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Part of me agrees with your information...But you have to ask yourself this question...

I was aware of Perry's precious taxpayer funded webcams at the time, but I have to ask myself this question now that I look back at the timing:

Bush's Department of Homeland Security cut their funding to Texas by 30% less than 6 months before the Governor's election in 2006. Bush is doing this as the former Governor of Texas, who is aware of just how leaky our border is, and this is less than 5 years after 9/11, at a time when we should have already secured our border, but didn't. At the same time Perry announces the webcams which we all knew would not and did not work at protecting the border. Both of these things, the budget cuts and the webcams, hurt our border security, and both happened at a time when Perry was in trouble - remember, he got less than 40% of the vote in the general election.

I have to ask, was the effort to hurt our border security in the summer of 2006 tied to the Governor's election?

Certain groups were protesting efforts to secure our border and were working on registering voters and then in the summer of 2006 Perry announces the feds are cutting funding and he's putting up webcams instead of putting the money into physical security. That's kind of odd....