Rick Perry, Pensioner

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By Nathan Koppel
He may not act like a retiree, but GOP presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry has collected monthly retirement benefits for much of the year. The governor elected in January to start receiving a state employee retirement annuity of $7,698 a month, according to a federal financial disclosure made by the Perry campaign Thursday. The benefit comes on top of the governor’s annual salary of $150,000.



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Texas Democratic Party spokesman Anthony Gutierrez called the benefit “unconscionable” when state budget cuts have cost thousands of teachers their jobs. “If Perry wants retirement benefits,” Mr. Gutierrez said, “he should do us all a favor and actually retire.”


http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/12/16/rick-perry-pensioner/

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1. Texas Tribunes article

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/perry-retires-boost-pension-pay/?utm_source=texastribune.org&utm_medium=alerts&utm_campaign=News%20Alert:%20Subscriptions

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2. Hey Rcky, why don't you use this new source of income

to pay your own stinkin' rent?!

Anthony Gutierrez makes a good point ... he should do us all a favor and actually retire.

There is a new lengthy thread on this topic in another thread:

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3. That's a great idea

I wish he would pay his own stinking rent!

But better yet would be that he would permanently retire from public office.

The thing that scares me the most is that even when this a-hole leaves office, his mug is going to be all over the TV as he sells himself as the new Sarah Palin.