{"id":5753,"date":"2014-06-02T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:25:16","slug":"show-us-the-money-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5753","title":{"rendered":"Show us the money, governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Give credit it is due to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.<\/p>\n<p>He lured a massive corporate operation from California to Plano, a Dallas suburb. Perry also danged about $40 million in front of Toyota to make the move halfway across the country.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 40 million public dollars, yours and mine.<\/p>\n<p>However, the governor is acting as if the public doesn&#8217;t deserve to know the details of the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/rick-perry-seeks-keep-details-toyota-incentives-secret\/<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s keeping the financial incentives secret.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute, governor. That&#8217;s our money, isn&#8217;t it? I know you&#8217;re a man of means, but you didn&#8217;t write a personal check to the Toyota honchos, did you?<\/p>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s office has gotten Freedom of Information requests from the Texas Observer and the Houston Chronicle. The idea is that since it&#8217;s public dough, the governor owes it to, um, the <em>public<\/em> to explain the incentive package that went to Toyota in the public&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Perry&#8217;s office has declined the request, saying that revealing the details would reveal to competing states Texas&#8217;s economic strategy and enable them to sweeten deals that might lure prospective companies away from here.<\/p>\n<p>The Observer&#8217;s Forrest Wilder reports: &#8220;Perry\u2019s attorneys argue that releasing any information before the deal is finalized &#8216;would seriously disadvantage Texas by allowing other states to directly approach this entity with competing incentives.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, the governor isn&#8217;t messing with his own money. It&#8217;s ours and the governor should tell us what he&#8217;s doing with our money.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give credit it is due to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He lured a massive corporate operation from California to Plano, a Dallas suburb. Perry also danged about $40 million in front of Toyota to make the move halfway across the country. That&#8217;s 40 million public dollars, yours and mine. However, the governor is acting as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Show us the money, governor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1603,1975,3610,4872],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-enterprise-fund","tag-gov-rick-perry","tag-plano","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}