National Journal: Chane Hits Perkins on Past Support For Republicans

OFF THE CHANE — In the race to replace Rep. Patrick Murphy in CD-18, multi-millionaire Randy Perkins is drawing fire from fellow Democrat Jonathan Chane who is accusing him of political opportunism. Here’s the transcript of the America Rising video that was recently shot of Chane going after Perkins:

He got in the race just before Thanksgiving. He’s worth $150-$200 million. He’s given more than $2 million to the Republican Party over the last several years – including $200,000 to get Rick Scot elected. He sat on Rick Perry’s presidential PAC this election cycle. I wish I could tell you I was talking about my Republican opponent this fall, but unfortunately he registered as a Democrat the day before he got into the race. And it wasn’t the war in Iraq that made this guy a Democrat. It wasn’t Rick Scot’s refusal to expand Medicaid that made him a Democrat. It wasn’t Congress’ repeated efforts to defund Planned Parenthood that made this guy a Democrat. It was simply an open congressional seat in a district that he hasn’t lived a day in his life that suddenly made this guy want to become a Democrat. And, you know, he has a lot of money and we need to make sure we get the message out because that is not the kind of representation that we need in the United States Congress.”

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