Showing posts with label Governor's Mansion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Governor's Mansion. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Rick Perry says Governor's Mansion will have solar energy panels

Perry said that when the Texas Governor's Mansion is finally renovated, there will be solar energy panels on the roof.
"The historical preservation folks went crazy," Perry said of his desire to outfit the mansion with the panels.

Jeffers: http://dallasne.ws/gRMY6A

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Authorities identify ‘persons of interest’ in Texas Governor’s Mansion arson

 AUSTIN — New reviews of surveillance tapes from the June 2008 arson of the Texas Governor’s Mansion have identified “persons of interest” - linked to the 2008 plot to bomb the Republican National Convention - who were filmed near the mansion days before the fire. The Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday released video of a white Jeep Cherokee that was idling in front of the mansion in the early morning hours of June 4, in which three occupants were taking flash photos of what DPS officials said were the security cameras on the property.

Stutz: http://dallasne.ws/eBa7U4

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Group files complaint on Perry campaign disclosures of mansion expenses

Jay Root from the AP reports:

Since 2001, Perry's campaign has spent more than $800,000 under the loosely defined category of "mansion expenditures." Texans for Public Justice said in a complaint filed Tuesday with the Texas Ethics Commission that the campaign violated disclosure laws by failing to itemize the spending.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Labor to Rick Perry: Won't you be our neighbor?

Slater:
The Texas AFL-CIO says one way to save taxpayer money is for Gov. Rick Perry to leave his $1.8 million hilltop rental house and move into less lavish quarters. So today they offered the Republican governor the use of a mobile home for $1 a year. The green-and-white mobile home was parked on cinder blocks in the parking lot of the labor building in Austin, next door to the Governor's Mansion, which is being renovated after a fire.
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Texas taxpayers footing big bill for Gov. Rick Perry's temporary home

fro The Associated Press:


AUSTIN -- With the state facing a budget shortfall of at least $11 billion, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has spent almost $600,000 in public money during the past two years to live in a sprawling rental home in the hills above the capital, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
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