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Perry Presidential Campaign Staff Taking Shape

by Ross Ramsey and Jay Root
August 11, 2011
10 Comments

With less than two days to go before Gov. Rick Perry officially jumps into the 2012 presidential race in South Carolina, the team that will run his campaign is beginning to take shape, top Texas Republican sources say.

It will surprise no one that longtime strategist Dave Carney will remain in his role as Perry's top consultant, and that his 2010 gubernatorial campaign manager, Rob Johnson, is now going to play the same role as the Texas governor takes his ambitions nationwide.

Deirdre Delisi, Perry's former chief of staff and currently serving as chair of the Texas Transportation ...

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Comments (10)

August 11, 2011 @ 4:03 p.m.

Holly Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Barf.
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August 11, 2011 @ 4:11 p.m.

Judy Shelton Curtis via Texas Tribune on Facebook

What about Ron Paul? Why isn't he given more exposure? He could win this election if the neocons would step back and get their clown puppets out of the way. Look at his stellar voting record, then vote for him~
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August 11, 2011 @ 4:19 p.m.

Cynthia A. Dolen via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Oh great...Dumbya (version 2).
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August 11, 2011 @ 4:42 p.m.

Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Ron Paul is an idiot. That is why.
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August 11, 2011 @ 4:43 p.m.

Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Let see. Reagan announced in Philadelphia Miss. Perry is announcing at Ft Sumter on the 150th Anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Brilliant!
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August 11, 2011 @ 6:06 p.m.

WUSRPH

What about Delisi? I assume she can not just take a leave of absence...
August 11, 2011 @ 7:30 p.m.

Lance Lowry via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Now Texans will find out what bad leadership we really have. The national media is not going to be as nice as the Texas media.
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August 11, 2011 @ 7:37 p.m.

Nancy Martin via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Surely, the national media will chew him up & show him for the dweeb he is
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August 11, 2011 @ 8:05 p.m.

Wilkins Micawber

If the accompanying photo is an indication, Perry's campaign will be a big, heavy, formless red blob.
August 12, 2011 @ 10:48 a.m.

BurningFeet

I trust this bunch will no longer be sucking on the State gov. teat, now that they have "real" jobs in the private sector? I'd like to see their resignation letters.