Bill White Campaigns in Tyler
Posted/updated on: October 22, 2010 at 2:32 am
TYLER (Staff/AP) — With the gubernatorial election less than two weeks away, Democrat Bill White brought his campaign back to Tyler. White told the crowd, We need a governor who has been in private business. One who has met a payroll and who knows how to squeeze the most out of taxpayer dollars.
KETK-TV reports White said Rick Perry has a lot to answer for lately, hes making much of the whistleblower who accuses Perry of steering the Teacher Retirement Fund toward companies run by his donors. That should be illegal, White said. It should be illegal for them to do what theyre doing. The Teachers Retirement Fund has gone from a 5-billion dollar surplus when Rick Perry took office, to being over 20-billion dollars in the red. There was a vote that had the support of people of both parties, to put a teachers representative who could be a watchdog on that board. Rick Perry vetoed that bill.
White also said if he’s elected governor his first move would take him straight into a mobile home. The millionaire lives in a home appraised at $2.1 million, but says he’d be the portrait of frugality the moment he takes office by moving into a mobile home to save taxpayers money. Perry’s spokesman calls White’s proposal a gimmick.
