Rick Perry’s management skills in serious question after auditor’s report

[TexasTowelie]

Christy Hoppe’s blockbuster story about the first independent audit of the Texas Enterprise Fund contains quite a few shocking revelations, the biggest of which is how lax Gov. Rick Perry was in his financial oversight. The fund handed out $222 million to entities that hadn’t even bothered to submit applications. I wonder how that worked, exactly. If you have good contacts in the governor’s office, do you just call up and say, “Hey, could you funnel a few million my way?” And suddenly, poof, it’s yours.

For a governor who is making no secret of his presidential ambitions, his mismanagement of this fund is certain to play front and center in presidential debates as other candidates — Republican and Democrat — question whether he’s got the stuff to run our nation.

After reviewing the 98-page report, the governor’s office acknowledged that weak controls were in place when the fund first began in 2003, Hoppe reports. But now they’ve implemented the recommendations made by the auditors. I wonder, if the audit hadn’t happened, would these shoddy practices still be happening?

The “process and policies of the TEF have evolved” and it has now adopted “a more standard operating procedure,” Perry aides told the auditor.

Read more: http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2014/09/rick-perrys-management-skills-in-serious-question-after-auditors-report.html/

[tanyev]

1. People thought Rick Perry had management skills? That is shocking.

[tazkcmo]

2. The comment section

Encouraging comments from the readers. Hopefully it spreads.

[malokvale77]

3. Oh boy...

It took Rick Perry to convince me that "W" wasn't the dumbest Governor in Texas' history.

Well, hold on there folks, we have even dumber waiting off stage. Enter Greg Abbott.

Texans sure do embrace dumb.

[Gothmog]

4. Goodhair is an idiot who is too stupid to know that he will never be the GOP 2016 nominee

The fact that he screwed up some many different decisions does not surprise anyone

[Scuba]

5. Sounds just like Scott Wanker's Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10847593

Scott Walker’s job makin’ agency WEDC is sloppy as a hog in mud

Walker's response to reports of lost funds, lousy management ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251372288

Walker Shuts Down Public's Right To Know About WEDC Subsidies.

[Thinkingabout]

6. He bragged he had balanced the budget a few years ago when in fact he accepted the stimilus

Money after saying he would not, he should have said Obama balanced the budget. One of his heroes was Phil Gramm, the old "if you will just deregulate them (banks,etc) everything will just be fine" guy, part sponsor of the bill which was to replace Glass Stegall and we confronted a big failures of the bs ks and the tax payers had to bail them out. BTW, Gramm was an economics professor at Texas A&M.