Months After Vetoing Disclosure Bill, Rick Perry Gets a New Dark Money Group
The cover story for Governor Rick Perry's feud with California Governor Jerry Brown, his job-poaching trip to Missouri and his visit to a Maryland gun manufacturer the day after this month's Navy Yard shooting, is that he's bolstering the Texas economy by spreading the state's low-tax gospel and wooing people and businesses.
No one really believes that. What he's actually doing, according to pretty much everyone, is laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential run.
The most recent junkets have been financed by a new group called Americans for Economic Freedom, which was established in August using the $212,608 left over from the SuperPAC that backed Perry's woeful 2012 presidential bid.
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The general consensus, at least among non-billionaires, is that the unfettered flow of anonymous money into political campaigns has a corrosive effect on democracy. That's why a bill to require 501(c)(4) nonprofits to disclose major donors sailed through the Legislature this year with bipartisan support.
More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/09/months_after_vetoing_disclosur.php .
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