Instead, he can put his campaign on autopilot while his affiliated super PACs – helmed by Mississippi operative Austin Barbour – deploy a $17 million haul, enabling Perry to regroup and hope for a revival later. “He’s doesn’t have the pole position, and now he doesn’t even have a full tank of gas”.
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“Perry needs to basically move to Iowa”, said Matt Mackowiak, the president of the Potomac Strategy Group who is based part time in Austin, Texas.
National Journal first reported that the campaign had stopped paying its six staffers in South Carolina. All however one employees member has agreed to proceed working with out pay, and Perry will probably be in South Carolina later this week earlier than returning to Iowa subsequent week, Miller stated.
“Are we raising as much money as we’d like to?” No. Are we nonetheless going to proceed the governor’s common visits each week to early states? “Yes”, Miller said.
Perry’s staff, reports MSNBC, said it will work on a volunteer basis “until the ship is corrected”. “It makes it very hard to fund increasingly expensive campaigns”, she says, “particularly national campaigns”.
Donations to individual candidates cannot exceed $2,700 but super PACs can receive unlimited amounts.
Perry’s. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former know-how government Carly Fiorina are leaning on outdoors teams to construct their identify recognition. But this is 2015, the era of Super PACs. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s ex-campaign manager and two other staff members recently left his financially troubled campaign to form a super PAC supporting him. And former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has an enormous tremendous PAC prepared to assist him with voter outreach.
Super PACs can run TV ads, print fliers and even campaign door to door.
“For someone who has been the governor of Texas for 14 years, who has become accustomed to living with comforts, it is not a comfortable way to campaign”, Mackowiak told Business Insider.
“Perry is in some trouble, but he’s not out of business”. Barbour said the groups have hired different people, while refusing to say how many are now on the payroll.
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Stefan Passantino is a partner with the law firm Dentons and the treasurer for the Opportunity and Freedom PAC, which has more than $10 million ready to back Perry.
