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The third time's the charm.
That's the view of a new super PAC that wants former Gov. Rick Perry to re-enter the 2016 presidential race the same one he dropped out of more than two months ago. The group, Bring Leadership Back PAC, launched Tuesday with the goal of showing Perry there is still ample support for him among Republican primary voters, even if his second bid for the White House did not go according to plan.
"We've got the sense that he wants to get in," said Nathan Walder, a Perry supporter who is helping to lead the super PAC with another Perry backer, Ed Willing, and the chairman of Perry's campaign in Georgia, Ginger Howard.
Since leaving the race, Perry has not publicly expressed any openness to resuming his campaign. He has made a handful of media appearances, taken a road trip to California and spent time with family in his new home in Round Top. Perry's camp couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
The super PAC's efforts face a steep climb, with filing deadlines approaching and few signs that the broader electorate is hankering for the return of a candidate who was polling in the low single digits when he exited the race. Walder said the group is focusing on fundraising it wants to raise $10,000 by the end of the weekend and getting Perry on the ballot in states that hold primaries in March, such as the cluster of mostly southern states set to vote on the first of that month in what is being dubbed the "SEC primary."
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/11/26/new-super-pac-wants-perry-back-presidential-race/
NCjack
(10,279 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,382 posts)Can one void fill another void?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,382 posts)that is the one branch of mathematics that I skipped when I skipped when I earned my BS in math. It was offered my last semester during my senior year, but I had that professor for two other classes and didn't want to put myself through the hell of taking another class from him. I already taken courses in four of the five areas of math and had 36 hours so I didn't take any math courses that semester and concentrated on keeping my overall GPA above a 3.0 since I was at a 3.04 going into the semester. The strategy worked and other than getting some planter's warts cut out of my foot and getting food poisoning during spring break I had more fun that semester than throughout the rest of college.
When I had him for calculus II we only had two grades--a midterm and a final. He didn't get around to grading the midterm until about a week before the final so it was too late to drop the class. He is nearing retirement, but he still is rated as the worst professor in the department by the students each year.
madville
(7,412 posts)$10,000 this weekend.
What is the exact definition of a "Super PAC" anyway? A five digit bank account would not seem to meet whatever it is.
LettuceSea
(337 posts)Gothmog
(145,489 posts)marmar
(77,088 posts)...... he adds that Sarah Palin-level stupid to the collection of xenophobes, racists, homophobes, war-mongers, fundie nuts, Islamophobes and pathological liars in the current Republican field.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Have at it guys!
LettuceSea
(337 posts)This kid is a hoot. I think he's under 20 years old. He went from Draft Biden IL chair to Perry Superpac to Martin O'malley, back to Perry.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Smells of extreme desperation. After looking at the clown car, I don't blame them. They have no chance in 2016 imo.