Texas style Pay for Play arriving in DC soon!

[JimH52]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/politics/21donate.html?_r=1&ref=politics

“I know that at least some of the people who were initially approached to be regents have been later turned down because they didn’t pass what I would call a loyalty test,” said Jon L. Hagler, a prominent A&M alumnus and a major donor to the university.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

So fucking what? And union bosses and Soros own Obama.

Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn...............

 

[The Infidel]

 

[JimH52]

Perry will make Cheney and Haliburton look like chump change.

 

[kyzr]

Perry will make Cheney and Halliburton look like chump change.

It was chump change compared to what the dems got from Fannie & Freddie

 

[JimH52]

Perry will make Cheney and Halliburton look like chump change.

It was chump change compared to what the dems got from Fannie & Freddie

Link? No, you wouldn't have that, would you?

 

[JoeB131]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/politics/21donate.html?_r=1&ref=politics

“I know that at least some of the people who were initially approached to be regents have been later turned down because they didn’t pass what I would call a loyalty test,” said Jon L. Hagler, a prominent A&M alumnus and a major donor to the university.

And how is that different than Illinois Style "Pay for Play", exactly?

 

[kyzr]

Perry will make Cheney and Halliburton look like chump change.

It was chump change compared to what the dems got from Fannie & Freddie

Link? No, you wouldn't have that, would you?

Here you go helpless....
Update: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Invest in Lawmakers - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

Karl Rove even mentioned that the dems actually caused the financial disaster by keeping the crooks in power in Fannie & Freddie this morning. The dems didn't rebut the factoid.

I'm waiting to see the amount of illicit $$$$ Halliburton made, link please.

 

[DaGoose]

From the link in the OP............

Over three terms in office, Mr. Perry’s administration has doled out grants, tax breaks, contracts and appointments to hundreds of his most generous supporters and their businesses.

But because he has been in office more than a decade, he has had greater opportunity than any of his predecessors to stock the government with loyalists — he has appointed roughly 4,000 people to state posts — while enacting policies that have benefited allies and contributors.

And Mr. Perry has been much more aggressive than any past governor in soliciting money from them. According to a study last year by Texans for Public Justice, a watchdog organization, Mr. Perry has raised at least $17 million from more than 900 appointees or their spouses, roughly one dollar out of every five that he has raised as governor.

More than a quarter of the companies that have received grants from the enterprise fund in the most recent fiscal year, or their chief executives, made contributions to either Mr. Perry’s campaign dating back to 2001 or to the Republican Governors Association since 2008, when Mr. Perry became its chairman......

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