2fer: Gov.GOODHAIR starts his own "Anglo ACORN" 2) Doesn't disdain funds from CA & NY

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9B1443G1.html

Report: Perry campaign recruiters getting paid

09/29/2009

Associated Press

Gov. Rick Perry's campaign is paying volunteers to sign up other volunteers, and it's pledging to come up with more cash for those who turn out voters in the March Republican primary. ....

Hutchison's campaign compared Perry's voter recruitment program to tactics used by ACORN, the embattled community organizing group that has long been a target of conservative critics.

"Typical Rick Perry arrogance, when his failed record can't earn him support, he'll just buy it," Hutchison spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement Tuesday. Hutchison aides said her campaign does not pay volunteers.

Democratic consultant Jason Stanford, who managed former U.S. Rep. Chris Bell's unsuccessful campaign against Perry in 2006, said the Perry program is ripe for abuse.

"It's the Anglo ACORN. A dishonest Perry supporter could create a huge scam," Stanford said ....



http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/09/perrys-cash-from-california-an.html

Perry's cash from California and ... New York City!

9:49 AM Tue, Sep 22, 2009
Wayne Slater/Reporter

Kay Bailey Hutchison might work in Washington, but when it comes to raising campaign cash outside Texas, Rick Perry is the champ. An interesting new study by the non-profit group Texans for Public Justice found that 2 percent of the money Hutchison raised for the governor's race came outside Texas, considerably less than the 8 percent of Perry's campaign cash from other states.

For Perry, who has declared himself more Texan than his opponent in the governor's race, his biggest sources of out-of-state cash are New York and California. For Hutchison, the beltway areas of Washington and Virginia were her biggest sources of outside money in her bid for governor. As for in-state cash, Hutchison's home turf of Dallas was tops in fundraising; Houston was tops for Perry.

A couple of caveats: The group analyzes money given specifically for the governor's race, but Perry has been collecting cash as governor longer than Hutchison. She just got into the race this year. Part of Hutchison's total is money transferred from her Senate account (governed by federal limits). That's analyzed separately in the report (and doesn't change things).

In one of the more provocative fundings, the study suggests women are backing Hutchison and men are bankrolling Perry. But TPJ acknowledges its effort to track gender is flawed. The problem is the way the two candidates report their donations. Most of Perry's money couldn't get gender segregated due to his heavy use of dual-sex titles such as "Mr. and Mrs. John Doe." Of the money that can be identified, women accounted for 21 percent of the cash that Hutchison raised from individuals and just 6 percent of Perry's individual funding.

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[ananda]

1. Only in Texas, eh?

I sure woulda loved to hear from Molly on this one!

lol