Citizens for Responsiblity and Ethics in Washington named Perry among the worst six governors in the nation on ethics considerations. All top/bottom six?of CREW?s worst list are Republicans. In the entire ?watch? list of 18, 16 are Republicans.
CREW said it named Perry to the list for his corporate cronyism. Using the Texas Enterprise Fund and Emerging Technology Fund, Perry has helped award business incentive money. Millions of the funds have gone to political supporters and contributors.
Perry has denied politics played a role in the awards, citing review boards and sign-offs also by the lieutenant governor and House speaker.
The report also dinged Perry for ?double-dipping,? taking advantage of state law that allows him to collect $90,000 in retirement pay while still working and taking home a $150,000 governor?s salary.
On transparency, the report cited Perry for deleting all his state emails after 7 days, making them unavailable to the public after that time, and failing to make his schedule of events readily available. He also pushed a provision that now allows him to keep any itemization of travel reimbursements made to his security detail secret for 18 months.
?They say, ?Don?t mess with Texas,? but thanks to Gov. Perry, Texas is a mess,? said CREW executive director Melanie Sloan. ?If Gov. Perry?s habit of rewarding his campaign donors with powerful appointments and millions in state funds isn?t bad enough, his hypocrisy and antipathy to transparency should give Americans pause.?
In the press release and bullet-point presentation, they didn?t even get to the fact that?he vetoed the ethics reform bill and cut all funding for the state?s public integrity unit. But those incidents were outlined in the full report.
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Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/07/washington-ethics-group-slaps-at-gov-rick-perry.html/
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