Yeah Rick Perry Will Spend $25 Million Renovating Governor's Mansion, Wanna Make Something Of It?
What up, Tejas? Oh, your health care system is the worst in the country, you rank 51st in the attainment of high school diplomas, and Rick Perry has just chopped $8 billion from education and Medicaid? (You know, in addition to turning down that free Medicaid from the feds, because federal money has syphilis?) Well, that's just because Texas has priorities. Priorities like "screw things what are good for citizens; Rick Perry's mansion's too old!" Well not anymore it ain't, now there is a spanking new $25 million renovation to the Governor's Mansion with all the "old-growth" and "longleaf pine" Rick Perry's simple heart could desire!
For their $21.5 million, plus $3.5 million in public donations, taxpayers got inch-thick longleaf pine floors, an added wing and a geothermal heating-and-cooling system that required digging 40 350-foot (107-meter) wells. The cost of restoring the 25-room house would be enough to pay for almost11 million student lunches at Austin’s high schools.[...]
The cost also covered tracking down and buyingold-growth Bastrop pine to restore the six 29-foot columnsadorning the front of the Greek Revival-style house, said Dealey Herndon, the project manager. Workers stripped layers of lead paint from the white brick exterior and replaced the burned roof.
“I had to question every day whether this was a good use of the money,” Herndon said. “The cost of this is very high. Everything that wasn’t original architecture had to go out -- the kitchen equipment, the cabinets, the bathroom tile.”
Hey man, you don't want Rick Perry to have to live on the cheap, do you? Just think what that would do to Texas's reputation.
[ Bloomberg, via HuffPo ]
The <a href="http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/real_estate\/archives\/2008\/05\/where-ronald-re.html" target="_blank">Sacramento Governor&#039;s Mansion</a> looks the same way and Nancy refused to live in something so &quot;old and run-down&quot;. They lived in a tacky, fake English Tudor pre-fab number while he was Governor.
Since the fire, Rick and Anita have been living in a gorgeous 5,000 square foot rental in Westlake Hills, along with his security contingent. The State has been paying the property owner a rental rate of $9,900/month - for five years. The property owner is known contributor to Rick&#039;s campaign.
They have been living in this rental because the Perrys have been screwing with this project. Anita asked for an expansion because she&#039;s always thought the mansion was too small. When changes to historical structures like this occur, the State Preservation Board has to go back to the Legislature for more appropriations. Given that the Texas legislature meets on a bi-annual basis, this move has worked out really well for Rick and his rental house owner.
And this is why Rick Perry is a goat fucker.