In the Burnt Orange Report, there was an article about how Governor Rick Perry approved a $4.5 million award to a company that was founded by one of Perry's major contributors.The biggest problem with this award is that the company failed to win the endorsement of a regional screening board. Perry's representative said that there were no conflicts because " the law establishing the tech fund allows applicants to appeal decisions by regional reviewers". The opinion that the writers at at BurntOrangeReport had was that it was illegal and Perry lied about being able to give the award. They did their research and found out that there were no mention of law in such appeals. This blog piece did not have too much editorial but a lot of text from news clips were highlighted to show their viewpoint. It is obvious that Burnt Orange Report is supporting Bill White for the governor's race this November. They also posted a video highlighting Perry's corruption during his tenure as the governor of Texas.
I do agree with Burnt Orange Report's viewpoints that Governor Perry should not have awarded the money without proper endorsements.It is especially bad since the founder is one of Perry's major financial contributors. I think the blog should have tried to find a source or some opinion that balanced out their anti Perry viewpoint but this is obviously a liberal blog.This November race is going to be exciting and with different blogs trying to influence the constituents, it would be interesting to see how much effects do these blogs really have and what are their opinions after the election is over.
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