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Video: Perry in DC on prez race, Texas record
Gov. Rick Perry was in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to speak to activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
He vouched for transparency in government spending, urged support for John McCain and talked about his new book on the Boy Scouts.
Afterward, he talked to reporters, and we have some video. Your blogger must have had too much coffee, so apologies for the shaky camera work.
Update: I asked Perry during his Q&A session about the fact that state government spending has been growing in Texas. He did not recall off hand exactly how much he has vetoed since taking office, but his office now tells it is $1.8 billion in state spending and $3.2 billion in state and federal funds. That doesn’t include the 2005 veto that forced a special session on school finance, because that money was put back in a couple of months later.
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