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Texas grant recipients gave millions to Governor Perry

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – Businesses that won grants from a Texas economic development fund contributed $7 million to Governor Rick Perry and the Republican Governors Association, which supports him, a report by a watchdog group said on Thursday. Perry has made his job creation record in Texas a central…

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AT&T bought more than 700 copies of Rick Perry’s book

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The Dallas-based telecommunications giant AT&T bought more than 700 copies of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s book, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America From Washington, as part of a fundraising event arranged by the American Legislative Exchange Council in December 2010. Perry recently urged the Federal Communications Commission to approve…

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Gifts given to Perry include thousands of dollars of cowboy boots: report

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has spent decade-plus in public office — and the requisite public records and disclosures that come along with those years — have given the media and voters plenty to inspect about the contender for the GOP’s 2012 presidential nomination. The latest intriguing tidbit: records of…

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