After 9/11, Perry’s Texas Wasted Homeland Security Money On Sports Cars, Neckties, And

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After 9/11, Perry’s Texas Wasted Homeland Security Money On Sports Cars, Neckties, And A Hog Catcher
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/07/313260/after-911-perrys-texas-wasted-homeland-security-money-on-sports-cars-neckties-and-a-hog-catcher/

In the years since the Sept. 11 attacks, Texas has received at least $1.7 billion from the Department of Homeland Security, with little accountability over how lawmakers spent the money. Instead of using the federal DHS grants to strengthen the state’s security, officials often used the funds for personal extravagances like sports cars:

(A) Fort Worth Star-Telegram examination of thousands of purchases also found a a $21 fish tank in Seguin, a $24,000 latrine on wheels in Fort Worth, and a real pork project — a hog catcher in Liberty County.

Homeland Security paid for body bags, garbage bags and Ziploc bags.

If taxpayers had a say, they might have gone along with some purchases, such as $24,012 in body armor for the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority. But what about the two 2011 Camaros, each $30,884, used in Kleberg County border enforcement?

A report this year by the inspector general of the U.S. Homeland Security Department criticized the state’s management of Homeland Security grants from 2006 to 2008.


Controls lacking for Homeland Security grants to Texas, U.S. says
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/04/123144/controls-lacking-for-homeland.html#ixzz1XBGGWRz4

[LeftinOH]

1. 'Fiscal Responsibility' is for Democrats only, remember.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Chimichurri]

2. You're afraid? gimme all ur money and I'll protect ya.

[madrchsod]

3. my little city has brand new camaro,two big ass chevy suv`s.

that`s not counting the 2 yr old cars , suv`s, and a huge swat team truck...there`s a lot of crime here in ronnieland!