Perry's Spare Schedule Feeds Transparency Concerns
The governor who considers himself one of the state’s hardest workers has few official records to back up that claim — especially compared to the detailed schedules kept by his fellow big-state governors, which were obtained by The Texas Tribune through open records requests.
Gov. Rick Perry's Democratic opponent, former Houston mayor Bill White, criticized the Republican incumbent in June for "working part time" after his schedule for the first six months of 2010 showed an average of seven hours of state work per week and 38 weekdays with “no state scheduled events.” Perry responded that he simply doesn ...
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Texas Tribune via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Explore the schedules with DocumentCloud: http://trib.it/dvntqv
Cynthia Casper Robertson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
More valid talking points as to why Perry needs to be voted out in November. Quite the example . . . . he thinks he's above the law.
Fred Goodwin Mba via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Travis: and neither is Perry running against Arnold, Paterson or Crist -- so what's your point?
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is Schwarzenneger, Paterson and Crist running against Perry?
Dusteen J. Barber via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Y'all *could* have put Medina or Huchison ahead in the primaries...but only about 4 million Texans bothered to vote in that election at all...and that's about the same as the number who bothered to vote for the Railroad Commissioner (and his post was entirely uncontested so he'd have gotten it by default).
Now come fall we have to decide between keeping Perry or risking ending up with a blasted Democrat if we split the vote between Perry and Glass.
So...Perry's *going* to win in 2010, because no sensible Texan in these times will risk a Democrat win.
NEXT Primary election - pick someone other than Perry and support him/her for the Republican candidacy!
Amy Sharp via Texas Tribune on Facebook
not surprised.
Cynthia Casper Robertson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@ Mac Mcclure . . . .dude . . . .you really do lack insight don't you? Sheesh.
John Jordan
Nice work.
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Cynthia do you mean I am not a liberal? Do you mean I think government is not the solution but the problem. Or do you mean because I grew up in Kansas City I don't understand the worlds problems. By the way Cynthia, I did grow up in Kansas City. Great place to say you are from.
Joyce Langley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I kinda liked this headline :Business deals eclipse governor's race @http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7167154.html ...Politicians seem to be becoming professional liars .
Fred Goodwin Mba via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Elise (author of the article): when not keeping and posting time reports becomes a media-created campaign issue, that tells me you guys are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Gary Lees via Texas Tribune on Facebook
His policy of deleting its e-mails every seven days....Bush did it too!!
Doesn't look like he's too busy to be on the 'gulf coast governors" conference calls, but he leaves those to his staff??!!
DEBATE BILL WHITE!!
Or has the 'endorsement' by the Texas "chicken" farmers said it all!!!
VOTE BILL WHITE
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
After all of Perry's appeals to Bill White to release his tax returns, this concealing of public information is tremendously hypocritical.
And the policy of deleting emails after only seven deals is indefensible. What possible reason could there be for such a short life span? There's no reason to delete them after any conceivable number of days: retention of already-digitized data is quite cheap.
Ugh.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
oops, deals -> days
Charles Bloom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm sure Rick's List includes state time spent in the bathroom ... thinking.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Fred, the author of this article is exposing and diagnosing potential signs of government waste. Shouldn't that be something that conservatives (and everyone, really) support? Deleting emails of public business after only a week doesn't deserve the attention of journalists? Or does the Rick Perry adoration supersede one's convictions about government and policy?