As you may know, the governor's mansion in the state of Texas is currently being renovated. And Governor Rick Perry has taken the opportunity to set himself up in some pretty fancy digs at the taxpayer's expense. He has rented a real mansion which is costing taxpayer's the princely sum of $10,000 a month in rent payments. That's a rather heady sum to be billing to a state with a $15 to $18 billion dollar shortfall in the next biennium.
In an effort to save the taxpayers this money (and score some political points), the Texas AFL-CIO offered the mobile home above to Governor Perry. The cost to the taxpayers would have been only $1 a year. Before anyone says the governor can't live in a mobile home, let me say this would not have been precedent-setting. When Mike Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, he lived in a mobile home while his governor's mansion was being renovated (although I will admit it was a double-wide mobile home).
I'll bet if Perry had asked them nicely the AFL-CIO would have come up with a double-wide, but that's just not good enough for coyote-hunting Rick Perry. He considers himself far too important to live like common folks -- no matter what it costs the taxpayers.
The AFL-CIO has the trailer parked outside the convention center here in Corpus Christi for the duration of the Democrats' state convention.
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