San Antonio Express-News: Criticism of Gift Idea Sparks Second Thoughts
Clean Up Texas Politics | San Antonio Express-News: Criticism of Gift Idea Sparks Second Thoughts: "It was the thought that counted, not the cost of the present, recalled Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston.
Times have changed.
Bowing to criticism over what some considered over-the-top extravagance, members of one House committee backed away from their plan to contribute $600 each to send their chairman on an expense-paid fishing trip to Canada later this summer.
Instead, members of the House Regulated Industries Committee ponied up $100 each and gave their chairman, Phil King, R-Weatherford, fishing equipment, said Rep. Bob Hunter, R-Abilene, the committee's vice chairman.
'There is only six of us on the committee, so it would have been the $600 each that we were going to contribute,' to pay for the trip, Hunter said Thursday."
Times have changed.
Bowing to criticism over what some considered over-the-top extravagance, members of one House committee backed away from their plan to contribute $600 each to send their chairman on an expense-paid fishing trip to Canada later this summer.
Instead, members of the House Regulated Industries Committee ponied up $100 each and gave their chairman, Phil King, R-Weatherford, fishing equipment, said Rep. Bob Hunter, R-Abilene, the committee's vice chairman.
'There is only six of us on the committee, so it would have been the $600 each that we were going to contribute,' to pay for the trip, Hunter said Thursday."
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