| I'm told that if you go around to the backside of Mr. Perks, you'll see that he's on a trailer with Montana license plates. And, if you follow the money all the way to the top, you'll find a guy named Howard Rich.
Mr. Perks, in fact, appears to be a very well traveled pig.
You are free to hold out the possibility that the big foam pig is actually one of many, that there are legion of these huge swine running loose (Hogzilla!). However, do not get mired in the details of the pig. The pig itself is not important, but only a symbol of an idea that isn't nearly as homegrown or grass roots as we've been led to believe, and funded by one guy who lives in Chicago.
P.S. We are awaiting a photo of the license plate from Michigan Liberal operatives, and are aware that, to counteract the possibility of this getting loose to the public, that the license plates are now removed.
Update! Oh noes, Mr. Perks, say it ain't so.
More updates ... below the fold! |
Mr. Perks is a homegrown hog, apparently, using Michigan as its base of operations ... before being outsourced to campaigns in other states!
HINOJOSA: And then, just last week: the judge ruled on the petitions case. Citing a "pervasive and general pattern and practice of fraud... perpetrated by paid, out-of-state ... signature gatherers" he ruled that the three initiatives should be removed from Montana's ballot. Trevis Butcher is appealing... And it turns out that even the central icon for the Montana campaign - Willy the pig - is also from out of state. Seems that Willy came from Michigan. Here he is painted up with a different logo, promoting a different Howard-Rich initiative.
Why, yes, Willy is really Mr. Perks, the foam pig Leon Drolet has been using to menace lawmakers!
And ... what's that? ... paid for with out-of-state money? The same money that was helping to fund last year's "Drown government in a bathtub" ballot initiative ... and was instrumental in giving us the term limits that have proven so disasterous to the state today and helped put Tim Walberg in Congress. Thanks a bunch, Howie! Your out-of-state money is leaving a legacy that Michigan's children will still be feeling when they have kids of their own. |
