Hypocrisy in Texas

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Where does he get this $22 million to restore the Governor’s Mansion? How did it escape the budget cuts that state-funded agencies are facing?  John Kelso, a commentary out of the Austin American-Statesman, writes this article. I agree with Kelso, of putting Gov. Rick Perry in the lobby of the American Hypocrisy Museum. In May, the State Board of Education delayed new textbooks cause of a $347 million price tag. Perry, who is anti-Washington, rejected away hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money for education but accepting Washington’s help on the mansion project. Shuffling money around from the Department of Public Safety to the State Preservation Board, which helped pay half of the $22 million needed for the mansion redo. Since it classified as federal money, the project was able to escape the drastic budget cuts that state-funded agencies are facing. Using Hurricane Ike upfront emergency expense money, which the feds provided to reimburse Texas. Fed money is not only being used to fix up the mansion, it may also be covering the expenses on Perry's house in West Austin, which is $9,000-a-month. Kelso, who called the governor’s office to see if any of the federal funds were being used to pay for Perry's rent, but was quickly directed to the State Preservation Board, then shooed around to the Comptroller’s Office and Preservation Board. Talking to Julie Fields "State Preservation Board" and R. J. DeSilva "Comptroller's Office" none gave direct evidence if it was federal money, but easily deflecting attention away from the issue.