Swift Boat Vet Financier Dumping Huge Money Into Key Senate Race
Bob Perry, the wealthy businessman who bankrolled the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth to the tune of several million dollars, has a new cause: He's lavishing huge funds on the conservative group Club for Growth, which is in turn putting big money behind GOP candidates in key Senate races.
Perry has just plowed a whopping $400,000 into the coffers of the Club for Growth, the big right-wing group that advocates for conservative economic policies, the latest FEC records show.
Club For Growth, in turn, is now spending about $227,000 of that money to air an attack ad in Colorado against Mark Udall, who is the presumptive Dem nominee is going up against scandal-plagued GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer. The battle is playing out in a state where Dems have made strong gains after many years of Republican dominance.
Polls show Udall leading Schaffer by a fairly consistent margin in the mid-single digits. So Schaffer will be relying on wealthy funders like Perry to be funding, via Club for Growth, attack ad campaigns that just might enable him to hang on to his seat despite the scandals engulfing him.
At any rate, the big Swift-Boat-Vet financier now has a new cause.
Believe Schaffer is not a Senator yet, and hopefully never will be.
August 12, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Particularly when his son advocates for slavery because it "gets shit done."
August 12, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
And maybe Perry is hoping Schaffer will help him use slave labor to build his crappy cookie-cutter housing developments in Houston.
August 12, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
this swift boat guy is getting annoying. But, I dont think the swift boat vets have as much power as they did before, because people see them for what they are...liars.
Raw footage: teen takes bath in BurgerKing Sink
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August 12, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Both Udall and Obama are getting a consistent 47% in Colorado polls. That 47% is solid. It's not a bad position, especially considering that the convention is in Denver. Also, look for Bob Barr to take some libertarian votes from Angry John.
August 12, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a moron! Watch him dump $400k on this race and with the bump Udall will get after Obama's convention it will be money down the drain. Just think of how McCain could have put that money to good use, with more Caucasian persuasion invasion commercials!
August 12, 2008 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Club for Growth: Steve Moore's blunt instrument.
August 12, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does this mean that Mr Perry now supports forced abortions , child labor , and sex slavery -because that is exactly what was going on in the Northern Marianas -and with Con. Scaffer's full throated support ...
The hyprocrisy & hubris of the right wing is staggering ...
August 12, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Club for Growth also put a lot of money into the New Mexico GOP primary -- where their candidate (Steve Pearce) now faces Mark Udall's cousin, Tom.
I'd expect to see CfG go up here in New Mexico as well.
ALSO, Perry gave a massive amount of funding to the New Mexico Republican party.
August 13, 2008 2:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Club for Growth
A metaphor for a fucking tumor.
August 13, 2008 8:07 AM | Reply | Permalink