Media Tries Another Run at the ‘Rick Perry Sure Has a Nice House’ Scandal
Ace says this story is pretty lame. That gets us about halfway to the truth of it.
For almost four years, Perry has resided in a lavish rental home tucked into the hills overlooking the capital city of Austin, a house that has been publicly financed to the tune of over $700,000 thus far. At a time when the language of belt-tightening drives grass-roots GOP politics like little else, Perry would likely face scrutiny over whether his personal lifestyle choices befit a candidate who has made vast spending cuts a cornerstone of his platform.
As Texas faced a projected budget shortfall last year, the Associated Press reported that state taxpayers had been billed for almost $600,000 to pay rent, utilities and upkeep on the five-bedroom mansion outside the state capital, which Perry had moved into in the fall of 2007 while renovations were being done on the governor’s mansion.
That expense is over four years, and the state would be paying Perry’s expenses anyway, since he is, you know, the governor. Additionally, the Democrats tried desperately to make this house issue stick to Perry last year. They even bought a mobile home, had their candidate declare he would live in one if Texas elected him governor, and parked the double wide downtown across from the governor’s mansion. It was also actually on the premises of the state AFL-CIO headquarters, so in their stupidity, the Democrats ended up amplifying just how in bed they are with Big Labor. That’s not a good move in right-to-work Texas. And it didn’t help them at all: Perry trounced the Democrat, and that party suffered an epic defeat statewide.
What the media is unlikely to talk about is when the governor’s mansion actually burned. It burned the weekend of June 8, 2008. Guess who was in town that weekend? The Texas Democrats had their state party convention in Austin that weekend, not far from the mansion itself. It didn’t take long to suspect arson in the mansion fire, and the only persons of interest ever named in connection with the fire are lefty anarchist types. You know, the kind who cause trouble and destroy property at WTO gatherings. No one has been charged with the arson, but it’s not hard at all to see the outlines of what probably happened. The Democrats spent their convention hating on Perry, and some fringier leftists took the hate as a cue to take direction action on their own. It’s a bonus that these lefties hate on Texas just as much as they hate on the governor.
So go ahead, media, bring up the mansion story. Just make sure you bring up all of it.
Bring up all the story? You mean not lie by omission? Sh’yahright!
Why are “anarchists” who, by definition, oppose government, always supporting Democrats, the party of “More Government is Good”?
Because they’re not anarchists. They’re Bolshevists. They call themselves “anarchists” because they admire the violence of the 19th century anarchists.
But the anarchist connection to this fire makes you wonder about the firebombing of Palin’s church, doesn’t it?
Rob Crawford!!! And what about the mysterious wildfires in Arizona…. A sheriff said it looks like arson.
Rick Perry is not the only politician who lives like a king. Actually, I think all of them do. Look at Obama and the crone he lives with. Consider all of the taxpayer-funded vacations, transportation, nonrepayable student loans, expense accounts, and fancy digs of all of these ‘rulers.’ I think they should be forced to live like the rest of us do. That means ground Air Force I, make lawmakers and presidents pay their own expenses for travel, etc. Tear up the credit cards used by these people for dining, etc. Nancy Pelosi was such a prolifigate spender that I believe she should be required to repay all of the money she wasted flying her family and friends around the nation. Come to think of it, all of these politicians should be required to do the same or face jail time. Enough is enough. These people think they are ‘special;’ I don’t.