Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Charlie Geren says something stupid


"Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard
Is a proverb in the mouth of fools."
Proverbs 26:9

Last week, Konni Burton wrote an op-ed for the Trib slamming a deal for a Facebook data center in Tarrant County that was loaded with corporate welfare.  In response, Charlie Geren (possibly in a drunken stupor) accused Konni of saying something she never said.  Konni responded this morning on her website:
As many of you know, I have long been an opponent of corporate welfare and wealth redistribution. It’s particularly frustrating when I learn of government taking money from hardworking Texans right here in our community in order to put it into the pockets of politically-connected corporations.
Last Friday I wrote an op-ed bringing to light just how much money was taken from the public and small business owners and given to Facebook in the form of incentives – all for the commitment of 40 jobs.
After publishing my editorial, it was criticized on twitter by a couple of Texas reporters – Scott Braddock and Bud Kennedy. Not only did they profess that I was anti-business because of it, they also insinuated that my op-ed claimed Northwest ISD gave a tax discount to Facebook. Never did I even mention Northwest ISD.
In fact, all I said was money spent out of the Texas Budget goes toward public schools. I once again tweeted my op-ed to show that.
That’s when the most bizarre happened. Siding with the liberal media, Representative Charlie Geren took to twitter and tweeted that I had edited my original op-ed and excluded what these reporters were claiming. The problem for Geren is the op-ed was never edited, and I never made the reporters’ claims.
Read the whole thing here.

Bottom Line: Charlie's accusation is bizarre...was he drunk when he made it?!?

4 comments:

  1. Konni-- You Gotta Know-- If they don't have anything on you--"They'll Make It Up!!"
    That is a small porting of the corrupt liberal mind! To find more info on Liberals-- Check the deepest Pits of Hell! Stay After'm -- Ray

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  2. Konni, write an op-ed pondering how many bills Geren is going to get through the Senate in the 85th legislature.

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  3. Scott Braddock's whole business model is to get paid by the Lege. No wonder he's baffled that anyone would think it's not awesome.

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  4. Let me know if a good conservative steps up to run against Geren. I want to send him some money.

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