Posted on 09/15/2011 1:38:41 PM PDT by McGruff
Gov. Rick Perry’s straight talk may have made him an instant star of the Republican presidential field, but even some of his supporters say his frank one-liners don’t reflect his governing style in Texas, where Perry has been criticized as one of the most secretive governors in the country.
At home, Perry has fought for years to keep even mundane details of his schedule, spending and decision-making away from reporters and the public.
He faces pending lawsuits over his office’s refusal to release travel records and a clemency review for a since-executed inmate. He’s under pressure from open government advocates to release his full schedule. And in response to a once-lonely quest by a Wisconsin blogger, Perry’s office has temporarily stopped its practice of deleting emails after a week.
And late last week, his team quietly finalized the settlement of an ethics complaint that accused his campaign of hiding how hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions were spent at his taxpayer-funded mansion on flowers, food, drinks and party supplies.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Good. Good for him. Screw the media.
I’ll let others smash this...I gotta go to work.
Like you are going to learn that from Ben Smith at the Politico??
Ah so he won’t be revealing all his emails? And how many perks he took as that ‘poor’ boy from rural Texas... Got to love politics.
Your a brave man, McGruff and an accurate one....lol
I will vote for his record. I am not very concerned with the lamestream media hatchet jobs and I expect many more of them. When they are crying “he does not tell us everything he does” they must be running out of more substantial stories.
Politicians are politicians and Rick Perry is a pretty astute politician based on his record. From what I can tell, he has been scrutinized pretty hard during his lengthy tenure by the liberal Austin media, the Bush/Hutchinson camps, and the national media. His warts are pretty well known and he has already been vetted much more than Obama was.
Why is Politico not as concerned with Obama’s meetings, his family travel budget, or the fact he is campaigning so much on the taxpayer dime?
OMG, not another homeless governor...
This coming from an Obot like Ben Smith . . .
Politico? Stoopin to new lows I see.
So Perry is not being allowing the liberal media to run roughshod over aspects of his Governorship.
GOOD!
Screw the bastards!
When even the left-wing folks at Politico feel they have to put a question mark at the end of their headline to protect themselves from a slander suit, you know you are about to be fed a bunch of random accusations with no substance.
Like how an ‘ethics complaint’ filed by a left-wing advocacy group is being “quietly” worked on — not by Perry, it’s against his campaign staff. Except we know all about it, so it’s not quiet. The complaint not being about tax dollars being misused, or the governor mishandling his job, but about campaign expenditures. But not whether items at the executive mansion can be paid for with private campaign donations — that is Fine.
It was just that the campaign reports weren’t “detailed” enough. They reported all the expenditures, but lumped them into a too-vague category. They have agreed to break out the details, and the campaign was not fined or punished.
Or how “e-mails are deleted after 7 days”, rather than an actual finding that the deletions violated law; or mentioning (until the 2nd page) that the policy was actually put in place before Perry became Governor, so he simply kept the same records retention policy that he found when he arrived.
The most “factual” complaint in the article is that he doesn’t release his daily schedule. I’d probably make fun of him for that if I lived in Texas, but it’s hardly earth-shattering — has the Politico noticed yet that Obama’s schedule that he releases is largely blank?
You have to read paragraphs in before you find that Texas is pretty good on sunshine laws, that Perry has taken many actions to open up government so people can see where the money is being spent.
And you find that he doesn’t travel on the taxpayer’s dime.
And the security team used taxpayer-funded scuba gear in 2004 when his family was on vacation in the Bahamas.
Do you professional split hairs?
Politico, Politico....
Do da name “Barack Hussein Obama” mean anything to ya?
Check him out, ‘tards.....
On liners will do for now.
Don’t want to blast the Perry haters too fast.
You sound EXACTLY like his Democratic opponents in the last election.
Bill, is that you?
Think about your reaction. IN a real world would old BJClinton mention word one about who provided him a vacation spot or who he got to fund his library, or a homestead? You are over your head and are a willing receiver of deception.
Playing the class envy card is not conservative, let alone Conservative.
Get some facts on the governor’s mansion and related expenses.
It is another BFD issue.
The only people raising this issue are the ones desperate for mud to fling at Perry.
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