Texas Donors Boost Super PAC Backing Romney
Restore Our Future, a Super PAC that supports former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, picked up a Texas-backed boost in February, receiving $3 million from Houston homebuilder Bob Perry and $100,000 from Contran Corporation CEO Harold Simmons of Dallas.
According to monthly filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission today, the Super PAC received $6.4 million last month, of which $3.2 million came from Texas donors.
Although this is the largest single donation made by Perry in the 2012 election cycle, he is no stranger to making Super PAC contributions. Perry has given $2.5 million to American ...
Comments (4)
Lea Matthews via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Don't you think it is weird that all the Reich Wing Super PAC's have Future in their names when they are try to drag us into the past as fast as they can?
Texascattleco
Lea, you are completely correct in your comment. They want to take us back not just before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, they want to take us back before Brown vs. Education and to the days when segregation was common, the days of the Poll Tax, and voter suppression of minorities.
Debbie Spencer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is that the same Bob Perry that builds master planned communities with homes that are not up to code but had his buddy pass laws saying that the people couldn't sue but instead had to use the arbitration process whose board was packed with his buddies? Is that the same Harold Simmons who bought the only license for radiation disposal from Governor Rick Perry so that he can bring all the radiation waste into Texas and store it on top of the aquifer? You know the one, the one that the Texas legislature changed the law to expand from the 3 state waste to however many wanted to send waste here?
Lea Matthews via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sounds like the same guy to me. Good way to make a lot of money to buy your own politician, rip off your clients and employees to bribe someone so you don't get punished for your bad business.