Radnofsky Calls on Texas Attorney General to Return Perry Donations

In this press release, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, the Democratic nominee for Texas Attorney General, commented on the incestuous relationship between Attorney General Abbott and Bob Perry, the Houston homebuilder ordered Monday to pay $58 million to a Mansfield couple who purchased a defective home from his company. She called for Abbott to return all of the campaign money he got from Perry - some $1 million or more.

See: Verdict in Perry case was message about court system 

The Other Perry

By Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle, 3/03/2010
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/News/Blogs/index.html/objID975008/blogID/

Since neither was in a contested primary, there has not been much ink spilled over Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger Barbara Ann Radnofsky. She's hoping to change that by raising the issue of Abbott's financial connection to controversial GOP sugar daddy Bob Perry.

Democrats know Perry as the money machine behind the astroturf Swiftboat Veterans for Truth smear operation, a multi-millionaire builder who has sunk seemingly endless cash into maintaining a business-friendly (read: kow-towing) Republican majority in Texas.

But in the last few days, he's hit headlines because of his business practices. A Tarrant County jury hammered him with a $51 million [actually $58 million] lawsuit after he spent a decade trying to avoid paying to fix a broken house even after he had been ordered to in arbitration. Perry's people claimed that the homeowners had waived the right to arbitration, and then dragged them through the court system. Seems that was a $51 million [actually $58 million] error on Perry's behalf.

In a screeching rebuttal, Perry's spokesman Anthony Holm called the ruling "jackpot justice". He then disappeared over the horizon completely when he said it was "equivalent to every single resident in Texas depositing $2 into the lawyer’s bank account." Which seems reasonable, if he believes that Perry in some way equals the state of Texas.

Now Radnofksy, noting Perry's all-too-chummy relationship with state government, and the $1 million Abbott's campaigns have received from Abbott in that time, and the fact that it was an Abbott opinion that allowed the broken, worthless, despised, business-backing and now disbanded Texas Residential Construction Commission to stay open, has demanded that the AG hand back the cash.

Hey, if he did, then Perry would only need to find $50 million to settle his debt.

[HOT would like ALL Texas politicians & judges to return the money they got from Bob Perry. That would be
all but six state legislators and all nine supreme court justices. It would sure help Perry pay this this judgment.]