Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013
… It can’t be emphasized enough that taxpayers learned they are footing Perry’s double-dipping in collecting a monthly retirement annuity as well as his annual salary of almost $133,000 only because he had to report those sources of income, along with amounts, on federal documents when he ran for president in 2011. …
Rep. Chris Turner, R-Grand Prairie, already has filed HB 413, which would bar elected officials from simultaneously collecting a state salary and a pension resulting from that service.
That would be preferable. But if the Legislature doesn’t outlaw the practice, the public is at least entitled to know who’s doing it, in case voters want to unelect any elected officials who are overindulging at the public trough. …
