{"id":5325,"date":"2011-09-01T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T23:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2011-09-02T23:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T06:50:41","slug":"fed-up-rick-perry-sucks-up-to-att-and-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5325","title":{"rendered":"Fed Up? Rick Perry Sucks Up To AT&T And Vice Versa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago Rick Perry was caught on tape<\/a> with a representative of Bank of America who offered a comforting message to the Texas governor saying that “We’ll help you out.”<\/em> He wasn’t kidding.<\/p>\n

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ThinkProgress documented<\/a> the extent to which BofA had already provided abundant comfort to Perry. He has received over $125,000 from BofA’s PAC. He has received $4 million from the Republican Governor’s Association, to which BofA was a major contributor while Perry was its chairman. In exchange, Perry has been a stalwart advocate of deregulation for banking and financial services. He regards the Consumer Financial Protection Agency as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

But Bank of America is not Perry’s only CFF (Corporate Friend Forever) He is also intimate with AT&T. He recently endorsed the mega-merger between AT&T and T-Mobile (which the Justice Department recently announced it would challenge). I’m sure that had nothing to do with the $500,000 Perry has received from AT&T<\/a> over the past decade.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Dallas Morning News reported last December that AT&T bought 700 copies<\/a> of Perry’s book, “Fed Up!”<\/em> to distribute to attendees of an ALEC-sponsored luncheon. (Read more about ALEC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“…the book purchase was arranged between [AT&T] and the American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC], the conservative outfit that invited Perry to speak at its annual policy summit.<\/p>\n

“A spokeswoman for the Exchange Council said the book order cost more than $13,000. AT&T said the sponsorship was meant to share Perry’s agenda with people who attended the summit, many of whom are state legislators from across the country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The relationship between Perry and AT&T, a Dallas-based corporation, raises many ethical and legal questions. Throw in a connection to ALEC and you have the makings of a world-class larcenous affair that suggests a slight modification to the AT&T slogan, “Rethink Ethical.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This sort of pay-to-play politics<\/a> is typical of the Perry regime in Texas. He has long run an operation out of the governor’s mansion that produced lucrative state contracts in exchange for political donations.<\/p>\n

\"Rick<\/center>
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Texas business as usual. And as I’ve said before “Perry is an evangelical huckster with no substantive record of achievement? He’s Elmer Gantry with a government job and gets his snake oil straight from the well.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago Rick Perry was caught on tape with a representative of Bank of America who offered a comforting message to the Texas governor saying that “We’ll help you out.” He wasn’t kidding. ThinkProgress documented the extent to which BofA had already provided abundant comfort to Perry. 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