Senate Panel Has Tough Questions for CPRIT's Leaders
The embattled Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas was put under the microscope Tuesday as the Senate Finance Committee grilled the institute’s leadership on findings by state auditors and questioned whether public trust in the institute could be restored.
“I find it amazing given something as crucially important to the entire world as cancer research that an entity in its management of public monies could so shake the faith of the Legislature that there’s little justification not to just pull the plug on this and start again,” said state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo.
State auditors testified that ...
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Robert Ruiz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
more of perry's outright thievery.
Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No, it cannot. The state should not being doing this in the first place.
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Lege's vision not improved with microscope; all blind as Ray Charles to fiscal scandals...
Jim Vance
The real issue for the Lege from the Governor's and members' perspective is how to keep the honeypot going for everybody's insider big-money buddies and cronies without allowing it to once again become such an obvious and very public disgrace from being managed by indiscreet bobbleheads who didn't exercise much in the way of rationale and couldn't provide any value to show in accomplishments as cover for their largesse with the public's money. "Management reorganization" will inevitably be top of the list, followed by "strengthened controls" and "better accountability practices", all designed to fluff up the smoke-and-mirrors hand waving to enhance funding in some fashion and prevent a complete shutdown as the public might demand after the media coverage and revelations in the recent past.