Man who helped put Green Party on Texas ballot was working at same time for Perry camp

Slater: AUSTIN – A local Republican operative who helped put the Green Party on the Texas ballot was working at the time for Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaign. Perry spokesman Mark Miner said Tuesday, as he has before, that the governor's campaign was not involved in the Green Party petition drive. But finance reports show that the campaign paid Stuart Moss for mileage while he was doing political research for the Perry camp in November, the same time he was helping the Green Party field candidates.
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District Attorney investigating GOP/Green Party scandal

Slater:
The Travis County District Attorney's Office is investigating a GOP-backed petition drive that put the Green Party on the November ballot.
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Dems say quit, Greens:
Democrats lost their bid to keep the Texas Green Party off the fall ballot. So while the lawsuit goes on in district court to get to the bottom of who bankrolled a GOP-backed petition drive for the Greens, Democrats are trying to shame Green Party candidates into quitting the race - even if they don't have to.
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No candidate's an island: But Perry allies in Green Party case own one

Slater takes us to Lake Winnipesaukee!
Democratic lawyers are trying to serve former Rick Perry chief of staff Mike Toomey with a subpoena to find out what he knows about the Green Party petition case. Word is that Toomey is on vacation, possibly on an island that he owns with the governor's chief political strategist Dave Carney.
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Rick Perry denies knowledge of the Green Party petition effort

Slater:
Gov. Rick Perry made his first public comments on the Green Party petition scandal. Democrats say a GOP-backed effort to put the Greens on the November ballot is aimed at helping Perry by siphoning votes from Democratic challenger Bill White. Asked about the petition drive -- in which several Perry associates have been linked -- the Republican governor pleaded ignorance. "I have no knowledge of that at all," he told reporters.
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Another GOP operative's name comes up in Texas Green Party ballot case

Slater:
AUSTIN — A Republican consultant with ties to Gov. Rick Perry is the latest in a growing number of GOP operatives described in court documents as helping the Green Party get on the Texas ballot.

Anthony Holm, whose political-consulting firm represents Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign and the state GOP, said Tuesday that he talked with Green Party officials numerous times in recent months about fielding candidates.
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Texas Supreme Court clears way for Green Party while it reviews case

Slater clarifies:
AUSTIN – The Texas Supreme Court kept the Green Party's hopes alive Friday, allowing the party to certify candidates while it reviews whether illegal corporate money was behind a petition drive to get on the ballot.
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UPDATED: TX Supreme Court keeps Green Party hopes alive for fall ballot

Slater:
The Texas Supreme Court says it wants to hear more about the Democrats' claim that the Green Party used an illegal corporate contribution to get on the state ballot. In the meantime, the Green Party moved ahead this afternoon and certified its candidates to the secretary of state for the fall election.
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Environmental group blasts Green Party in GOP-petition scandal

Slater reports:
A leading state environmental group says it can't support Green Party candidates because the Greens used out-of-state corporate money to get on the Texas ballot.
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Democrats urge Texas Supreme Court to block Greens from ballot

Slater:
Democrats told the Texas Supreme Court today that the Green Party shouldn't be allowed to field candidates in the fall because it knew it was being helped by Republicans with $532,000 in illegal corporate money. The Green Party contends the corporate contribution that bankrolled its petition drive was legal. But Democrats argued that it's not -- and said in its motion to the Supreme Court today that allowing the Greens to be on the ballot would reward the party for bad behavior.
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Texas Green Party files appeal to get candidates on November ballot

AP:
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Green Party is asking the state Supreme Court to allow its candidates to be on the November statewide ballot.


The state Democratic Party sued to block the Green Party. A state district judge ruled last week that restricted corporate money was used to support a Green Party signature drive and did not comply with state election law.
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GOP consultant in Arizona pulls strings to get Green Party on Texas ballot

Slater puts it together:

AUSTIN – The liberal Green Party's uphill battle to get on the Texas ballot this fall has been fueled by a surprising benefactor: an out-of-state Republican consultant with a history of helping conservative causes and GOP candidates.
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