Rick Perry a hypocrite?

The article I read was a commentary in the Austin American Statesmen. The article was written by State Rep. Jim Dunnam. In the article Dunnam says that Rick Perry is a hypocrite to Texans and lying to all of the public. Dunnam states that Perry has been one of the longest state employees in the state of Texas for about 20 years full time and 6 years part time. Dunnam quotes Perry in the article when Perry says, “I'm anti-government, I'm an outsider,” and Dunnam says once you say something long enough and loud enough people must think it’s true. He believes many people don’t know how long he been in the Texas government. Dunnam states that Perry is a hypocrite first off by saying that Perry lives in a 10,000 dollar a month, taxpayer-funded mansion, yet he is against out-of-control government spending. Dunnam says how in a recent article Perry refused to allow Texas schools to compete for federal “Race to the Top” funds which are over 4 billion in grants, "Keep your money!" Perry yells, "We Texans aren't having you tell us what to do!" But reality is that over the next two years Perry just signed a budget that Texas will accept $65 billion in federal funds all with strings attached. Dunnam also says his “art of deception” can best be seen when he handle the stimulus plan, when Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill, Perry personally requested and received $14 billion in federal money. Then Perry spends the next six months loudly rejecting over $500 million in stimulus unemployment funds. This resulted in Texas with a $1.6 billion short fall in the Federal Unemployment Trust Fund and Texas faces highest state unemployment tax rate in 20 years. Dunnam also states how when Perry hand-picked education commissioner, Robert Scott he said before the House committee, “(The) thing that actually got me pretty excited was not just the stimulus money... There is another pot of money coming called 'Race to the Top.' This focuses on some really high goals and getting states to compete against each other to meet those goals for kids." Now both Perry and Scott are ignoring the issue like it was never said since Perry campaign theme is "all things Washington are evil." Dunnam then gives facts about our school system in Texas and how since Perry has been governor that Texas is number 2 in public school enrollment, but 49th in teacher pay, 46th in SAT scores, 50th in residents with a high school diploma, 41st in high school graduation rates and 47th in state percentage of state revenue spent on public education. Dunnam ends his argument with what he believes is that Rick Perry is trying to advance his political career and not think about the good for Texas, and how Perry says he against Washington yet he still takes federal money and hides it behind his loud words. I think Dunnam’s audience is all the Texas public who cares about school system and how Rick Perry is lying, maybe not all the time but to make it look like he is the good guy in the situation and everyone else outside of Texas is bad. Dunnam wants to inform the reader think before you vote for your governor and how all these stats about our school system compared to the rest of the 50 states. The author’s creditability seems strong even though its much opinion based article he does prove some facts from other articles written about Perry and gives detail about the school system rankings. I can believe Dunnam because is the chairman of the House Select Committee on Federal Economic Stabilization Funding, so if anybody should know about funding in Texas he would be the first one to turn to.