The Brief: Top Texas News for March 2, 2011
THE BIG CONVERSATION:
Is it raining out there yet? A growing chorus of Republican voices seems to think so.
State Rep. Jim Pitts, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, filed a bill Monday that would draw $4.3 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund, a $9.4 billion pot of reserve money that Gov. Rick Perry and a number of other conservatives oppose tapping, even as the state grapples with a $15 billion to $27 billion budget shortfall.
Perry thinks spending the fund would only postpone the tough decisions that need to be made to balance the budget ...
Comments (3)
Dianne Johnson-Thompson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It is raining!!!! It's been raining and the types of things that money has been spent on just in the beginning of this session is enough to want a recall on votes. Why do our schools have to suffer so that a political interest can be made? What happened to 1-800-BEAT WASTE? It would seem to me that our children should come first, elderly and nothing that remotely smells like a personal political agenda should even be addressed. Don't even disguise it like it would help the people, we weren't asked to begin with.
Judy Shelton Curtis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry would rather our kids education suffer than tap into that fund.
Kim Batchelor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry wants to cut education so we'll all be too ignorant to notice that he moved Juarez, Mexico to the United States, calling it "the most dangerous city in the United States." If ignorance is bliss, the good hair must be ecstatic.