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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSmoking Gun? Remember how Perry kept saying there was an EMERGENCY at the border??
Houston Chronicle may have dug up real reason Perry vetoed funding
for the Public Integrity Unit (and not the fact that head of unit had a DUI)....
The Virginia firm, founded by retired Army Gen. John Abrams, initially got a $471,800 contract in March 2006 to help the state establish a Border Security Operations Center in Austin, according to state documents. The deal went through the no-bid process because officials said it was in response to "an emergency."
An internal memo that later surfaced in news reports showed that the declaration of an emergency was based on public statements by Perry, who at the time was in a tough re-election campaign in which border security was a big issue.
Three months after its first contract, Abrams received a second emergency deal, for $679,600, that greatly expanded the company's responsibilities. Over time, state records show, officials quietly added more and more responsibilities to the contracts until they grew to more than $20 million and covered work in most segments of the state's growing border-security programs.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Perry-veto-killed-investigation-into-no-bid-6021479.php?t=5ef6a4cc2829895b84&cmpid=twitter-premium
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)fact he is under criminal indictment is never mentioned?
The example of Rick Perry tells you all you need to know about the control of the mass media in
America.
How the Media Oligarths must be laughing in their media production rooms at the idiocy of the American masses.
"Holy shit, we prop up this idiot indicted felon and Idiot America still does not know if we do not tell the, too busy with their noses in DumbPhones to take notice to care."
Indicted fucking felon...how the fuck does he get on the list?
Because is is not a Presidential primary, it is a Fox News primary.
Put fucking Bush and Romney and Rubio in the same fucking stage as Perry, Huckabee, Bachmann, Carson etc. and the "moderate" Republicans look like fucking actual decent human beings. Which they are not.
Fucking Murdock may be a monster, but he is a monster with a Ph.D in propaganda.
Remember the combination of hate speech and lies that Fox News unleashed regsrding no go zones thst do not exist?
They would get away with that in America, the mistake was trying to sell it to Europe.
And "we apologize if someone might be defended" is not any apology, it is a "so what, fuck off".
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)fled Castro before Castro led Cuba???
And these same hypocrites make a HUGE deal over a Paris diplomatic slight and Obama's
girls not smiling at a ceremony.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)War crimes? Who cares!
What folks really want to know is why Obama golfs so much.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)STILL FREE. That maggot should still be in prison. Like me and millions of others he swore to
Uphold the constitution. He wiped his ass with it. That fucker.
spanone
(135,855 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)Anansi1171
(793 posts)madamvlb
(495 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)DHS is nothing more than a enormous funnel for money to flow to manipulative contractors under the guise of "terra, trra, terra"
and I hope more people are noticing.