Spain's Trans-Texas Corridor firm hires Tx Gov. Rick Perry's aide (again)

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Firm also hired the Aide's daughter. Dad & daughter are lobbyists now. Already busted by the Dallas newspapers for scheduling Lawmakers' vacation-party trips. Some things in Texas NEVER change.

Aug. 18, 2006, 1:04PM
Trans-Texas Corridor firm hires ex-Perry aide
Associated Press

DALLAS — Republican Gov. Rick Perry's former liaison to the Legislature is working once again for the Spanish company that won the rights to develop the state's $7 billion Trans-Texas Corridor toll road project.

Lobbyist Dan Shelley worked for the firm as a consultant just before he went to the governor's office, a connection first revealed in 2004.

State officials denied any connection between that circumstance and the decision, three months later, to award Cintra-Zachry the huge highway contract. Now Shelley has left the governor's office, and he and his daughter have large contracts to lobby for the road builder, The Dallas Morning News reported today.

This week, Shelley had planned to take four state lawmakers on a four-day, all-expense-paid trip to Canada. But the trip was abruptly postponed by the state transportation department after the newspaper asked questions about it.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4126395.html

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