1.0 link 191521 <![CDATA[Rick Perry, After Raising Secession, Calls For Fed Help With Swine Flu [UPDATED]]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/26/rick-perry-after-secessio_n_191521.html UPDATE 4/27: The Dallas Morning News has a long report on a similar theme: despite his anti-Washington rhetoric, Gov. Rick Perry has raised major amounts of campaign cash -- $2.7 million to be exact -- from Washington political groups and lobbyists.

[T]he governor's financial support from the Beltway undercuts efforts to distance himself from the nation's capital by painting himself as the candidate of Texas-style government and Hutchison as the candidate of Washington, which recently landed Perry in the national...
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