Wednesday, August 17, 2011

MORE NUGGETS of SALTPETER from PERRY

Here's a small note I just posted at R42012...

" Here's another missile headed at the West Texas Wunderkind. From today's Time Magazine. To wit:

In his presidential-campaign kickoff on Aug. 13, Texas Governor Rick Perry burnished his conservative credentials by attacking the idea of deficit stimulus spending. “Washington’s insatiable desire to spend our children’s inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given us record debt and left us with far too many unemployed,” he said.

Ah, but not so fast..

In 2003, Texas lobbyists, under Perry's direction, went to Washington to lobby a Republican congress for $ 1.2 BILLION for additional stimulus funds for " temporary state fiscal relief " for Medicaid. They got it.

From 2003 - 2005, millions flowed from the U.S. Treasury to Texas because of Perry's lobbying efforts and the efforts of the Republican Lt. Governor. For example:

In 2003, Texas lobbyists got an extra $ 47.5 million per year, for four years, to reimburse Texas for prescription coverage for undocumented immigrants

In 2005, Texas lobbyists got an extra $ 200 million for NCLB programs originally cut by the Senate. Of this, $ 14.5 million was directed at a Perry slush fund called Texas Innovation Program

Lots and lots of earmark money has been secured including funds for dredging the Matagorda ship channel and a Desalinization study for Freeport, TX. Evidently, the slop de jour was the following :

In 2005, members of Congress from Texas inserted a $ 1.5 BILLION program into the $ 14.5 BILLION Federal energy bill under the title " Ultra - Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources "

This money was subsequently directed to an unnamed consortium operating in the offices of the Texas Energy Center, a Perry funded project in Sugarland Texas, Tom DeLay's district

The full article is below.....but I smell a developing swamp.

Read more here.

CraigS



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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link, Craig.

The question is, will anyone on the right ask Perry about this--or even care?

My fear is that as the left raises valid questions about Perry, the right will be forced to defend him, rather than take an honest look at him. That very thing happened to Sarah Palin. As the left/MSM got uglier, her popularity within the GOP grew by leaps and bounds.

-Martha