Report: Privatizing good for lobbyists, bad for taxpayers
Source: By ROBERT T. GARRETT, The Dallas Morning News (TX), Thursday, July 19, 2007
Texas' efforts to hand off social services duties to private companies have enriched lobbyists while hurting poor people and wasting tax dollars, a watchdog group said Wednesday. Over the past decade, 13 companies ultimately hired by the state after four big pushes toward privatization paid 102 lobbyists between $4.5 million and $11.3 million, according to a report by Texans for Public Justice.