My Dirty Governor: Perry keeps Texas tax breaks to Boeing secret

[Bucky]

Texas is trying to get a new Boeing assembly plant for Boeing's 7E7s to come to Texas (yeee-haawwww!). Problem is, Perry is insisting on keeping confidential all the no-doubt billions of tax dollar breaks that he's offering Boeing.

Perry right now is probably thinking "damn, if I could only claim it was for 'national security' I'd be in the clear." Whatever his offer to Boeing is, it's still better than the measely $3.2 billion that Washington state is offering, those cheapskates.

from the Seattle Times:

Texas governor files suit to keep cover on state's Boeing package

In a highly public gamble, Washington's legislators put more than $3.2 billion in tax breaks on the table to win Boeing's 7E7 final-assembly site.

But Texas is keeping its hand secret, and Gov. Rick Perry is going to court to keep it that way. Perry's office filed suit against the Texas Attorney General's Office last week, challenging an open-records ruling that would make public Texas' 7E7 incentives.

In June, Alfred Ehm, a member of the Texas Central Rail-Corridor Coalition in San Antonio, requested the state reveal the package that it mailed to Boeing on June 20, the deadline for 7E7 site submissions.

"I'm trying to make a point that the government cannot receive and spend taxpayer money and claim they're not a public agency," Ehm told the Austin American-Statesman. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001788012_7e7watch11.html">more



(Edited for stupid typo)

[Dover]

1. Perry, like all GOP leadership (especially the TX. variety) keep

most business deals secretive, especially if they know it will impact and be unpopular with their citizens. Perry recently attempted to basically give away water pumping rights on state lands in dry West Texas to his buddies (who are mainly from the oil industry), while keeping this a secret from those most affected...the citizens who draw water from that aquifer as well as the local and state water officials. This is what Dirty Rick has in common with dirty Dubya and Dirty Dick.

[Skittles]

2. PERRY IS A PIECE OF SHIT

JUST LIKE HIS PREDECESSOR