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“I regret that we move forward in putting $50 million into an Emerging Technology Fund when we are line-item vetoing $7.5 million in public integrity.”
– Rep. Sylvester Turner, on the irony of the governor killing Public Integrity Unit funding while siphoning public dollars for a controversial pet project
This article appears in June 21 • 2013.
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