Perry Security Costs Go Up — Again
Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential odyssey ended in January, but the bills for the security force that protected him on the campaign trail keep pouring in, boosting the pricetag to almost $3 million so far.
The Department of Public Safety released new figures Friday for the travel expenditures incurred by his security detail. The department added more than $900,000 to the amounts it had previously released, accounting for travel vouchers that were submitted since the last report about three months ago.
The travel costs — for hotels, airfare, fuel and other expenses incurred by the agents assigned to Perry and ...
Comments (19)
Ed Rankin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
time for the gov to move on...
CeeCee Pond via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why couldn't campaign money cover these expenses?
Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Too bad the Governor's Mansion was not secure...don't forget the fire bombing happened on his watch.
John Eberly via Texas Tribune on Facebook
but he was like no other I thought....didn't believe in big Government....yeah knock my socks off. lol
Sunny Conditt Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He needs to "get on down the road"....
Ginni Watson Robinson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What an incredible vanity project that campaign was and here we are, picking up the tab while he collects 2 paychecks.
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It is funny that Rick Perry TALKS about lower government spending. But his actions don't DEMONSTRATE lower government spending.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
There aren't even 3 viable brain cells underneath that pompadour. That's more than $1 Million per brain cell.
Rudy Gonzales
Rick Perry owes the state of Texas for all these expenses. Pay up Rick! You've wasted too much Texas monies! Pay up or step down!
Jerry Flynn
He won't last for ever, and neither will the Republican's in the State House. The Latino voice gets biger every year, it might be five or ten years and the almighty right will get the boot. Then watch out.
Leon Drozd
Running a highly partisan presidential campaign on his own amounts to a frolic and detour from the duties and responsibilities of his job. Should this be a legal matter or a political matter? Three million dollars will buy lots of groceries for folks.
homas
ALL the other candidates' campaigns paid for their candidates' security. You owe the Texas taxpayers money, Rickie!
homas
ALL the other candidates' campaigns paid for their candidate's security. You owe the Texas taxpayers money, Rickie!
Marnie Tunay via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's unfortunate that many Americans simply don't get the correlation between license to carry firearms and other costs along with security for presidential candidates...
Dale Curry
$ 150,000 per year salary, for arguably the worst governor in Texas History
$ 90,000 per year retirement, but he is not retired
$2,800,000 additional security cost for his embarrassment of a Presidential Run
$Priceless the super pacs, the crony capitalism, Governor's Enterprise Fund, etc.
Anyone finding a margin there?
JC DemocratofTejas
kickbacks-that's how much perry is disliked-troopers in his pockets-double dipping.
Barbara Avila Marvin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The amount in question is even more than the $2.5 million dollars the College Station Independent School District is having to slash from it's entire budget for the 2012-2013 school year!...
Leslie Ferrante
He is so smug, how could you vote for such a crook in the first place!?!
Leslie Ferrante
When you're on drugs, you get paranoid!