Rick Perry’s Texas-size conflict of interest
It turns out that Former Governor Goodhair is on the board of the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Native American rights activists and environmentalists have protested the oil pipeline over concerns that it could endanger water supplies and damage sacred grounds. The project was put on hold last week when the Army Corps of Engineers refused to issue a permit that ETP needs to complete construction. But that delay may only be temporary; even before the Perry announcement, the incoming Trump administration publicly supported the pipeline.
Perry joined ETP in February 2015, shortly after he left the governor’s office. As Mother Jones reported last summer, he kept his spot on the company’s board even as he launched a presidential campaign. According to SEC filings, ETP paid Perry $236,820 in 2015. In the past, Perry’s business entanglements would have represented an unusual conflict of interest for a presidential candidate, but in this election cycle, they were overshadowed by Trump’s massive web of conflicts.
Perry’s ties to the company proved beneficial to his brief presidential campaign last year. At the same time Perry sat on the board, ETP CEO Kelcy Warren poured millions of dollars into Perry’s political ambitions. Warren was involved in both Perry’s official and unofficial campaign organizations. He served as the official campaign’s finance chairman, and he chipped in $6 million to super-PACs backing Perry. (Warren later received a partial refund when the PACs didn’t spend all of that money before Perry exited the race.)
Perry has been a vocal advocate for the Dakota Access Pipeline. In early 2015—just days before he joined ETP’s board and four months before he officially launched his presidential bid—Perry said on local Iowa TV that he favored building the pipeline, which would pass through Iowa if completed. “We probably have as safe a pipeline industry in the country as there is in the world,” he boasted.
Correction: we don’t Rick.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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StoneyCurtisll January 27th, 2017 at 20:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRfgKqsTMhM
Hirightnow January 27th, 2017 at 23:42
Well, surely, you;re forgetting the Unicorns magically making things right…
granpa.usthai January 28th, 2017 at 01:09
if he tells himself his lies long enough, he’ll believe ’em.
FACT: HRC WAS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE
trump was selected by the republican electoral.
anothertoothpick January 27th, 2017 at 21:02
What happened? Did Perry run out of criminals to execute?
Obewon January 27th, 2017 at 21:36
Can’t wait to see Ricky–Donnie pretend: ‘I’ll recuse myself from any Energy Transfer Partner stock payola, bribes, pipeline deals, bids…’-Perry, ETP Board of Directors guber.
Secty of Energy nominee RP trial by fire. ‘I’ll just hold this in the NIF target chamber while they fuse deut someth’n…’erium… 100 M Celsius? What? Rick out… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2a824cdfc9a45b23fd708097e4a461cf3e61b65d93b1bc8821afac062f31b52.jpg
Kick Frenzy January 27th, 2017 at 22:31
Dear Perry,
O RLY?
Pipeline leaks 138,600 gallons of diesel in northern Iowa
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/01/25/pipeline-leaks-thousands-gallons-diesel-northern-iowa/97051728/
Hirightnow January 27th, 2017 at 23:16
Has anyone glommed onto the fact that NONE of this oil benefits America? That it all goes from Canada to other countries, THROUGH the U.S, but not “For” the U.S.?
Or do I owe little Tiffany an apology?
Obewon January 27th, 2017 at 23:33
No Problem. Donnie says our benefit is inevitably poisoning our sacred waters, land, seas, air and kids from the border through Cushing Ok to Port Arthur Tx!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c5a59f7e4006a51486f54a01ba90892ac884bdee24a58887e1ed20eacd1558c2.jpg
Hirightnow January 27th, 2017 at 23:35
Oh…then it’s all OK then.
Obewon January 27th, 2017 at 23:35
You betcha!
Hirightnow January 27th, 2017 at 23:42
Unicorns….
Hirightnow January 28th, 2017 at 00:14
Obe, John Hurt has passed.
granpa.usthai January 28th, 2017 at 00:55
then all a terrorist would have to do is ride over from Nevada, blow out a section of the pipeline in SD and the entire Ogallala Aquifer is F’d up for the next forever? no more farming in the ‘heartland’ – no grass for the cattle in TX?
with the upcoming trade wars that are coming, that’s not going to be a good thing.
California will have to be the ONLY breadbasket for trumpland.
granpa.usthai January 28th, 2017 at 01:21
well, we know what symbol can replace the conservative christian republican’s symbol for the cross.!
granpa.usthai January 28th, 2017 at 01:25
that doesn’t seem to be the concern of the leader of trumpland who LOST the popular vote to Clinton by over 3,000,000 votes. to get some kind of idea how much that is, you could multiply the dismal turnout of the installation of the selected leader of trump land by 24X.
Buford2k11 January 28th, 2017 at 09:59
well, apparently the Koch Brothers will benefit…do they count?
Hirightnow January 28th, 2017 at 11:12
Only to a billion.Mudhead…
(pop culture reference….not an insult)
Hirightnow January 28th, 2017 at 13:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CdiJvH50Bc&t=9m7s
Buford2k11 January 28th, 2017 at 16:37
Now I remember…
Hirightnow January 28th, 2017 at 17:05
That sh*t is programmed into me…I CAN’T forget!
(vanishes mysteriously)
StoneyCurtisll January 29th, 2017 at 07:02
High Five to the Firesign Theater~!
Played the grooves off of their albums, can recite every word.
Hirightnow January 29th, 2017 at 08:54
Had a bud, name of “Bronco Zoid”, who turned me on to them in the eighties….don’t know what ever happened to him
Willys41 January 29th, 2017 at 01:15
Yeah it’s amazing: corporations get to suck the oil out of Canada & the US and then sell it elsewhere in the world and keep all the money.
Angelo_Frank January 28th, 2017 at 09:13
Republicans like conflicts of interest unless you are a Democrat.
robert January 28th, 2017 at 09:26
Oh look ⬆ Rick has a new religion
Hirightnow January 28th, 2017 at 13:46
OOOOOOH! You brought religion into it…….
robert January 28th, 2017 at 13:59
It’s harder to say his arm is in a cast so it must be a new belief
Buford2k11 January 28th, 2017 at 10:07
On a recent recon into trump territory, I found quite a bit of buyer’s remorse…or “trump-guilt”…especially in the medical community I visited with…
I try to be gentle when telling them they can help fix this by supporting Democrats…they know…that is the sad part, they knew, in their hearts, that trump was wrong….
William January 28th, 2017 at 10:32
Yeah lets put a guy with a degree in animal science and the IQ of a table lamp in charge of Americas nuclear assets . What could possibly go wrong? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/017753b1711cdaba60e5a40251d7f39d88df3127125821b51ef17bc94430aea3.png
Hirightnow January 28th, 2017 at 13:45
Nothing.
Not a thing.
Not one singul(BLLLOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHH!!!!!)
William January 28th, 2017 at 15:59
I try to think but nothing happens
Willys41 January 29th, 2017 at 01:13
Well, by the time Rickie figures out what his job is Trump will be out of office.
William January 29th, 2017 at 09:06
Lets hope so. On the plus side, unlike the other idiot from Texas, Rickie can actually pronounce “nuclear”.