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Bay Area Houston (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... laughter (as least in the over flow room). The question was asked to John Krugh, Vice President of Bob Perry Homes who wrote the bill that created the commission and who was appointed to the Commission by Governor Perry. He just sat there with an incredibly stupid look on his face, frozen in place. He eventually got bailed out by Duane Waddill, the Executive Director, who is fighting...
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Bay Area Houston (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
The Texas Sunset Commission will be holding a hearing on the recommendation to abolish the Texas Residential Construction Commission on Tuesday Sept 23 and Sept 24th at 9:00am Room E1.030, Capitol Extension – House Appropriations Committee Room. The agenda can be found at http://www.sunset.state.tx.us/81streports/agendas/sept_23.pdf What is this about? The Sunset Commission staff conducted a study...
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South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Homeowners have to go through the process before going to court, but don't trust the agency, the staff report said. “No other regulatory agency has a program with such a potentially devastating effect on consumers' ability to seek their own remedies,” it said. Documents obtained under the Texas Public Information Act and interviews with more than four dozen San Antonio-area homeowners or their attorneys...
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Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... to forestall lawsuits against homebuilders, including a homebuilder - the infamous “Swift Boat” Bob Perry owner of Perry Homes - that’s been bankrolling GOP candidates in Texas and nationwide. And if provides little, if any, protection whatsoever for the consumers it was created to protect. This particular agency, the Texas Residential Construction Commission (TRCC), was created in...
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Bay Area Houston (Free subscription) | yesterday
State Representative John Davis, a 10-year republican incumbent in the NASA area, raised only $49,000 according to his 30-day out campaign finance report , almost half, $22,500, of which came from one single donor, home builder Bob Perry. Bob Perry also financed 75% of Davis' primary race against Jon Keeney. Sherrie Matula, his opponent, raised over $125,000 in the same period, over 3...
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Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Course just because the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended that the Texas Residential Construction Commission be abolished doesn't mean it will happen. After all, there's a lot more money Bob Perry can dish out to willing Texas legislators that may convince them to.......
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Bay Area Houston (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... to comply with the law and ensure that subcontractors they use hire legal workers. Wonder what Bob Perry, the homebuilder, thinks of Senator Boner's idea? He donated $25,000 to Patrick's campaign and is not in favor of immigrant bashing. In fact Perry wrote an editorial which stated: Not only that, but immigrant workers renew and reinvigorate America. They remind us what it's like...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is the biggest contributor ($420,000) to the state party's soft-money account. Bob Perry, a Texas homebuilder who was the largest financier of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that attacked John Kerry in the 2004 presidential campaign, is the biggest contributor ($400,000) to the RGA, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
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Alternet (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... investor Carl H. Lindner and family, Dallas pharmacy magnate Harold C. Simmons, Texas homebuilder Bob Perry and oilman T. Boone Pickens -- were putting their money elsewhere, either pouring it directly into the McCain campaign or sending it off to Republican Congressional races, the Republican Governors Association or Newt Gingrich's PAC, American Solutions. But all that changed when the...
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Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Last week EOW posted, Builder protection agency “hits home” in Williamson County, about some Williamson County citizens that are having trouble getting redress from the Texas Residential Construction Commission (TRCC). The TRCC is essentially an agency set up by Texas GOP, as pay back to one of their super rich donors “Swift Boat” Bob Perry, [...]
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Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
... of all the levers of power in Texas. The money of Houston Home Builder and Texas GOP “sugar daddy” Bob Perry has become legend, and was instrumental in getting the Texas GOP to it’s apex. What hasn’t become legend yet, but hopefully will soon, is what he’s gotten for all that money. The first thing, and probably, the most egregious was what Republican Comptroller Carol Strayhorn in 2006...
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News & Observer (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
A Texas home builder who helped bankroll the “Swift Boat veterans” campaign against U.S. Sen. in 2004 is providing nearly a quarter of the Republican Governors Association money for TV ads in North Carolina targeting Lt. Gov. .Bob Perry has donated $1.2 million to the association since January 2007. The listed those contributions among $4.8 million the group has available to use in North Carolina,...
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Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
This likely will be a continuing theme of the general election campaign. Austin-based Republican political consultant Anthony Holm -- a frequent spokesman for Houston homebuilder Bob Perry -- has launched a new Web site called Give the Money Back....
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Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
This likely will be a continuing theme of the general election campaign. Austin-based Republican political consultant Anthony Holm -- a frequent spokesman for Houston homebuilder Bob Perry -- has launched a new Web site called Give the Money Back....
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Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
... name. It's no coincidence that the biggest supporters of Texans for Lawsuit Reform are builders - Bob Perry, the Weekleys, Leo Linbeck, and so forth. They have been very successful at getting legislation passed to shield them from liabilities. It's great for their bottom lines, not so good for consumers, as we know from the TRCC experience. Maybe if they gave the TRCC some real enforcement...
