D.C. reporter Jamie Dupree reported at his blog that Gingrich and Santorum still face 2012 presidential race campaign debts and that “former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, has no debt from that 2012 foray; instead he has $340,000 in cash left over from that White House bid.”
Maybe Rick Perry should use this fact to demonstrate that he’s not only a conservative in name but runs his own organizations the same way. It has long bothered me that conservatives run campaigns talking about less government and balanced budgets but very often do so in-debt — why opponents don’t hit them for such in campaigns is a mystery.
As party primary voters, maybe we should start paying attention to who actually runs their campaigns in the same financially disciplined manner in which they promise to run the country.
“Texans for Rick Perry,” Perry’s PAC that is supporting his current consideration of a presidential bid, is also in the black, even after spending over a million dollars in legal fees for his defense against charges that his veto of the funding for the [so-called] Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s Office was improper. According to the last campaign finance report, the PAC had $2,859,665 remaining in its account as of December 31, 2014,” Breitbart Texas reported last month.
Of course the question for Perry and other GOP nominee hopefuls is can they raise enough money to run an effective race. Another important thing to watch is who has the discipline to not run-up significant debt chasing after a fading chance to win the nomination.
As party primary voters, maybe we should start paying attention to who actually runs their campaigns in the same financially disciplined manner in which they promise to run the country. We might find this a way to measure the honesty of their claims.
Rick Perry runs his campaigns more conservatively
Robert Pratt
D.C. reporter Jamie Dupree reported at his blog that Gingrich and Santorum still face 2012 presidential race campaign debts and that “former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, has no debt from that 2012 foray; instead he has $340,000 in cash left over from that White House bid.”
Maybe Rick Perry should use this fact to demonstrate that he’s not only a conservative in name but runs his own organizations the same way. It has long bothered me that conservatives run campaigns talking about less government and balanced budgets but very often do so in-debt — why opponents don’t hit them for such in campaigns is a mystery.
As party primary voters, maybe we should start paying attention to who actually runs their campaigns in the same financially disciplined manner in which they promise to run the country.
“Texans for Rick Perry,” Perry’s PAC that is supporting his current consideration of a presidential bid, is also in the black, even after spending over a million dollars in legal fees for his defense against charges that his veto of the funding for the [so-called] Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s Office was improper. According to the last campaign finance report, the PAC had $2,859,665 remaining in its account as of December 31, 2014,” Breitbart Texas reported last month.
Of course the question for Perry and other GOP nominee hopefuls is can they raise enough money to run an effective race. Another important thing to watch is who has the discipline to not run-up significant debt chasing after a fading chance to win the nomination.
As party primary voters, maybe we should start paying attention to who actually runs their campaigns in the same financially disciplined manner in which they promise to run the country. We might find this a way to measure the honesty of their claims.