Rick Perry, like so many other Republicans, is a false populist. In truth, be is just as bought and paid for as any other Republican leader and too many DINOs. Like the rest of his party, Rick Perry loves Banksters, and they love him back. Thanks to the five Injustices on SCROTUS (SCOTUS are the four real Justices), Rick Perry’s Bankster love is legal. Here’s that love in action.
A top Bank of America executive was caught on camera yesterday whispering to Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), “Bank of America. We’ll help you out,” as the GOP presidential candidate attended New Hampshire’s Politics and Eggs breakfast. The executive has been identified by the financial website Zero Hedge as James Mahoney, Director of Public Policy for the bank. Mahoney is on the board of directors for the New England Council, the sponsors of the Politics and Eggs breakfast. Watch it:
But far from being just a regional banker, Mahoney is a key national executive. In a statement about the incident, bank spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told Politico the only “help” Mahoney was offering was nonpartisan policy expertise. Di Rita said Mahoney does policy and not lobbying for the bank. This unsolicited reassurance from a top Bank of America emissary comes just days after Perry appeared to publicly threaten the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke.
Over the years Gov. Perry has benefited greatly from Bank of America’s financial support, and it appears that largesse will continue as he seeks the presidency on a platform of — coincidentally enough — bank deregulation. His gubernatorial campaigns have received $125,900 from Bank of America’s PAC and executives since 2003. During the 2010 cycle alone, Perry’s campaign received $30,160 from the bank’s PAC and executives. According to Texans for Public Justice, Bank of America has also given generously Republican Governors Association, which Perry led until recently and just happens to be his largest donor, contributing $4 million between 2001 and 2010…
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Since this comes on the heels of Perry’s violent threats directed at Republican Bankster butt-buddy, Ben Bernanke, Perry must have assured his sugar daddies that he was only feeding red meat to his rabid fans in the InsaniTEA wing of the party.
Melissa Harris-Perry (no relation) discussed Perry’s Bankster love with EJ Dionne.
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Dionne is right. SCROTUS made crime legal with Citizens United.
Don’t be fooled by Mitt Romney’s apparent comparative sanity. When you cast peripheral differences aside, all the major Republican candidates represent millionaires, billionaires, and criminal corporations, not you.
12 Responses to “Rick Perry’s Bankster Love”
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I’m shocked at this – just shocked. 🙄
Sure! 🙄
Follow the money.
It leads to republicans, usually.
Birds of a feather belong together – both BOA and Perry are lying crooks!
Amen, Pope Jack!
Seems that everything in Texas is big … including “donations” to Perry from his cronies:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/07/30/3258306/texas-millionaires-and-billionaires.html
And it appears that Perry’s cronies looked on it as more that just a “donation” because
[Note the Link to the LA Times article is within the below link, which details who the top ten donors were, and how they directly benefited from their “donations”]:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rick-perrys-10-worst-crony-capitalists-0
Thanks, Nameless. Great info!
Slime begets slime– and no matter how much money they have the stink of decay and filth clings to them-
Well said, Phyllis.
It looks like President Obama has cooked his own goose, by bypassing Congress and using his administrative order, to overcome deportation proceedings. It might assist him with ethnic groups and the 20 million plus illegal aliens. However, the TEA PARTY will be avidly be watching for irregularities, in the 2012 elections for illegal aliens and others violating the US voting laws. Constituencies must be made to realize that registration and voting by non-citizens are violations against the basic principles of our Dem¬ocratic system and that such cases must be prosecuted. All states should require anyone who registers to vote to make available proof of U.S. citizenship. This requirement should be identical to the fed¬eral requirement of proof for employment using E-Verify.
This new policy is an act of indifference, allowing millions of illegal aliens to stay here, when 13 or 14 US citizens and legal residence cannot find a job Most Americans are aware that approximately 8 million illegal aliens have been hired for some kind of employment. All Emperor Obama has accomplished with this decision, is to keep the illegal alien occupation to continue. Look up on your computer the websites of NumbersUSA, (FAIR) Federation for Immigration Reform for facts and records on illegal immigration.
Most polls have demanded that the border fence be built, as designed by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) as the 2006 secure fence act; still it remains uncompleted, no matter what Homeland Security secretary Napolitano has elaborated on, in her press conferences. There are still gaping holes, you could drive a Hummer through and give passage to thousands more illegal nationals daily of –ECONOMIC–illegal aliens.
Michelle Bachmann, chairman of the TEA PARTY, as reported by the Associated Press made illegal immigration an issue in Greenville, South Carolina as part of her three state tours. Michele Bachmann is reported to have said “lax enforcement of immigration laws was a threat to the nation’s security. She agreed with a town hall audience at a Greenville stop that U.S. troops should be redeployed from South Korea to South Texas.” The report also states that Bachmann said “The problem has been in our unwillingness to enforce the laws that are on the books.” and “How do you solve it? You build a barrier, a fence, a wall — whatever you want to call it. You build it…As president of the United States, every mile, every yard, every foot; every inch will be covered on that southern border.”
This is the type of speech that Americans wish to hear about fully constructing the Southern border barrier, deployed troops to support the US border patrol. Hundreds of billions could be saved, with perhaps trillions over the years to come and halt overpopulation. The US people haven’t heard this kind of talk from Rick Perry, Ron Paul, and Gary Johnson, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and definitely no assistance from our present President. Rick Perry who has joined the long grueling races has not shown any worthwhile distinction in upholding enforcement laws, to stop the illegal alien occupation. Only Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain have shown strong characters, by determining neither are going to be intimidated by the anti-American radical group La Raza, or the open border agenda of corporate players for cheap labor, or the Imperial court of the current government for future votes. Annually the cost to financially supporting the illegal immigration invasion is rapidly spiraling upwards from the current $113 Billion dollars.
Michelle Bachmann does have a thick skin, letting the diatribe run off of her, like water of a ducks back. Don’t let her slender appearance deceive you, as she has a strong backbone and will fight against the greed, rot and corruption in Washington today and yesterday. You can listen to the usual rhetoric of this administration and even some in the Republican establishment or you can vote for a leader for the People; ALL THE PEOPLE? Voting for the usual career politicians will give America much of the same.
So what does that old quote say? “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The American people have been brought and sold behind closed doors for years.
Welcome, Brittanicus, I think. That’s quite a moniker you have there, but I can’t help but wonder whose side you were on at the Boston Tea Party.
That was a magnificent spiel, but the problem is that the facts don’t support your position. I know Michele likes to make up her own, but here we use the real facts, They demonstrate, as I have over and over again here, that Bachmann is crazy, ignorant, or lying, if not all three. By chance I have an article going up in a few minutes covering her latest whopper.