Former Perry aide Delisi derides Hutchison over toll road plan
- Thursday, August 13, 2009, 11:38
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By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
mlindenberger@dallasnews.com
If U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison doesn’t like how Gov. Rick Perry and the state transportation department are building highways, then she should come up with a better idea, the state’s top transportation official – and former Perry aide – said Wednesday.
Deirdre Delisi, Perry’s former chief of staff whom he tapped last year to oversee the 13,000-employee transportation agency, defended one of her old boss’s most controversial legacies – his push for private toll roads – as necessary if Texas is to build the roads its growing population requires.
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