Swift Boat Funder For Tom Delay

Bob Perry is funding the pro-Tom Delay ad running in Houston. The ad states the billionaire George Soros is behind Delay attacks. Acoording to Factcheck.org, Soros gave money to Campaign For America’s Future CC-Fund and Public Campaign Action Fund in 2004. Both groups produced the anti-Delay ad this year.

What is interesting is who is paying for the pro-Delay ad.

However, as the Houston Chronicle was first to report over the weekend, we were able to confirm that the ad is being financed by a $200,000 donation from Houston homebuilder Bob Perry. As we reported in 2004, Perry was the main source of initial funding for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth at the time they launched their attack on the Vietnam War record of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Perry gave $100,000 of the first $158,750 received by the Swift Boat group, according to its first disclosure report. Perry is probably the biggest campaign donor in Texas. He and his wife Doylene gave more than $3 million to Texas Republicans during the 2002 elections and more than $2 million during the 2004 elections, according to a database maintained by the Institute on Money in StatePolitics.

Bob Perry has donated $1,764,250 to Texas Republicans and $239,500 to state Democrats.