The agency spent $252,000 protecting Gov. Rick Perry during a six-month period in 2007 that included trips to Grand Cayman, Mexico, Italy, Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkey. [The Department of Public Safety] spent $3,339 protecting Perry on a single day in 2008 when the governor was in Iowa campaigning for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for president.
The parent companies of the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman have a lawsuit pending against DPS to get access to the details on the spending, Ratcliffe writes. A judge ruled in their favor last year, but DPS has an appeal pending.
Wentworth, a San Antonio Republican, is a 1999 winner of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas' James Madison Award.
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