“We have made it clear we expect the PAC to shut down and send the funds back,” Deason’s son, Doug, told Politico. “Our attorney advised us that the law does allow us to refund money to our large-dollar donors – like the Deasons,” he told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Perry, the first major Republican candidate to announce he was ending his quest for the White House, cited an abuse-of-power indictment and his omission from the main stage at the first presidential debate as his reasons for quitting.