(Texas) Comptroller Strayhorn Rips Into (Gov) Perry

[Wwagsthedog]

Got this email from a TX relative. Sorry, no link available. The following is an example of TX repugnants beginning to feed on themselves. Make no mistake, Strayhorn is a nakedly ambitious politician. She appears to be trying to drive a wedge between herself (posturing as friend of bush) and Gov. Perry (puppet of delay). Apparently, the effects of bad blood from the redistricting contest in the repo party might just be simmering out of the pot. Yeah, this is local stuff but it gives a glimpse of what a mess our dear leader left in his wake.............


(Speech to) Greater Houston Partnership October 13th, 2003

"When I was asked to come to speak to you today, I was asked specifically to give insight into what has been happening in Austin and about House Bill 7, the so-called government re-organization bill. Regretfully, here’s the report.

E(ducation) Texas and the Texas School Performance Reviews are two programs in the Texas Comptroller’s Office that have won national and international acclaim. The programs have recommended over $16 billion in savings for hard-working Texans, clearly benefiting the taxpayers of Texas and the school children of Texas.

Yesterday, these programs were stripped from the Texas Comptroller’s Office – not Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s office – but the Texas Comptroller’s Office.

Texas taxpayers and Texas school children and the Texas Comptroller’s Office are being punished for me telling the truth.

I was telling the truth when I said we had a budget shortfall. I was telling the truth when I said the budget did not balance. I was telling the truth when I said there was $700 million available in early July to restore cuts before critical health care was eliminated for frail elderly and medically needy children. And I was telling the truth when I said new fees, charges and out-of-pocket expenses were going to cost Texans $2.7 billion more over the next two years.

Had eTexas and the school performance reviews not been administered well, I could understand the effort to move them. But we have done a grand job.

This move started in the Governor’s Office months ago and ended in the Governor’s Office yesterday.

Last Friday, behind closed doors in the Pink Granite Building, the Governor told the House Republican Caucus he wanted these programs stripped from the Comptroller’s Office because “it was personal.”

What I say behind closed doors is the same thing I say standing on the Capitol steps in the sunshine.

My telling the truth is apparently what the Governor takes as “personal.”

Well, let me tell you what is personal to me.

What is personal to me is the 160,000 Texas children who have lost their health insurance under this governor’s administration.

What is personal to me is the thousands of jobs that have disappeared in Texas under this governor’s administration.

What is personal to me is sky-rocketing homeowner property tax rates and insurance.

What is personal to me is the unacceptable inequity in our public education system that leaves too many children behind.

I firmly believe that in the absence of business leadership, elected officials cannot be expected to do what is right, to do what is in the best interest of this state. What is personal to me is this governor’s administration’s failure to draw upon the expertise of the business community to solve our school finance problem. Business leaders from Ross Perot to Tom Luce to Rob Mosbacher have stepped up when asked to provide the leadership politicians need when it comes to public education.

What is personal to me is that higher education expenditures per student have decreased under this governor’s administration.

What is personal to me is the transportation crisis in this state.

And what is most personal to me is the lost civility, the lost dignity, the lost honor, the lost effectiveness, and the lost spirit of bi-partisanship championed by then Governor and now President George W. Bush.

Texas is great, but we can do better.

Texas belongs to no special interest group, no special political credo, no special individual. It belongs to all Texans. Texans want government that is free from backrooms, free from special interest groups and free from good old boy, go along to get along school of politics.

Just before the battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston said “We are nerved for the contest and we must conquer or we will perish.”

Well, I ,too, am nerved for the contest.

This administration can take away every desk and every chair and every program in the Texas Comptroller’s Office, and I will still tell the people of Texas the truth.

I will continue to be one tough grandma watching out for the economy, watching out for education, watching out for health care and transportation. And watching out for Texas.

Thank you."

[SharonAnn]

1. Hmm, sounds like she could be a "sister" of mine. If what she

says is true, then good on her!

[Ilsa]

2. You know she's Little Scotty McClellan's mommy...

That's right. Her name is Carol Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn, and she's a liar like the rest of the pukes, although I don't mind them actin glike cannibals this way.

Two years ago, after being Controller of Public Accounts for two years, she lied about the size of our deficit. The papers all said they would hit $9 billion+ and she denied it, saying it was only $6b. Right after she won her election, she announced that our deficit was $9b+. Duh.

[GOPisEvil]

3. I think she's going to challenge Gov. Goodhair.

Of course, she could go back to being a Democrat. That way we could have former Republicans in back-to-back campaigns. :eyes:

[2bfree]

4. Boy she is "one tough Grandma"!

But she is also a big fat liar as well. That's how she got her job, crappy job that it is these days. I bet Marty Akins is happy he didn't win the election.

[UTUSN]

5. No Repuke Is a Friend of Mine n/t

[shance]

7. I used to be a 'repuke' many moons ago. There is hope for all of us***

I think what has happened to the Republican party is essentially they have been taken over by a faction that has nothing to do with the elements of self-responsibility, accountability or any other characteristics that used to be the true ingredients of the Republican party.

These individuals have become intoxicated by power, greed, money, and have lost sight of reality and the damage they are inflicting on our country and the world at large. And they punish anyone, like this woman says, who literally are telling the TRUTH. Thats what is so amazing to me.

I havent yet been able to figure out how they have little, if any concept of what they are leaving for the kids and grand kids to have to face and endure. You would think that would hold some significance, even would be their desire to make this planet a better place FOR their children, but there is some major disconnect going there.

They are detached and indifferent to the pain they inflict on those who have not arisen from the same background,are less fortunate and/or who are not in their wealth level. Its like these people need to be visited by the three ghosts in a Chrismas Carol! Dickens writes that "Mankind is our business" but they could care less, as they move our planet closer and closer to devastation and destruction.

Its an incredibly sad and amazing thing that can happen in any political party or faction when extremism takes over the conscience of a few who hold the reins. Very similar to what happens to those in Lord of the Rings when they are seduced by the ring itself.

Enough of the comparisons***

I am proud of this woman who, may have her issues, but she is not too blind not to see what is now becoming very clearly the writing on the wall.

[Resistance Is Futile]

9. The fundamental divide

The GOP has been taken over not by people who don't see the damage they are causing but rather by people who don't care. There are millennilists who are waiting for the rapture and don't believe there is a future, businessmen who can't see beyond the next quarter, and a huge number of clinical sociopaths who do not care about anyone other than themselves. This really is the key difference between the modern GOP and every opposition group short of the openly fascist parties: the opposition movements care about other people but the GOP is only interested in its own desires.

To the GOP, 'mankind is our business.' It is something to be ignored while doing business.

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[judgegina]

8. Strayhorn is

a worthless, sorry bitch. But, I like her better than Perry.