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Rick Perry Super PAC selling mugshot t-shirts

By Frances Burns
Texas Governor Rick Perry UPI/Dennis Van Tine
Texas Governor Rick Perry UPI/Dennis Van Tine | License Photo

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Super PAC is trying to turn his indictment into cash by selling t-shirts with his mugshot for $25 each.

Buyers get a twofer. The front of the shirt shows a smiling and apparently relaxed Perry under the word "WANTED" in red letters, while the reverse bears the mugshot of scowling Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg under the word "GUILTY."

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Lehmberg's arrest on DUI charges kicked off a series of events that led to Perry's indictment on an abuse of power charge. Perry allegedly threatened to veto funding for a public corruption unit headed by Lehmberg, whose county includes the state capital, Austin, unless she resigned and then did veto the funding when she refused.

RickPAC's website says the T-shirts are only available online. But a Twitter user reported they were being sold at an Americans for Prosperity event in New Hampshire.

Perry maintains the case is entirely political.

"I've got a great legal team put together to defend me and hopefully it will be behind us quickly," Perry told business leaders during his recent visit to New Hampshire.

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