Just The Mention of Phil Gramm’s Name and Everybody’s Wallet Gets Lighter and Their Butts Start to Itch and That’s Even Before We Mention Rick Perry’s Aggie Super PAC
Bud sent this about Phil Gramm, which reminds us that we need to check his PhD in economics for cereal box stains and wonder if letting his teach is all that wise. He’s been linked to 16 major financial crisis events.
And speaking of Phil and Rick and Texas A&M and financial dealings, we have this little joyful event. There has been a Super PAC formed to raise Aggie money for Perry called, because Aggies are so creative, “Texas Aggies for Perry in 2012.” And guess whose name pops up?
Texans for Public Justice, an Austin watchdog group, calculated in a report last year that Perry’s appointees to the Texas A&M Board of Regents ranked among the top donors to his political campaigns, giving an average of $113,000 each in unlimited donations. One of his appointees was Wendy Lee Gramm, wife of Phil Gramm, whose 2002 U.S. Senate campaign transferred $610,000 to Perry, according to the report. Phil Gramm is now a professor at Texas A&M.
Just what we need, Wendy and Phil Gramm buying their way back into the White House. That was sarcasm. We don’t need that. At all. In fact, it would be awful. The odor alone will kill people.
If Rick Perry gets elected, you’re giving Phil Gramm the keys to Fort Knox.