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August 18, 2014 11:08 AM UTC

Democrats To Bob Beauprez: Ditch Rick Perry's Endorsement

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

​New Democratic-aligned message group Making Colorado Great, which is focused on the gubernatorial race this year, put out a release this morning calling on GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez to renounce his recent endorsement by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Perry, as you may have heard, was indicted last week on felony charges relating to alleged abuse of power. Excerpt from today's release:

"We call on Beauprez to immediately renounce his endorsement by indicted Texas Governor Rick Perry," stated Michael Huttner, spokesman for Making Colorado Great.

Perry, who was indicted on two felony counts of abuse of power last Friday, endorsed Bob Beauprez during the Republican primary on May 20, 2014.

Bob Beauprez continues to tout Perry's endorsement -– even more than that of Mitt Romney–on his official campaign website.

On his official campaign website Beauprez states he is "proud to receive the endorsement of conservative Governor Rick Perry this morning…Rick Perry is a good man and an outstanding Governor."

Beauprez isn't the only Colorado Republican candidate with Rick Perry baggage in tow: Rep. Mike Coffman was an early endorser and state chair of Perry's train wreck 2012 presidential campaign. The charges against Perry stem from actions he took against a district attorney whose office oversees the state of Texas' Public Integrity Unit–the office responsible for policing public corruption, and due to its location generally controlled by Democrats. Perry vetoed the funding for the public corruption unit after the DA in question pled guilty to a DUI. As of now, Perry's Republican allies are staunchly defending him–but depending on how only the second indictment of a Texas governor in 100 years unfolds, Perry could become a problematic association for any Colorado Republicans who have invoked his name.

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27 thoughts on “Democrats To Bob Beauprez: Ditch Rick Perry’s Endorsement

  1. With GOPers tripping over themselves to stick up for Perry, they'd better hope they're right and it's just politics. If it's just politics why haven't there been more indictments in the last 100 years?

    And what about this office's investigations? That's what Perry was really trying to stop.

  2. I have very few reasons to stand with Rick Perry.  This indictment is one of them.  Trying to fire a DA who is a drunken driver is one of the very few things he has done right.

    1. If he had only called for her resignation that would have been legal.

      If he had only vetoed the budget for her office that would have been legal.

       

      But when he linked the two … resign or be eliminated … he committed two crimes. 

      1. Kick,

        Implicit in the right to veto something is the right to announce you will veto something unless something else is done.

        Obama threatens to veto laws passed by the house rather frequently.

        Rational people look at this as a prosecutor run amuck.

        Alan Dershowitz and David Axelrod have mocked the indictment and they are not exactly partisan Republicans.

        No laws were violated and the idiots behind the charges have signed up for a lifetime of mocking on the cocktail circuit.

        Political Cartoons by Steve Breen

    2. At any rate, the fuss about how this affects his presidential chances is pretty silly since he never had any. With or without this indictment Perry was never going to be the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, much less get elected President. I'm enjoying the indictment in a schadenfreude kind of way, though. Can't help it.

      1. It gives him a nice excuse for declining to run, or running and losing.  He was too busy defending his good name from the attacks from the socialists, the gun controllers, the homosexuals, the atheists and the Big Gumint people.  He won't be able to attribute his next loss to the big brain fart he experienced during that debate in '12.

            1. I voted for the "glasses off" photo op.  However, no one will ever come close to beating Tom Delay's booking photo w/ that psychotic smile on his face.  He looked like he was channeling Wednesday Addams.

  3. Meanwhile, Alabama Governor Don Siegleman (D) is serving a 6 1/2 year prison sentence for an appointment he made to a non-paid hospital regulatory board.

    I'm sure our resident trolls are horrified by that injustice.

    1. The CEO of Health South donated $500,000 to a political cause of the governor in exchange for a seat on the board that oversees hospitals.  this is from Wiki:

      On October 26, 2005, Siegelman was indicted on new charges of bribery and mail fraud in connection with Richard M. Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth. Two former Siegelman aides were charged in the indictment as well. Siegelman was accused of trading government favors for campaign donations when he was governor from 1999 to 2003 and lieutenant governor from 1995 to 1999. Scrushy was accused of arranging $500,000 in donations to Siegelman's campaign for a state lottery fund for universal education in exchange for a seat on a state hospital regulatory board, a non-paying position. Scrushy, who had served on the state hospital regulatory board over the past three Republican administrations, had recently been acquitted of charges of securities fraud for his part in the HealthSouth Corporation fraud scandal which cost shareholders billions.[15]

      1. Scrushy was reappointed to the hospital board, after having been appointed by three previous GOP administrations.  Other items from the Wiki article you failed to cite:

        –Serious problems with the prosecution's star witness

        –Jury tampering by the prosecution

        –Alleged misconduct by the Attorney General

        –Karl Rove's involvement insisting that the prosecution go forward.; among numerous other highly suspicious aspects of this case.

        http://www.ask.com/wiki/Don_Siegelman?o=2801&qsrc=999&ad=doubleDown&an=apn&ap=ask.com

        Now I have first hand experience on what a lying POS you are.

        1. Judge Mark Fuller (the idiot who sentenced Siegelman) is currently suspended from his bench, for beating his wife, and owns shitloads of DoD contracts all of which are Republican-based. Look up Doss Aviation here in Colorado, and you will see his name plastered all over it.

          Can you say conflict of interest and a Rove toady?

          If justice was served, Ex-Judge Fuller would be Inmate 87331-121

      2. Shocker – Democrats also have campaign finance (and other) scandals. Nobody's denying that.

        However, as far as I know, this has got to be a first -Four Republican Governors: Christie, Walker, McDonnell,  and now Perry, under grand jury investigation or indictment.

        Salon's Paul Rosenbergcalls it: "Knaves, scoundrels, extremists and panderers"

        There are more – Georgia's Nathan "Worst Governor in America" Deal and Florida's Rick "1.7 billion Medicare Fraud" Scott. California's Arnold "Baby Daddy"Schwarzenegger.

        Then there's Tom Corbett of "Just close your eyes" fame, who closed his eyes to the allegations against child molester Jerry Sandusky. And before Ohio's GOP Kasich took office, and before Bluedog Dem Strickland's tenure as governor, Republican Bob Taft left office under a dark cloud of ethics violations.

        Yet you don't see a trend, AC?

        1. That list doesn't count all of the Alabama governors who have been indited but not convicted and the ones who quit to avoid prosecution. Crooked governors go way back down there.

  4. And I'm sure we can now all count on YOU to stand up against House Eunuch Boehner's ludicrous, asisnine, baseless, groundless "lawsuit" against President Obama — right, Zippy?

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