Nobody will give a rat's ***, but this is a good example of Republican sleaze at the state level. It's also an example that illustrates why I won't be voting for The Wheelchair.
Background - a state audit found major accountability problems with the Texas Enterprise Fund (the slush fund a partisan Republican legislature created in 2003 and turned over to Rick Fairy to dole out to cronies). Specifically, they found that there was minimal record keeping within the program and that some of the companies that received money never had to apply for it. Perry just doled it out arbitrarily.
Wendy Davis is ripping The Wheelchair because as AG he ruled that the applications were confidential and not subject to the Open Records Act. The Wheelchair is claiming that state law makes the applications confidential. Wendy Davis, (Yes, Abortion Barbie) is absolutely right to dish out the ridicule on this one.
The Legislature writes these so-called open government laws so a very political AG can always come up with a ******** argument to keep something hidden when it could damage him or his buddies, so fair enough. However, keeping the application confidential wasn't the real issue, because there was no friggin' application to keep confidential. But did The Wheelchair acknowledge that the application didn't exist? No, he pretended that there was an application that needed to be kept confidential. That's very sleazy, doesn't follow the law, and hid corruption from the taxpayers and voters.
But don't worry about your money getting pissed away in corporate welfare or whether you want a governor who already proved he doesn't even want accountability for how the corporate welfare is doled out. Let's go back to worrying about whether or not Obama properly saluted somebody.
Background - a state audit found major accountability problems with the Texas Enterprise Fund (the slush fund a partisan Republican legislature created in 2003 and turned over to Rick Fairy to dole out to cronies). Specifically, they found that there was minimal record keeping within the program and that some of the companies that received money never had to apply for it. Perry just doled it out arbitrarily.
Wendy Davis is ripping The Wheelchair because as AG he ruled that the applications were confidential and not subject to the Open Records Act. The Wheelchair is claiming that state law makes the applications confidential. Wendy Davis, (Yes, Abortion Barbie) is absolutely right to dish out the ridicule on this one.
The Legislature writes these so-called open government laws so a very political AG can always come up with a ******** argument to keep something hidden when it could damage him or his buddies, so fair enough. However, keeping the application confidential wasn't the real issue, because there was no friggin' application to keep confidential. But did The Wheelchair acknowledge that the application didn't exist? No, he pretended that there was an application that needed to be kept confidential. That's very sleazy, doesn't follow the law, and hid corruption from the taxpayers and voters.
But don't worry about your money getting pissed away in corporate welfare or whether you want a governor who already proved he doesn't even want accountability for how the corporate welfare is doled out. Let's go back to worrying about whether or not Obama properly saluted somebody.
