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Gothmog

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2. Greg Abbot is not running a smart campaign
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 01:58 PM
Apr 2014

Greg is making a large number of mistakes and is making Goodhair look like a genius. Here is another example. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/crooks-creeps-and-crackpo_b_5085929.html

The notion that Greg Abbott was going to become governor of Texas without much of a fight has quickly disappeared into a smog of bad decisions. The state's attorney general, who has recently been defending a public education plan derived, in part, from the dissertations of a gender and racial elitist, keeps making disturbing choices that create more doubt than confidence.

And one of his worse, thus far, has gone without notice.

A key strategist of Abbott's campaign team is a confessed criminal who admitted money laundering to circumvent Texas campaign finance laws. John Colyandro, who began his political career writing direct mail pieces for Karl Rove, is Abbott's director of policy. He was also a central figure in a scheme that funneled corporate dollars into Texas legislative campaigns in violation of state law.

Colyandro, in fact, admitted in a November 2012 plea bargain that he executed an exchange of $190,000 in corporate cash with the Republican National Committee (RNC) to get around the Texas law that prohibits corporations from making direct contributions to political campaigns. The money was sent to the RNC and then the exact amount was returned by the organization for distribution to Texas GOP candidates.

In addition the above stupidity, Greg campaigned with Ted Nugent, bungled the equal pay issue and is citing a known racist as the authority for his education policy.
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