| Evidently Rick Perry and Carole Strayhorn are suffering from bouts collective, selective Alzheimer's Disease. That's the only reasonable explaination for their comments.
After all, it's unreasonable to think that that pair has forgotten about 1998.
Ah, yes. 1998: The year the iMac was released, Ginger Spice left The Spice Girls, Google is founded, MySpace is launched, Clinton is impeached, Exxon and Mobile decide to merge, and the Yankees win the World Series.
Oh. And the year James Leininger split $1.9 million between Carole Keeton Strayhorn (then Rylander) and Rick Perry.
Yep. Rick Perry and Carole Strayhorn seem to have quickly forgotten the $1.1 million and $900,000 loans James Leininger co-signed for them days before the election to help propel them onward to higher office.
Of course, those loans weren't all. Over the years, Leininger (and, of course Bob "Swiftboat" Perry) are responsible for pouring hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars into both the Perry and Strayhorn campaigns. Of course, Leininger's done it not only in his own name but also through more than half a dozen political action committees, some of which form and dissappear after one or two election cycles.
I just don't get it. Leininger, who is clearly trying to buy an administration that is pro-voucher and anti-tax loans their campaigns tons of money and makes massive contributions on a regular basis, and that's ok. Bob Perry, who spent thousands upon thousands just for the government to make it harder for people who buy his houses to sue him, can give millions and that's ok.
But, John O'Quinn, who has no agenda nearly as radical and no axe to grind tries to level the playing field and Strayhorn and Perry start behaving as though the floodgates of Hell have opened and money has started pouring out.
It's hypocritical. Chris Bell could find ten John O'Quinns, and a repeat of 1998 would happen. Don't think for one minute that Leininger would let Bell jump ahead in fund-raising without co-signing a loan or writing a six-figure check. |
