AT&T spends $18,000 buying Rick Perry book

Rick Perry's Republican Governor's Association served as cashier for the purchase of 700 copies of his book Fed-Up. Dallas-based AT&T paid for the books, which were distributed to state legislators, lobbyists and activists at a conservative policy summit in December in Washington. The cost: $18,349, according to the latest campaign filing by the Republican Governors Association, which Perry heads. That amounts to $26 a book - more than the publisher's cover price of $22. Our Dave Michaels first reported that AT&T had purchased the books, which were placed on each seat in a ballroom where Perry delivered his anti-Washington message. What wasn't known was the cost.

The purchase has raised some concerns among campaign-reform advocates who note that AT&T, which was boosting sales of Perry's book, has a lot of business before the state of Texas and Texas regulators. The Republican governor and his book have been a hit in conservative circles that embrace his states rights message. Sales of the book benefit the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a low-tax, small-government Austin-based group that is among Perry's biggest political boosters.

The new filing, which covers RGA contributions and expenditures in the final two months of 2010, includes an expenditure of $39,835 to Perry's pollster, Mike Baselice of Austin. The Perry camp has denied rumors that it is polling the governor's popularity in early presidential primary states. Baselice is on contract with the RGA and says the polling he's done for the group wasn't about Perry. In fact, he says hasn't even included Perry's name in anything he's done regarding the potential 2012 field.

Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/01/att-spends-18000-buying-rick-p.html

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CBC vs. the CPC on those new ads

Well, it was bound to happen. The CBC is in a snit over those new ads that the Conservative Party released the other day. They — the public broadcaster that is — complain that their (our) intellectual property was violated when the Conservatives used footage of Michael Ignatieff in the ads. A few points need [...]

Source: http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2011/01/cbc-vs-the-cpc-on-those-new-ads/

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He's an accident waiting to happen

That's what people warned David Cameron when he hired not just any former editor of a muck-raking tabloid, but one who'd resigned after his paper created a scandal all of its own.

Today some are saying "I told you so". Some are asking questions about David Cameron's judgement. The prime minister has, though, only one regret - that a man whose judgement he has come to depend on has felt it necessary to resign.

Andy Coulson's value to David Cameron was not only as a mere spin doctor, nor as just the link man to the powerful Murdoch Empire, but also as someone who connected him to those who read, rather than produced, tabloid newspapers.

The boy from Essex was willing to stand up and contradict the prime minister's other principal adviser Steve Hilton - king of the Notting Hill set of metropolitan, intellectual and wealthy friends.

Today's resignation was meant to separate David Cameron from the phone-hacking scandal.

It will also separate him from someone with an instinctive understanding of the world beyond Westminster.

If Andy Coulson's advice is not replaced that really could be an accident waiting to happen.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2011/01/hes_an_accident.html

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Conservatives roll out new ads

In the Conservatives quest to gain impressions for their message in the news — paired complimentarily to the media’s quest to sell newspapers and television advertising — new election-style ads are out from the party. The Conservatives are explaining themselves saying that while they are focused on governing, if Michael Ignatieff is going to loudly [...]

Source: http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2011/01/conservatives-roll-out-new-ads/

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Boehner: ?Sputnik moment is ? we?re broke?

House Speaker John Boehner went on CNN’s Parker Spitzer last night, telling Kathleen Parker about what he considered the nation’s real “Sputnik moment.” ?If you really want to talk about what the Sputnik moment is, it’s the fact that we’re broke,” the West Chester Republican says. �” The American people know we’re broke and they [...]

Source: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2011/01/27/boehner-sputnik-moment-is-were-broke/

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Construction Update: The Park

Remember yesterday when snow and ice weren’t everywhere? Think back to that as you read about Katie Minchew’s tour of The Park, which she took on a warmer day.
You may think that in order to build a park you would only need to plan the layout, the landscaping, and the equipment. At least, that?s what [...]

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Pence Out, Hunstman In (Possibly): Whom Do Evangelicals Like?

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