“We’ll do it whether there’s pay or no pay”, the South Carolina state director said in an interview with the news outlet.
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Rick Perry’s presidential campaign is short on cash and is no longer paying its campaign staff, according to news reports published Monday. “We’ll be able to live off the land for a while”.
However, the two newspapers cited an anonymous source saying that the issue has spread to the former governor’s offices in Iowa and New Hampshire, as well as his campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Dawson said core members of Team Perry, including himself, will continue to work, even if unpaid.
Dawson, who has worked in South Carolina politics for 40 years he says, and two political consultants in the state have been moved to a volunteer basis, which Dawson says they are “happy to do so”. In addition to the pay freeze, at least one Perry staffer was let go last week.
He is hoping to persuade Republican main voters that he is humbler and higher ready than in 2012, when his first presidential bid opened to robust fundraising and a quick surge within the polls – however fizzled amid a collection of public gaffes.
Perry’s campaign raised only $1.1 million in the last quarter and his affiliated Super PAC raised another $16.8 million.
“I’m still going to pick up the governor on Thursday, and I’m excited to do it”, Dawson said, adding, “the governor is doing well here”.
Perry is scheduled to visit South Carolina on Thursday, Dawson said, and he is still planning a full slate of events both this week and later in August.
Spokesman Lucy Nashed stated late Monday that “robust selections should be made in respect to each financial and time-related assets”.
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According to Politico, Perry’s communications director “remains committed” to campaigning in the early primary states.
