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?