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Taxpayers left with hefty bill from Perry's presidential run
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POSTED: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 7:13am
UPDATED: Friday, July 13, 2012 - 10:08am
East Texans talk-back on paying millions for governor's security detail
Tyler — Texas Department of Public Safety officers who protected Gov. Rick Perry as he criss-crossed the country running for president have filed for $104,000 more in backlogged travel expenses, according to state records released Friday.
That raises the total cost of his failed White House bid to Texas taxpayers to at least $3.7 million. East Texans talk-back on footing the goveror's bill with our news partner: KTBB and host Garth Maier.
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Freedom July 10, 2012
at 4:33pm
Taxpayers pay for both the primary elections - from county elections up. It's all a big waste of public money on a popularity contest, for both old parties. The Libertarian Party does not hold taxpayer funded primaries, but instead we actually nominate and vote for candidates at conventions. Real conventions that mean something, not big unofficial fundraising parties like the GOP and DNC.
Doctors complain that the Texas Medicaid program pays only half of the actual cost of most services, leaving them to absorb the losses. The Republican-controlled Legislature cut Medicaid reimbursements to doctors by a total of 2 percent in 2010 and 2011 and dramatically reduced payments for patients who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare, the health care program for senior citizens.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/AP-NewsBreak-Texas-docs-cut-back-on-po...
EiceBleu July 10, 2012
at 3:36pm
Can we drop the living toupee yet? 'Cause that's about all he is.
$3,700,000- that we paid from our taxes for this narcisistic pretty boy. He flaps his lips in objection to Obamacare which will privide medical help for the poor and did-enfranchised. Yet he spends millions without concern that it is OUR MONEY - YOU SHAMELESS CHARLETON.
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