Texas, where public money meets political ends
Don't be shocked: Texas political figures sometimes use the privileges of their offices, even taxpayer money, to serve political ends outside what they are supposed to focus on.
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Take Comptroller Susan Combs, an avowed opponent of the federal healthcare changes signed into law by President Barack Obama. Combs issued a report this week titled, "Texas Business Attitudes Toward Federal Health Care Reform."
"Texans have charged my office with following and understanding the trends and events that affect our state's finances and the state economy on which they depend," Combs wrote in a cover letter for the report.
Combs wanted to "better gauge the Texas business community's views on the potential impacts of federal healthcare reform by reaching out to and hearing from the most businesses possible in Texas," the report says. Good idea.
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