Bwah-HAH!1 Governor Goodhair out of cash to pay staff, will have to fly Commercial & no entourage
Not like how he used time out of state and state pay for bodyguards in past traipsing around in his other self-deluded campaign. Plus, fun how the funding rules are bent so that a super PAC can pick up the cash slack while PACs are supposedly separate from coordinating with campaigns. Like how Jeb Crow Shrub was raising cash before announcing.
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[font size=5]Rick Perry stops paying all of his staff as fundraising dries up [/font]
.... News that Perry campaign had stopped paying its staff in South Carolina was first reported late Monday afternoon by the National Journal. News that the campaign was not paying any staff was first reported Monday night by CBS News.
The Perry campaign reported raising $1.14 million in the second quarter of this year and on July 15 reported having $883,913 on hand. The campaign is scaling down its expenditures to bare essentials -- commercial plane tickets and hotel rooms for the candidate and an aide or two -- and hoping for a breakthrough moment, perhaps in the Sept. 16 debate, that could boost fundraising. ....
“We’ve got plenty of money," Barbour said. "That’s what I know. And we’re going to put that money to use in Iowa to make sure the governor is in the top three there. The super PAC is not going to let Rick Perry down."
Barbour added, "He’s going to get one breakout performance at a debate and he’ll really jump up in the polls. Voters need to see him perform very well at a debate...This is a very fluid field, things will change a lot, and we will continue to be very patient."
The super PACs are legally barred from coordinating with Perry's official campaign. Barbour said he anticipated after the campaign's financial filing last month that the super PACs would need to step up and do some of the responsibilities traditionally handled by campaigns, such as building a ground organization. He said they have begun building an extensive field program in Iowa, where the first-in-the-nation caucuses are critical to Perry's strategy. ....
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