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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 08:29 AM Jan 2015

Smoking 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)....

Officials said the earlier Public Integrity Unit investigation focused on more than $20 million in no-bid contracts given to Virginia defense contractor Abrams Learning and Information Systems Inc. to help Texas develop its border security strategies.

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
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Smoking Gun? Remember how Perry kept saying there was an EMERGENCY at the border?? (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2015 OP
How is a fucking indicted politician still touted as a fucking Presidential candidate while the Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #1
And war criminals like Cheney be on TV, and liars like Rubio who claimed his parents Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2015 #2
Good thing we have our free speech rights to level the playing field, right? Cheney, Bush? Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #3
And that goddamned Traitor, ollie north is DiverDave Jan 2015 #5
k&r... spanone Jan 2015 #4
IQ test not required. GeorgeGist Jan 2015 #6
Kick N Rec-nt Anansi1171 Jan 2015 #7
Oooops!!! madamvlb Jan 2015 #8
K&R. Overseas Jan 2015 #9
Glad to see this is in the Houston newspaper. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2015 #10
Perry's got big balls though - wants the federal govt to pay Texas back. nt Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2015 #11

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. How is a fucking indicted politician still touted as a fucking Presidential candidate while the
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 08:39 AM
Jan 2015

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)
2. And war criminals like Cheney be on TV, and liars like Rubio who claimed his parents
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 08:46 AM
Jan 2015

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)
3. Good thing we have our free speech rights to level the playing field, right? Cheney, Bush?
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 08:52 AM
Jan 2015

War crimes? Who cares!

What folks really want to know is why Obama golfs so much.

DiverDave

(4,886 posts)
5. And that goddamned Traitor, ollie north is
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 10:03 AM
Jan 2015

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.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
10. Glad to see this is in the Houston newspaper.
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 11:48 AM
Jan 2015

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.

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