C., 800 babies are left in dumpsters a year.” Actually, there were four, during one year.
People can use food stamps “for anything,” including “to go to Hawaii.” Uh, no. They’re food stamps, not vacation stamps.
When the United States “first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything.” Actually, everyone who earned over $4000 paid the tax.
“We must expect the Soviet system to survive for a very long time. There will be Soviet labor camps and Soviet torture chambers well into our grandchildren’s lives.” As Rick Perry might say, “oops.”
“For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt.” Actually, during Gingrich’s four years as Speaker, the federal debt grew by more than $800 billion.
“The Clintons are counterculture McGovernicks.” And Ron Paul is my Secret Santa.
“Up to 25% of the White House, when they first came in, had used drugs within the past 4 or 5 years.” Fabrication’R’Us.
“Most People don’t realize it’s illegal to pray in school, most people somehow think that’s not true.” Because it’s not true.
“We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor.” Actually, defense spending in 2010 was a higher percentage of GDP than in any year since 1991. So not just wrong, but wrong for 19 years in a row.
The 2009 American Recovery Act “is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups.” Well, it’s 2011, and that hasn’t happened yet.
The Affordable Healthcare Act creates what “would, in effect, be death panels.” Oh, please. Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich – great minds think alike.
The Dodd-Frank Act “establishes a mandatory 20 percent down payment to buy a house.” Politifact: “There is no such requirement.”
“I never favored cap and trade.” Except on national TV.
“The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.” In his campaign, maybe.
If Newt Gingrich does win the Republican nomination, then next year, we can choose between one candidate who has won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and another candidate who is constantly seeking the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.