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Audit determines [TX Comptroller] Strayhorn donors had tax bills cut
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Sep 09, 2005 02:55pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Houston Chronicle |
| News Date | Friday, September 9, 2005 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By POLLY ROSS HUGHES
Copyright 2005
Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
AUSTIN - Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn reduced tax bills by $461 million for companies contributing to her political campaign, a practice lawmakers should consider banning, according to a critical state audit released Thursday.
Strayhorn insists the audit, required under a state law passed in 2003, was inspired by Gov. Rick Perry, her Republican rival in the upcoming gubernatorial primary.
"It was a political witch hunt from the beginning, costing taxpayers unknown thousands of dollars, and it found nothing," Strayhorn said.
But Perry campaign spokesman Robert Black said the findings reveal a "growing cancer" at the comptroller's office and "possibly the biggest political scandal in a generation." |
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