5:30pm Update: The Texas Tribune has updated their story -- the Governor's office is now trying to backtrack on their response. They have been caught in a blatant lie and now they are stuck lying even more.
UPDATE 4:19pm: Cesinger clarifies that "the governor, not the governor’s office, maintains two schedules. He maintains the political schedule through his campaign office, and the official schedule through the governor’s office." It's unclear, then, how the state office released a political schedule. We're awaiting the governor's office response.
Remember: Rick Perry has said, on television to WFAA, that "I consider everything I'm doing state business." Yet he keeps a private separate schedule that is somehow exempt from public records laws -- despite the fact that Perry has said, "I consider everything I'm doing state business."
Responding to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White's accusations that Gov. Rick Perry had hidden a "secret schedule" from the public, Perry's office said this afternoon that it mistakenly released a "political schedule" to the White campaign, which obtained a Sept. 15 schedule as part of a public information request.
Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said the office does keep separate schedules for the governor — "an official schedule and a political schedule" — and that the political calendar was "erroneously provided." The office maintains the political schedule is exempt from public records laws.
The Bill White campaign has already released the following video, slamming Perry for his secrecy and pointing out that it is against the law to keep a secret schedule:
