Patrick Should Be Leery on Giuliani
Run on Million Dollar Reward Fund

Mike Hailey
Capitol Inside
November 25, 2020

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick might be getting nervous about the potential for a Rudy Giuliani raid on the reward fund that the Texan set up two weeks ago to solicit evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 general election.

After uncovering an endless well of electoral illegalities in the biggest criminal scheme in the planet's history, Giuliani could make a run on the entire $1 million bounty that Patrick has promised to pay for information that helps President Donald Trump overturn the election.

This doesn't appear to be what Patrick had in mind two weeks ago when he offered to shell out up to $25,000 a pop for dirt on Democrats from rats within their own ranks on ballot box crimes that Trump claims to have been rampant.

Patrick - a Maryland native who's been the Trump campaign chairman in his adopted state - conjured visions of secret rendezvous in parking garage basements with shady looking characters who would be dressed in trench coats and staring at the ground while taking nervous drags on their cigarettes.

Patrick might want to put the cash in unmarked bills in black or brown leather briefcases that he has an emissary deliver for the exchange with turncoat Democrats who will do or say anything for money. Masks would probably be optional for the clandestine encounters that Patrick initiates in his attempt to lure snitches out of the shadows with the goods that would help seal Trump's quest to hang on to the job that he says Democratic President-elect Joe Biden is stealing from him like a pickpocket.

But Giuliani could face at least one tricky potential obstacle in the fine print of the Patrick offer to purchase evidence of ballot box corruption if the former New York mayor who's leading the Trump legal team decides to make a claim on the reward money. Patrick astutely inserted a line in the offer that makes payoffs conditional on actual arrest and convictions for election fraud.

Patrick probably thought this money was safe in light of the fact that the U.S. election this year is being hailed by experts on both sides of the aisle as the most secure vote in the country's history. But Patrick could find himself in a tight spot if Giuliani takes aim at the grand prize even though he hasn't come up with anything to support the claims on a worldwide conspiracy aimed at cheating Trump out of power to which he's entitled.

While Giuliani wouldn't qualify for a Patrick payout without at least one guilty verdict in a voter fraud case based on the terms of the initial bounty solicitation. But the Texas Senate president could be in a bind if Trump thinks that his top election lawyer deserves a chunk if not all of the Texas leader's reward pool.

That would be a million dollars that the Trump campaign could save on the Giuliani bills that will be piling up fast with Sidney Powell expecting a sizeable cut as the lesser-known half of the crack legal team before her dumping from it late last week.

Trump shouldn't have to worry about having to compensate Giuliani for a trip that they'd planned to take together on Wednesday to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where GOP state lawmakers were planning a hearing on fraud in the general election.

But Trump didn't pull the plug on the Quaker State jaunt because he got tired of paying good money to a former federal prosecutor who'd been a great American hero and is being portrayed now in both parties as a national laughingstock. The trip was cancelled as a result of multiple Guiliani exposures to COVID-19 from his dealings with fellow Trump loyalists.

Patrick hasn't revealed how many informants he's lured into the squealer's and the amount that he'll have to fork over based on the evidence that he's compiled in the last 14 days. Patrick probably needs to keep one hand on the wallet for the time being as long as Giuliani is hot on the trail of Democratic election hijackers in a probe that's focused on a dead socialist leader in South America and communist mafiosos from Cuba to China to Philly.

 

 

Democratic Gains   2020 2016
Harris (D) +10.5% 64.5% 54.0%
Williamson (D) +9.1% 50.7% 41.6%
Collin (R) +8.9% 47.8% 38.9%
Denton (R) +8.8% 45.9% 37.1%
Travis (D) +7.2% 73.0% 65.8%
Tarrant (D) +7.0% 50.1% 43.1%
Montgomery (R) +5.4% 27.8% 22.4%
Brazoria (R) +5.1% 40.8% 35.7%
Lubbock (R) +4.8% 33.1% 28.3%
Randall (R) +4.7% 20.1% 15.4%
Dallas (D) +4.1% 64.9% 60.8%
Bexar (D) +4.0% 58.2% 54.2%
McLennan (R) +3.3% 37.5% 34.2%
Fort Bend (D) +3.2% 54.6% 51.4%
Potter (R) +3.0% 29.7% 26.7%
Nueces (R) +0.8% 47.9% 47.1%
Jefferson (R) +0.2% 48.6% 48.4%

 

Republican Gains   2020 2016
Webb (D) +15.4% 38.2% 22.8%
Hidalgo (D) +13.3% 41.4% 28.1%
Cameron (D) +11.4% 43.4% 32.0%
El Paso (D) +6.4% 32.0% 25.6%
Tom Green (R) +5.7% 74.2% 68.5%
Ector (R) +5.7% 74.2% 68.5%
Taylor (R) +2.2% 77.3% 75.1%
Midland (R) +2.1% 77.3% 75.1%
Wichita (R) +0.9% 73.4% 72.5%

 

 


New Covid Cases Per 100,000 November 27
  Texas 46.1  
1 Randall 166.6  
2 Lubbock 160.4  
3 Potter 159.1  
4 Tom Green 130.9  
5 Taylor 108.8  
6 El Paso 106.6  
7 Wichita 104.3  
8 Tarrant 75.0  
9 McLennan 70.6  
10 Parker 65.2  
11 Grayson 65.0  
12 Webb 64.1  
13 Dallas 62.4  
14 Hidalgo 58.3  
15 Ector 57.3  
16 Midland 56.6  
17 Johnson 51.1  
18 Nueces 47.7  
19 Gregg 44.3  
20 Bexar 41.8  
21 Brazos 40.8  
22 Denton 38.4  
23 Smith 37.8  
24 Montgomery 36.5  
25 Collin 35.7  
26 Jefferson 33.6  
27 Ellis 32.7  
28 Williamson 29.9  
29 Harris 29.4  
30 Kaufman 27.2  
31 Galveston 26.6  
32 Fort Bend 25.4  
33 Bell 24.1  
34 Rockwall 23.0  
35 Brazoria 22.7  
36 Travis 21.4  
37 Guadalupe 21.3  
38 Comal 20.5  
39 Hays 19.0  
40 Cameron 18.5  
       
  Severe Outbreak    
  Uncontrolled    
  Accelerated Spread    
  Community Spread    
  Containment    

 

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