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?
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.
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.
Know who is writing the article. Another lefty. Politico is hardly conservative. I saw evidence of liberalism at the GOP debate the other night and the attacks on Perry.
Guess he learned from Sarah Palin's experience.
Only Palin could withstand such media scrutiny.
Well. Here comes the colonoscopy.