This Bus for Sex Offenders Only
Tod Robberson advises The Dallas Morning News' editors not to act hastily in ridiculing the notion that the governor's office wants to weed out sex offenders and other dangerous individuals during mass evacuations due to hurricanes and other disasters.
Steve McCraw, the state's director of homeland security, says the state plans to use a portable magnetic card-swiping system to do background checks and print wristbands for all evacuees.
I'm sorry, I don't know how to be diplomatic about it. Steve McCraw is a fool. The problem during Katrina wasn't a lack of portable magnetic card-swiping readers. It was a lack of buses, a lack of drivers, a lack of National Guardsman, a lack of EMTs, and, not least, a total lack of leadership that failed to implement the disaster planning that the city/state/federal agencies had all practiced for just a year earlier. Dig into this some more and I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't someone planning to make a lot of money selling the state a bunch of portable magnetic card-swiping readers that'll get lost in a warehouse somewhere.
DART Working Hard to Hide A Billion Dollars
Jim Schutze is still digging into the billion dollars that DART discovered is missing. Yesterday, he told us that DART scrambled to sweep planned tunnels and downtown lines under the rug to make the books look good again. Today, he's filed a request under the Public Information Act for the contracts DART has with its primary contractor, Archer Western. The scrambling at DART continues, with DART appealing to Texas Attorney General for an exemption to fulfilling that request. Jim Schutze is calling for a public audit. Stay tuned.
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