Joanna points to this story by the Daily Beast's McKay Coppins, on a series of emails between David Lane, the evangelical organizer behind Rick Perry's The Response, and Christian radio executive Dick Bott, about the former's upcoming interview with Perry endorser, the anti-Mormon Robert Jeffress.
The story hints at, but doesn't deliver, on the suggestion that Lane coordinated with the Perry campaign to get Jeffress to step out with his anti-Mormon diatribe: "The emails raise questions about whether Jeffress’s anti-Mormon rhetoric was a deliberate strategic move by the campaign, or simply the prerogative of an independent pastor expressing a widely held view among evangelical Christians."
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