{"id":5650,"date":"2011-08-20T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2011-08-20T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:08:14","slug":"rick-perrys-bankster-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/rick-perrys-bankster-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry&#8217;s Bankster Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rick Perry, like so many other Republicans, is a false populist.&#160; In truth, be is just as bought and paid for as any other Republican leader and too many DINOs.&#160; Like the rest of his party, Rick Perry loves Banksters, and they love him back.&#160; Thanks to the five Injustices on SCROTUS (SCOTUS are the four real Justices), Rick Perry\u2019s Bankster love is legal.&#160; Here\u2019s that love in action.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"20BofA\" border=\"0\" alt=\"20BofA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/20BofA.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A top Bank of America executive was <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/451608\/bank-of-america-exec-to-rick-perry-well-help-you-out#more-451608\" target=\"_blank\">caught on camera<\/a> yesterday whispering to Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), \u201cBank of America. We\u2019ll help you out,\u201d as the GOP presidential candidate attended New Hampshire\u2019s Politics and Eggs breakfast. The executive has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/bank-americas-dead-drop-rick-perry-we-will-help-you-out\" target=\"_blank\">identified<\/a> by the financial website Zero Hedge as James Mahoney, Director of Public Policy for the bank. Mahoney is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/bank-americas-dead-drop-rick-perry-we-will-help-you-out\" target=\"_blank\">board of directors<\/a> for the New England Council, the sponsors of the Politics and Eggs breakfast. Watch it:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1F0RQLFybtw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But far from being just a regional banker, Mahoney is a key national executive. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0811\/Bank_of_America_official_promises_to_help_Perry.html\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> about the incident, bank spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told Politico the only \u201chelp\u201d Mahoney was offering was nonpartisan policy expertise. Di Rita said Mahoney does policy and not lobbying for the bank. This unsolicited reassurance from a top Bank of America emissary comes just days after Perry appeared to publicly <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/08\/15\/296552\/perry-on-bernanke-pretty-ugly-down-in-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">threaten<\/a> the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. <\/p>\n<p>Over the years Gov. Perry has <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignmoney.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/we-will-help-you-out\" target=\"_blank\">benefited greatly<\/a> from Bank of America\u2019s financial support, and it appears that largesse will continue as he seeks the presidency on a platform of \u2014 coincidentally enough \u2014 bank deregulation. His gubernatorial campaigns have received <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignmoney.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/we-will-help-you-out\" target=\"_blank\">$125,900 from Bank of America\u2019s PAC<\/a> and executives since 2003. During the 2010 cycle alone, Perry\u2019s campaign received $30,160 from the bank\u2019s PAC and executives. According to Texans for Public Justice, Bank of America has also given generously Republican Governors Association, which Perry led until recently and just happens to be his largest donor, contributing <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignmoney.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/we-will-help-you-out\" target=\"_blank\">$4 million<\/a> between 2001 and 2010\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/08\/19\/300026\/caught-on-tape-bank-of-americas-director-of-public-policy-tells-rick-perry-well-help-you-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since this comes on the heels of Perry\u2019s violent threats directed at Republican Bankster butt-buddy, Ben Bernanke, Perry must have assured his sugar daddies that he was only feeding red meat to his rabid fans in the InsaniTEA wing of the party.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Melissa Harris-Perry (no relation) discussed Perry&#8217;s Bankster love with EJ Dionne.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc7d34d2\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=44210021^0^517651&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc7d34d2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=44210021^0^517651&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dionne is right. SCROTUS made crime legal with <em>Citizens United<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don\u2019t be fooled by Mitt Romney\u2019s apparent comparative sanity.&#160; When you cast peripheral differences aside, all the major Republican candidates represent millionaires, billionaires, and criminal corporations, not you.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry, like so many other Republicans, is a false populist.&#160; In truth, be is just as bought and paid for as any other Republican leader and too many DINOs.&#160; Like the rest of his party, Rick Perry loves Banksters, and they love him back.&#160; Thanks to the five Injustices on SCROTUS (SCOTUS are the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/rick-perrys-bankster-love\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}