http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/politics/100410-newspaper:-perry-donors-benefited-from-tech-fund
Are Texans really that narrow minded? I mean how many of these stories have to come out before we decide to do something?
Do you think that if he was still a Democrat and the same exact thing was going on would he be given the free pass he has been getting for years?
I ask because we have had story after story where Perry has just done borderline illegal things but it has all be swept under the rug. Take the shots in teen girls, the toll roads, the mishandling of state funded grants? If the administration in Washington did this stuff there would be a lynch mob. Why the double standard?
State Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, sponsored the bill that created the technology fund in 2005. She said that she would be willing to eliminate the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker from the decision-making process if the grant-awarding process had become tainted by political associations.
"It would be preferable to getting rid of the program as a result of what is being uncovered," she told The News.
One grant that outraged state lawmakers was Perry's $50 million tech grant to Texas A&M, his alma mater.
"There were many in the Legislature following that act that wanted to get rid of the whole program," Shapiro said.
Are Texans really that narrow minded? I mean how many of these stories have to come out before we decide to do something?
Do you think that if he was still a Democrat and the same exact thing was going on would he be given the free pass he has been getting for years?
I ask because we have had story after story where Perry has just done borderline illegal things but it has all be swept under the rug. Take the shots in teen girls, the toll roads, the mishandling of state funded grants? If the administration in Washington did this stuff there would be a lynch mob. Why the double standard?