DeLay ad challenges anti-Bush billionaire

[Judi Lynn]

Feb. 17, 2006, 11:49PM
DeLay ad challenges anti-Bush billionaire
Area builder paid entire cost of TV attack on Dem financier Soros


By SAMANTHA LEVINE and KRISTEN MACK
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Houston homebuilder Bob Perry is the sole funding source for a $200,000 TV advertising campaign that supports Rep. Tom DeLay and criticizes Democratic financier George Soros.

Perry, a longtime Republican donor, gave the entire amount that the conservative Committee for Free Enterprise used on the 30-second spot, according to spokesman Anthony Holm. The committee, rather than Perry, is identified in the ad as the sponsor.

"Mr. Perry felt the truth needed to be told and this was the best vehicle to do so," Holm said. "Mr. Perry believes Tom DeLay has done an excellent job protecting jobs, NASA, and our borders. He spent it as the result of the several unjustified attacks on Tom DeLay."

The ad is running on at least two television stations in DeLay's suburban Houston district a few weeks after two liberal groups aired an anti-DeLay ad.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3668654.html

[fishface]

1. Isn't he the Swiftliars moneyman sugar daddy too?

DeLay's toast

[Kierkegaard]

2. You know it.

Next, super-creep John O'Neil will crawl out from under a rock to show his support for his
"Good buddy Tom" whom he has never met.

[punpirate]

3. Maybe so, dunno, but what I do know is...

... that he's a relative of Rick Perry, the current guv of Texas.... Keepin' it in the famly is important to these corrupt assholes.

[Kierkegaard]

5. Here's some information:

http://swiftvets.eriposte.com/behindsbv.htm

[Judi Lynn]

4. fishface, what a memory! I just looked it up, found you're right on target

In one link it's written he is also a long-time associate of Karl Rove:

Bob Perry - Largest Republican donor in Texas; donated hundreds of thousands to Bush family campaigns; donated at least $200,000 in seed money to the Swift Boat Vets for Bush; close colleague of Rove in Texas governor's race; longtime friend of John O'Neill.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth_Republican_Connection

Perry's image is the second photo down the page, here:
http://www.iaccgh.com/news/2005/200506%2005.htm

Perry's on the right.(Oh, really?)

[Flubadubya]

8. Wow, he's got good hair too... just gray.

He must be related to the gov! Hah! :)

[bluestateguy]

6. Him and T. Boone Pickens

nt

[blm]

10. They always intended to swiftboat EVERY Dem who sticks their neck out,

no matter who or for what.

[ClintonTyree]

7. What is it going to take to clean up Texas politics?

Really, what can be done to drain that cess-pool and start anew? If it was confined to Texas it might be tolerable (for anyone but Texans) but Texas politics have a way of affecting the entire country. Texas' reputation certainly has received a black eye from all of these slimy GOP cretins that insist on making it the country's business. What can people do to clean up the political landscape in Texas?

[Toots]

9. Why would they want to piss off a billionaire?

Doesn't seem like good strategy to me..but I am a Liberal and we haven't been doing all that hot as of late so what do I know? :shrug:

[orleans]

11. gee, i didn't realize george soros was an "elected official" like

delay -- thus giving us reason to watch him like a hawk and criticize him as well.

like some repukie i was talking to lately. we're covering the crimes of delay, frist, abramoff, libby, nsa spying, etc etc & then she pulls this one out of her ass: "What about michael moore? he has oil stocks!" (???? who the hell was talking about michael moore--a FILMMAKER!!-- I thought we were talking about ELECTED OFFICIALS RUNNING (RUINING)THIS COUNTRY!!!

(like michael moore oil stocks would cancel out the importance of all this other republican government shit!)

sidenote: i don't even know if it's true about moore & stocks in oil--i'm curious since she brought it up and i don't know but, as i said, it was beside the point!

maybe bob perry could spend some money on a ad against moore too. what a jerk! and then maybe he could do a commercial on how people shouldn't listen to barbra streisand records anymore.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. Michael Moore owns an odd assortment of stocks....

so he can attend stock holder meetings. This was how he got into the GM stock holder meeting in his quest to confront Roger Smith in the movie "Roger and Me" .

[orleans]

15. yeah, i heard that. i don't know for sure one way or the other

but like i said before, it's kinda beside the point when you're talking about elected officials -- any "sin" on the part of moore or soros doesn't cancel out the crimes of delay & the republican party. (i know you aren't saying that--but it sounds like bob perry is and that "friend" of mine certainly was!)

(and if moore invests in oil in order to be in a financial position to afford to talk about the gops poisition which reads: we'll do anything for oil, then good for him--i really don't care how he gets it done/out there--as long as he keeps doing it!)

[leQ]

12. anybody catch that progress america voter fund ad?

talk about swift liars... these guys take the cake.

[CatholicEdHead]

17. Yes, it is all over Minnesota

They see a competitive race this fall and want to do some pre-emptive mudslinging.

[OKthatsIT]

14. THIS IS PARANOIA...Soros hasn't been seen in ages

Soros isn't even thinking about Republicans...these Whackos are losing it.

[CatholicEdHead]

18. Soros is the stereotypical scapegoat

I guess all billionaires are supposed to toe the same line, more for themselves. To break away from the "club" is unconscionable for other wealthy (or those who think they are wealthy) people.

[Lexingtonian]

16. oh, yay.

So it's time to play the Jewish Conspiracy card. Fucking pathetic and horrible at the same time.

Last fall DeLay's team was going to play the He's Going To Ban Abortion game, that was the only issue he had polling over 50% in the district. I guess that's no longer operative either, over the course of the Miers and Alito business the active support for a ban has fallen off a remarkable amount.

[high density]

19. Wow, so using your money for political purposes is only ok if GOP benefits

Of all of the people to attack, why waste it on George Soros?

[Demeter]

20. Look Over Here, Folks! Pay NO Attention To That Man Behind the Curtain

also known as "Let's change the subject, please!"

[ingac70]

21. What does Soros have to do with DeLay being crooked as the day is long??

Wow... he and his minions are really grasping at straws here!

[WhiteTara]

22. love to see what he's gotten from the bugman

over the years. Follow the money...he's a billionaire and they don't come untainted.

[madmark]

23. reps hate soros; ironic because soros is the ultimate capitalist

with respect to how he made his money. While the rank and file rep gives lip service to wanting to operate in an unfettered free market; Soros lived it in the most extreme way. His macro economic currency speculations are breathtaking. The pound collapse is the most provocative example.