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In reply to the discussion: 'California is looking at our backside,' Texas Gov. Rick Perry says in San Francisco [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)and said it often.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rick-perry-molly-ivins
Here's one gem from that link about Perry and Enron. Many more there:
During the "grand old slugfest" between incumbent Perry and the Democratic challenger, Tony Sanchez, Ivins highlighted Perry's misleading smear campaign against his opponent, as well as his eyebrow-raising deployment of the word "coincidental":
This, in turn, brings up the interesting role of coincidence in the life of Gov. Goodhair. Last summer, the Guv appointed an Enron executive to the state's Public Utilities Commission and, the next day, Perry got a check for $25,000 from Ken Lay. He explained this, to everyone's satisfaction, as being "totally coincidental."
How I wish she were still here to give him another well-earned ripping.