Rick Perry abuses Texas taxpayers in many different ways. He works eight hours a week, lives in an extravagant rental mansion on public money and travels extravagantly.
Perry has also turned state government into a self-serving political machine. He has helped his biggest campaign donors get millions in Texas taxpayer money from the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Emerging Technology Fund. Last week, Texans learned that Perry’s appointees to the Teacher Retirement System, which is in charge of investing educators retirement money, were overruling career staffers and outside consultants to funnel TRS investments to Perry’s biggest campaign donors.
Perry has also turned state government into a self-serving political machine. He has helped his biggest campaign donors get millions in Texas taxpayer money from the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Emerging Technology Fund. Last week, Texans learned that Perry’s appointees to the Teacher Retirement System, which is in charge of investing educators retirement money, were overruling career staffers and outside consultants to funnel TRS investments to Perry’s biggest campaign donors.
This abuse of state government must end. Check out this editorial cartoon from the Austin American-Statesman highlight Rick Perry’s abuse of Texas payers:
