Governor Rick Perry: "I Think Everybody Takes Me At My Word"

by: Phillip Martin, Progress Texas

Fri Mar 11, 2011 at 09:51 AM CST

Jason Embry: "Do you mean, initially, or do you mean, it's your goal, by the end of the session, we're still not hitting the rainy day fund?"

Perry: "That would be my goal. Not tapping into the rainy day fund means not tapping into the rainy day fund."

Embry: "How strong of a line in the sand are you going to take on that? Are you going to tell these folks, 'Don't send me a budget that taps in the rainy day fund?'"

Perry: "Oh I think we've already said that. Do I need to take a chisel out there and chisel it into the side of the Capitol? I think everybody takes me at my word.

March 10, 2011:

Pitts pressed, "Does that mean at some point you would agree to use some of the rainy-day fund?" and that Perry hasn't drawn a line "that you will never touch the rainy day fund?"

"Absolutely," Armbrister said. "We even talked about it with the governor, and he said, 'Yeah, I haven't drawn a line in the sand.'"

You get what you vote for.

Previously on BOR

• WFAA: Gov. Perry Waffles on Spending Rainy Day Money
  
• Five Major Texas Conservative Groups Advocate Use of Rainy Day Fund in 2012-2013 Budget
• Dear Grover Norquist - Texas Governor Rick Perry is Raising Taxes for 213,000 Employers
  
• Rick Perry Prioritizes Grover Norquist Over Meeting With Disabled Texans