[Firestarter]

As Governor of Texas, Rick Perry already showed his entanglement with corporate cronyism (what is pay to play?).
In one of those strange coincidences, Perry’s former campaign manager Jeff Miller is now a lobbyist for Alex Cranberg’s company and visited Perry’s Energy Department more than 10 times.

Governor Perry always treated his donors kindly.
By 2010, 20 of the 55 companies that received grants from Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund had donated to his campaign or his Republican Governors Association. Those companies had donated (only) $2.2 million but received a windfall of $175 million in taxpayer money.
One $30 million grant even went to an energy group that never existed.

In 2011, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, who had donated $1.2 million to Perry, got his radioactive waste dump approved, even though some staffers strongly objected.

Of the almost 4,000 appointees by Governor Perry, more than a quarter were political donors. From 2001 to 2010, those 921 appointees (some got multiple jobs) gave Perry more than $17 million, about 20% of the total Perry’s campaigns raised since 2001: https://www.texasobserver.org/rick-perry...o-ukraine/
(http://archive.is/oD8px)