Bob Perry (swiftboat liars ffor truth). Hypocrite of the year.

[johncoby2]

Andrew Wheat of Texans for Public Justice wrote an OUTSTANDING article on Bob Perry "A Homeowner Nails Bob Perry" at http://www.mollyivins.com/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1953

Perry lost a HUGE arbitration award to the tune of ~$800,000 which he has not paid for over 2 1/2 years. He is now whining...uh...appealing the award because arbitration was unfair and biased.

Sorry, but what a damn hypocrite! His industry has been the ONLY supporter of the use and abuse of arbitration and now he is whining about it when he loses.

You can read the entire arbitration award at http://www.hadd.com/documents/perry.pdf

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John R. Cobarruvias
Homeowners Against Deficient Dwellings
[email protected]
http://www.hadd.com

[jedr]

1. Hell has a special place for the swift boat liars;

In the grand Karma, what goes round comes round!

[sonias]

2. Excellent article John

This special-interest coup prompted Rep. Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), to tell the Austin American-Statesman, "In Texas you can buy your own state agency, then regulate yourself."
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I hope the Culls prevail and finally get that award. We know it would be pocket change for bob "sleaze: perry anyway.

Check out the Texas Observer blog entry for 5/16 where surprise, surprise Senator Robert Duncan takes a swipe at the building industry.

http://www.texaslegislatureobserved.com/
Monday, May 16, 2005
A testy exchange broke out this afternoon in, of all places, the Senate Nominations Committee. That noted revolutionary, Sen. Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock), had it out with the homebuilding industry, er, the Texas Residential Construction Commission--it's so hard to tell the difference these days. The TRCC--the new state agency tasked with regulating the homebuilders--is run by and for the homebuilding industry. In fact, Bob Perry's right-hand man, John Krugh, wrote much of the bill that created the TRCC and was appointed as one of its commissioners by Gov. Rick Perry (no relation to Bob Perry, at least genetically). You remember ol' Bob, the Houston homebuilder and Republican sugar daddy (more than $4 million in 2004 campaign contributions). Krugh and his eight fellow mostly builder-affiliated commissioners are up for Senate confirmation and hence their appearance before the nominations committee.

(snip)
The Lubbock Republican then launched a general broadside against the TRCC, saying that the commission was "stacked" in favor of industry. "(TRCC) appear(s) to the public to be a regulatory body, when in fact, the people really being regulated are the consumers, not the builders," Duncan said. This elicited a sharp response from Commissioner Paulo Flores, who insisted that he is, in fact, not "in the pocket of the building industry."
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Not that I have any faith that the nominations will be blocked

Sonia

[johncoby2]

3. I love DU!

Great info! Can we voice our opinion on these nominations?

[sonias]

4. John I'm sure you can

Nominations are like any other piece of legislation. Your organization should definitely contact Robert Duncan's office and tell him you support his efforts to diversify this agency by adding some consumer advocates to it. And tell him you oppose every one of those industry nominations.

Sonia