Perry Cavorts With Contributors

Dear Editor,
   Gov. Perry – with his wife, his staff, and his largest GOP contributors – flies off on a private plane to a sumptuous resort in the Bahamas. He calls it a three-day working retreat to discuss public school financing in the state. If he had been truly interested in financing the schools, he could have discussed the issue in Austin and donated the cost of the trip to the education fund. Sadly, people like Rick Perry and his corporate collaborators have so little respect for the intelligence of the average citizen that they actually think we're fooled by their chicanery. Isn't this precisely what Ralph Nader is talking about when he says this government is bought and paid for by corporations? The really scary part is that the public is being apprised of this behavior, yet it doesn't seem to have any effect on the politicians who arrogate to themselves the right to be corrupt.