Perry PAC's $1 million donor got help with nuke waste dump

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By Bill Dedman, msnbc.com, and Michael Isikoff, NBC News
with reporting by NBC's Azriel Relph and Lisa Riordan Seville

A Super PAC supporting Texas Gov. Rick Perry received a million dollars from a leveraged-buyout innovator who got Perry's help to locate a radioactive waste disposal facility in the state.

The PAC, called Make Us Great Again, reported receipts of $5.5 million, incuding $1 million from Contran Corp. of Dallas. The billionaire owner of Contran, Harold Simmons, has given to Republican PACs and campaigns since the 1980s, including those of Sen. John McCain, Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney in 2008, and $4 million to the anti-Kerry groups Swift Vets and POWs for Truth in 2004.
http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282708-perry-pacs-1-million-donor-got-help-with-nuke-waste-dump

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1. Harold Simmons is nuclear trash

He's always been trash and he will always revel in it.

The Dallas billionaire had already given more than $1 million to Perry’s gubernatorial campaigns in recent years, under the permissive campaign finance laws in Texas, according to The Los Angeles Times. The newspaper reported that Simmons won permission to build a radioactive waste disposal facility in Texas after Perry signed a law allowing private companies, such as Simmons’ Waste Control Specialists, to operate such sites. Despite objections of some Texas environmental officials, a Perry-appointed state commission approved the construction of the facility and opened it up to receive nuclear waste from other states.

If there is any justice in the world this man will die of some horrible incurable cancer.