A Bob-Perry Conduit
Arms “Craddick D’s”
HillCo Cuts $10,000 Checks To Bailey, Dukes & Flores
PACs Move $150,000 To Democratic Allies of Speaker
$7,750 $750 Aaron Pena Edinburg Criminal Jurisprudence (C); Ways & Means
$15,308 $12,250 Kino Flores Palmview Licensing & Admin. Procedures (C)
Reps. Norma Chavez, Ruth McClendon and Aaron Pena.
7They collectively gave $1,500 to Reps. King and Puente, $1,000 to Reps. Guillen and Lucio and $500 to Reps. Flores and Pena.
American Electric Power PAC gave $1,000 each to six Craddick D’s,9 accounting for 13 percent of all its handouts. The homebuilders gave $4,750 to six Craddick D’s, led by a $2,500 to Rep. Ruth McClendon.10 Crradick D’s accounted for 15 percent of PAC dispersals from the homeboys.
Exculsive:
Aaron, are you having trouble thinking of what to say at your kickoff speech. Let me see if we can help you get started. How's this!
Hello and welcome! Thanks for coming! My name is Aaron Pena and I am a democrat. I think! Well, I am when I'm in the Rio Grande Valley. Up in Austin I am a flull bred republican. There is only one reason why I am running for re election. And that is my retirement. Do you know how hard it is to get insurance now a days, with pre existing conditions?
I need to get re elected so I can insure myself along with my family. I did great this past session. I met a lot of new friends. I brought a drug treatment center to Edinburg. I've aligned myself with people like Tom Craddick.
He's a really good guy. The electric companies are screwing you on your monthly billing. But, I'm getting some money from them. So,please understand. I extened my hand to the Republican Party and they wrote me a big fat check. Can't we all get along? I felt like my job was done last session. But, Mr. Craddick needs my vote to remain Speaker of the house. It's not that bad being a Republican. They sure do throw a lot of money to me.
How's that Aaron?
