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Juanita read Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News this morning and wished she’d have been nicer to Texas Governor Rick Perry.

“It’s not that being Rick’s friend would be fun,” she says, “but it certainly is profitable.”

Charges of cronyism and outside influence in both parties are nothing new in Austin. But Perry’s 10-year tenure, the longest of any governor, has attracted long-standing loyalists who have benefited from his years atop state government.

“Slater has done the research showing that Rick’s friends can parlay that into some major bucks.  And I guess that doesn’t even count gettin’ to go to the $10,000 a month taxpayer mansion and kicking back with cigars and wine.”

“I’m tellin’ ya, Fancy Pants Rick takes care of his friends,” she acknowledges.  “Too damn bad he has so few of them because Texans could use a little money right about now.”

And we’ve still a few shirts left to help spread the word.