Who Did You Elect for Top Republican Spot in Texas

Texas Budget Information – TX Legislative Budget Board

Biennium Term Estimated/Budgeted Amount Actually Spent % Change

2000-2001 $101.8 billion[15][16] $101.9 billion[17] 13.7%

2002-2003 $114.1 billion[18] $115.9 billion[19] 9.2%

2004-2005 $118.2 billion[20] $126.6 billion[21] 9.2%

2006-2007 $138.2 billion[22] $145.1 billion[23][24] 11.5%

2008-2009 $167.8 billion[25][26] $174.8 billion 20.5%

US Census Population Projections for Texas from July 2000 to July

2009:

Year Population % of Growth

2009 24,782,302 1.96%
2008 24,304,290 1.95%
2007 23,837,701 2%
2006 23,369,024 2.48%
2005 22,801,920 1.7%
2004 22,418,319 1.6%
2003 22,057,801 1.6%
2002 21,710,788 1.8%
2001 21,332,847 1.8%
2000 20,945,963

Open Borders:
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688/
Gov. Rick Perry's Remarks to the Border Summit
11th Paragraph Down - “President Fox’s vision for an open border is
a vision I embrace, as long as we demonstrate the will to address the
obstacles to it. An open border means poverty has given way to
opportunity, and Mexico’s citizens do not feel compelled to cross the
border to find that opportunity. It means we have addressed pollution
concerns, made substantial progress in stopping the spread of disease,
and rid our crossings of illicit drug smuggling activity.”

Mandatory Vaccination for Boys and Girls – Thought You

Stopped It
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16948093/from/RS.4/

Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an

order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get
vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.

By employing an executive order, Perry sidestepped opposition in the

Legislature from conservatives and parents’ rights groups who fear such a
requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way Texans
raise their children. Vaccination was scheduled to begin in Sept. 2008.

Perry has ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug
company’s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry’s former chief of
staff. His current chief of staff’s mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep.
Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government (Merck's
non-profit front and direct channel to state-level legislators who are the key
to enacting mandates). The governor also received $6,000 from Merck’s
political action committee during his re-election campaign.

The order is effective until Perry or a successor changes it, and the
Legislature has no authority to repeal it, said Perry spokeswoman Krista
Moody. Moody said the Texas Constitution permits the governor, as head of
the executive branch, to order other members of the executive branch to
adopt rules like this one.

Job Fair in Downtown got shut down

  Designed for felons to help them get back on their feet
 Planners only thought 100 or so would show
 More than 300 showed and they had to shut down the fair and
reschedule

It is a sad day when folks would rather hire a current criminal (illegal)
than a former felon who has paid their debt to society.