addition proceeding quietly LOL

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Gov. Rick Perry has taken pains to distance himself from the controversial 3,000-square-foot addition proposed for the historic Texas Governor's Mansion, going so far as to insist that he has not been asked his opinion.

Leave the decision to the experts at the Texas Historical Commission, he said.

But the executive director of the agency that is overseeing the project — an agency over which Perry presides as chairman of its governing board — says Perry and other top state leaders or their staffs have privately signed off on an addition and have been briefed at every step.

Though most state agencies usually take a public vote before embarking on such a sizeable project — approximately $26 million, the most extensive restoration of the storied landmark ever — the State Preservation Board so far has neither voted publicly nor held a public hearing on the proposed addition, even though its officials are poised to ask the Historical Commission to approve a permit to begin the work.
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http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/work-on-mansion-addition-proceeding-quietly-171457.html

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1. Just the way Perry likes it - done before it can be undone

Work on mansion addition proceeding quietly
Despite lack of public vote, agency chief says state leaders have given tacit approval to get plans approved this month.

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Unlike most state agencies, the Preservation Board in the past has completed some projects before the board voted publicly to approve them. Officials say that process is legal and appropriate.

"This is the way the board has elected to proceed," said John Sneed, executive director of the Preservation Board. "Executive staff meets with the members of their (governing board members') staffs frequently, sometimes on a monthly basis, and we are proceeding with this project based on those direct conversations.

"I would not be moving ahead with it if I weren't certain the members supported it," Sneed said.

Perry is a revisionist historian anyway. Pretty soon he'll be talking about the mansion always looking that way. Heck they may even photoshop a couple of pics from the past to make it more "real".

Lets not forget this is a disaster in the making:
Texas Governor's Mansion expansion is blueprint for historical disaster

Sonia