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Perry's love/hate relationship with Washington's money


By DemAdmin - Posted on 24 January 2011

Hypocritical Texas Gov. Rick Perry likes to tell Washington to stop meddling in state affairs. He vocally opposed the Obama administration's 2009 stimulus program to spur the economy and assist cash-strapped states.

Turns out Texas was the state that depended the most on those very stimulus funds to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010...

Read the whole story at CNNMoney.

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