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Bills Mount For Rick Perry’s Security Detail
The state’s bill for providing security for Gov. Rick Perry during his GOP presidential campaign are growing.
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AUSTIN (January 27, 2012)--The state's bill for providing security for
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's presidential campaign is nearly $800,000 and growing, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report released Thursday that shows the cost of travel expenses for the security detail for Perry and his wife, Anita, was $798,031 from September through part of November.
The San Antonio Express News reported that most of that bill was for out-of-state trips and the security tab for travel outside Texas was more than $1.1 million from Perry's November 2010 re-election to this November.
Remaining security detail costs to the end of Perry's presidential campaign last week will be detailed in future DPS reports.
Democrats have called for the GOP governor to reimburse the state.
Perry has said he shouldn't because he promotes Texas wherever he goes.
