According to a report in the Dallas Morning News, one of Gov. Rick Perry's political operatives has asked Dallas City Hall for numerous documents concerning Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and her husband:

"'We're interested, as most Texans would be, in how Senator Bailout's husband's bond business has benefited from her job in D.C.,'" Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner told the DMN's Gromer Jeffers Jr. (The nickname, Jeffers writes, refers to the senator's support of the federal plan to help ailing banks.)

More from DMN:

Ray Hutchison said that the Perry campaign has filed such open records requests all across the state and that their fishing expedition was "stupid." He said that he has not benefited from his wife's position as senator. ...


The open records request, dated Feb. 24, asked Mayor Tom Leppert's office for copies of all letters, faxes, e-mails, phone messages, notes from phone calls or meetings, or any other documents in which Kay Bailey Hutchison's name appears with the words bond; bonds; funds; funding or project.

Gov. Rick Perry hasn't exactly gone out of his way to make all vital records public. But when it suits him, he's as nosy as any top-notch reporter.

Texas Watchdog contributing editor Matt Pulle contributed to this post.