Last week, Rick Perry’s campaign team told the Chicago Tribune that Rick’s fundraising was going well.  We guess.

Perhaps more than any other candidate, the Texas governor will use the upcoming trip to raise money for his presidential campaign. As the late arrival in the race, Perry has already proved his bona fides as a world-class fundraiser. Members of his finance team says “it is going like wildfire” and their California schedule backs up the claim.

Emphasis mine.  Insensitivity and stupidity theirs.

This is a video taken of the wildfires in Bastrop, Texas, on the very day Team Rick Perry made that statement.

The Texas months of June through August were the hottest three months ever recorded in the history of the United States…..

Climate Progress has noted that the Texas Drought Now Far, Far Worse Than When Gov. Rick Perry Issued his April Proclamation Calling on All Texans to Pray for Rain.  And the month after adopting that futile adaptation strategy, Perry signed a budget that devastated the state’s ability to fight fires:

The Texas Forest Service’s funding was sliced from $117.7 million to $83 million. More devastating cuts hit the assistance grants to volunteer fire departments around the state. Those grants were slashed 55 percent from $30 million per year in 2010 and 2011 to $13.5 million per year in 2012 and 2013. Those cuts are effective now.

There is no climate change.  We do not need firefighters.  And Rick Perry is raising a helluva lot of money to win the Presidency.  That should be a great comfort to you.

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.