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Wednesday, April 9, 2003
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THE BATTALK
AG: Perry must release
zero-based budget drafts
By Connie Mabin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN —Texas Attorney
General Greg Abbott’s office
ruled Tuesday that Gov. Rick
Perry must release to the public
drafts of the state budget his
office was working on before
he came up with his zero-based
budget.
Assistant Attorney General
June Harden wrote in a four-page
opinion that Texas law requires
that the documents be disclosed.
Responding to requests from
The Associated Press, the San
Antonio Express-News and the
Austin American-Statesman, the
governor’s office stated in a
February letter that draft budget
copies and other related materials
should be kept private because of
exceptions in the Texas Public
Information Act.
Disclosing the documents
would discourage the “frank
exchange of information among
government staff and agencies,”
Perry’s office contended in ask
ing for an attorney general’s opin
ion on the matter.
Perry spokeswoman Kathy
Walt said the office was in the
process of retrieving the docu
ments and would make them
available to reporters by April 22.
The opinion said Perry had 10
days to notify the news organiza
tions of his intent to release the
material. Perry could have sued to
challenge the ruling.
The records comprise “literal
ly tens of thousands of pages,”
Walt said. “That’s what we’re
starting to pull together.”
The ruling by Abbott’s office
was applauded by open govern
ment advocates.
“That’s good news. It would
seem that the law’s very clear on
this subject and I’m sure the
governor will want to follow the
law and release the records
promptly,” said Donnis Baggett,
publisher and editor of the
Bryan-College Station Eagle.
“The public has a definite
right to know and a need to know
how he arrived at his numbers,”
said Baggett, who’s also vice
president of the Texas Daily
Newspaper Association.
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know and a need to
know how he
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Bryan-College Station Eagle
The three news organizations
made their requests separately
over a nine-day span in January
after Perry proposed on Jan. 17
that Texas spend nothing in the
next two fiscal years.
Perry’s proposal listed
amounts spent in previous
budget years in each category,
such as education and public
safety, and then recommended
zero be spent on that item for
the coming two-year cyde
Perry, a Republican, descii
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agency against every fun:
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budget cuts.
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budget recommendation he
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point budget.” he said. “Iwi
out a budget for the Legislate
work with, work with us.”
Perry said his budget prop
would be based on available
enue, or the amount of money
comptroller says state lawma
have to spend in fiscal yt
2004-05. He did not rule out
but would not be specific.
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DALLAS (AP) — Labor leaders at American
Airlines warn that workers could reject conces
sions designed to save the world’s largest carrier
from bankruptcy, but the company has declined to
renegotiate the deals.
Results of the voting by employees are expected
by April 15, and a company spokesman said
Tuesday that American would file for bankruptcy
“very soon” if any of the unions reject concessions,
which total more than $1.6 billion a year.
Leaders of unions representing pilots, flight
attendants and mechanics struck last-minute deals
March 31 as American executives warned that the
company’s lawyers were minutes from marching
into bankruptcy court.
Now, the deadline deals are running into
criticism.
The deal would result in layoffs for 2,501
American’s 12,000 pilots. Those remaining
take a pay cut of 23 percent the first year
slightly smaller 17 percent cut the remainii*
years. They would get stock options and
es in later years of the contract.
“Bankruptcy is not a pretty option, butit»’
be a worse deal that what we’re voting on now/
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agreement.
Even if the unions ratify the wage and to
cuts — part of American’s plan to cut overall sfi
ing by $4 billion a year — the company could
wind up in bankruptcy, “and then those si
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