[net-gold] DISASTERS: FIRES : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING : LIBRETARIANISM: Rick Perry's Budget Leaves Texans In Bind Amidst Historic Wildfires
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- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 07:35:24 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: FIRES :
UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING :
LIBRETARIANISM:
Rick Perry's Budget Leaves Texans In Bind Amidst Historic Wildfires
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Rick Perry's Budget Leaves Texans In Bind Amidst Historic Wildfires
Jason Cherkis
Lucia Graves
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/
rick-perry-campaigns-slashes-budget-texas-burns_n_952738.html?ir=Green
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3vfhcbz
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WASHINGTON -- As wildfires engulfed her Bastrop County, Texas,
neighborhood on Sunday, Betty Dunkerley was forced to evacuate her home
for safer ground. There were few options for shelter, she said. Only a
middle school and a Catholic church had been opened up to evacuees, and
the middle school were already crowded.
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While seeking shelter, Dunkerley saw others who had been displaced --
families with nowhere to go and no support system in place to assist them.
Some slept in parking lots, with kids sleeping in sleeping bags in truck
beds alongside the family dog.
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"A lot of people were trying to camp out," Dunkerley, a former Austin City
Council member, told The Huffington Post.
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The wildfires threatening Dunkerley and her neighbors are being met by an
inadequately funded response team. Back in May, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)
signed a budget presented by the state legislature that cut funding for
the state agency in charge of combating such blazes.
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The Texas Forest Service's funding was sliced from $117.7 million to $83
million. More devastating cuts hit the assistance grants to volunteer fire
departments around the state. Those grants were slashed 55 percent from
$30 million per year in 2010 and 2011 to $13.5 million per year in 2012
and 2013. Those cuts are effective now.
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As of Tuesday, the Houston Chronicle reported that wildfires had consumed
more than 33,000 acres in Bastrop County, clearing out 20 neighborhoods
and claiming two lives. Fires had also sprung up in several counties
outside of Houston, burning at least 7,000 acres. Aerial photos from the
Bastrop blaze showed a huge smoke plume had drifted over Austin.
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Texas is currently facing its worst single-year drought on record, with
agricultural losses topping $5 billion. Similar drought conditions and
water rationing caused deadly fires that raged two years ago. Despite that
history, Texas's governor and state lawmakers failed to make any
allowances for wildfires this year.
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Perry, who is now the frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary,
returned home from the campaign trail to address the fires on Monday, the
day after Dunkerley had been evacuated.
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"I think our local state senator has been very visible," Dunkerley said.
"Our county judge and our mayor in Bastrop have been very visible." She
added that once Perry returned to Texas, "some of our state resources were
showing up a little faster."
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But the consequences of the cuts to firefighting funding remain evident.
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"We were outvoted -- what can I say?" said Texas state Sen. Mario Gallegos
(D), who voted against the state budget. "Obviously this money is needed
for natural disasters like the ones we have right now."
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Perry has berated the Obama administration for not approving quickly
enough a request he put in to FEMA for federal funds to assist
firefighting efforts in Texas.
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"You see hundreds of thousands of acres of Texas burning and you know that
there will soon be emergency declarations, and we did that now a couple of
weeks ago, but still no response from this administration," he told local
news radio station WOAI in an April interview. "There is a point in time
where you say, hey, what's going on here," Perry added. "You have to ask
why are you taking care of Alabama and other states? I know our letter
didn't get lost in the mail."
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But after complaining to the feds and conducting a statewide prayer for
rain earlier this year, Perry appears to have shifted his focus to the
2012 election.
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Recent polls showed Perry surging ahead of Mitt Romney and the rest of the
GOP 2012 pack, with 29 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning
independents listing him as their first choice for the Republican
nomination. His closest competitor, Romney, landed just 17 percent of
respondents.
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People in Texas, however, are not as convinced by Perry's performance. A
survey conducted by Public Policy Polling found Perry trailing Obama 45
percent to 47 percent in Texas, which hasn't voted for a Democratic
president since 1976. The June poll showed Perry's approval rating at just
43 percent. Another University of TexasTexas Tribune poll shows him doing
considerably worse.
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A call to Perrys office Wednesday was not returned.
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