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The Governor's Schedule

By Steve Hall

Elise Hu of the Texas Tribune examines Governor Rick Perry's schedule and political issues surrounding it in, "Perry's Spare Schedule Feeds Transparency Concerns."The governor who considers himself one of the state?s hardest workers has few official records to back up that claim ? especially compared to the detailed schedules kept by his fellow big-state governors, which were obtained by The Texas Tribune through open records requests.Gov. Rick Perry's Democratic opponent, former Houston mayor Bill White, criticized the Republican incumbent in June for "working part time" after his schedule for the first six months of 2010 showed an average of seven hours of state work per week and 38 weekdays with ?no state scheduled events...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 23, 2010 (boomark / email).