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Audit: Texas Improperly Spent Terror Funds

Sat Jan 8,10:17 AM ET


AUSTIN, Texas - An audit of the state's spending of nearly $600 million in federal anti-terrorism funds found that some of the money was spent improperly, including to buy a trailer that was used to haul lawn mowers to "lawn mower drag races."



The state auditor's office pointed out several cases in which poor monitoring by the Texas Engineering Extension Service may have allowed abuse.


One county bought 18 radios and other communication equipment from a company owned by one of its county commissioners, according to the report released Thursday. Another jurisdiction used a trailer ostensibly bought as emergency equipment to haul lawn mowers to races, the report says.


State auditors have forwarded the case to their special investigation unit, which handles fraud, abuse and other criminal allegations.


The audit's findings mirror some of the weaknesses identified in a September report by The Dallas Morning News. The newspaper found that some cities used anti-terrorism funds to buy equipment for traffic stops, drug investigations and even community festivals.


The extension service said it agreed with many of the auditor's recommendations but that overall it had done an excellent job overseeing grants. It has begun requiring some grant recipients to report how they use equipment.

ahahahahahahahahaha

I reckon this could be the tip of the iceberg too


lawnmower races ahahahahahahaha

Guaranteed

What's the problem, a few people have their beaks in the trough. did you really believe these eople run for office for the good of the nation? :yowsa:

Required for the Redneck Roundup, to get them to attend home guard training!! Easilly justified in Texas... Cynic!


And dont start saying the whithouse would have ever imagined allowing everyone to rort the system helps buy silence!

Bloody malcontent, bleeding heart liberal Canadian!!!

""" When anybody says 'It's not the money, it's the principle' , they mean it's the money.""""


:)

Yes Prime Minister :wnw:

Yes Prime Minister :wnw: [/b][/quote]
ahahahahahahaha love that show :)

The scary part was Maggie Thatcher saying if you want a truthful account of Gov't/Politics , watch that show , its totally accurate. :)

I love this bit when The Cabinet Minister Sir Humphrey is arguing with a Cabinet Minister that doesn't understand why an agreement reached during the previous isn't being followed and yet some mebers of the Cabinet recall the discussion and some have chosen to forget the discussion.....


""""It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them, and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection; consequently we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials; from which it emerges with elegant inevitability, that any decision which has been officially reached would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, and any decisions which is not recorded in the minutes by the officials has not been officially reached, even if one or more members believe they can recollect it; so in this particular case, if the decision would have been officially reached, it would have been recorded officially in the minutes by the officials , and it isn't , so it wasn't." """

some day, I'm going to be a professional lawn mower racer
http://www.letsmow.com/

I have a Cub Cadet in my garage I've been meaning to supercharge ...

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was so taken by the Yes Minister series, that she wrote a sketch herself (together with her Press Secretary Bernard Ingham). In it she played the Prime Minister, Paul Eddington was playing Jim Hacker (Minister of the Department for Administrative Affairs) and Nigel Hawthorne played Sir Humphrey (Permanent Secretary of the Department for Administrative Affairs). It was played on the National Viewers and Listeners Awards 1984. Below is the script of this sketch and some excerpts in RealVideo.



http://www.yes-minister.com/video/thatcher.ram


more stuff


They were brilliant actors/scripts/shows.. they did the same sort of gags week after week.. and managed to keep it funny for years!

right!! :lol: