The head of a liberal advocacy group is raising questions why Gov. Rick Perry was announcing?that a Dallas medical center would be a beneficiary of cancer research money even before creation of the state agency charged with deciding how?money would be spent.?Glenn Smith of the Progress Texas Political Action Committee notes that Texas voters approved a bond issue authorizing $3 billion for cancer research in November 2007. But as The Dallas Morning News reported a month later, in December 2007, Perry attended a reception in Highland Park with family members of the late Mary Crowley, whose grandson David Shanahan was president of the Mary Crowley Medical Research Center. At that gathering, Perry announced some of the?cancer research?money would go to the center. Smith noted that?the full agency with its oversight and decision-making apparatus was not even?in place yet.??A month after voters approved the bonds, Perry was already handing out proceeds like it was his candy to give away.?
Shanahan did subsequently receive $12.8 million in cancer-research grants through two private entities he formed instead of the Mary Crowley center. The Dallas Morning News? James Drew and Sue Goetinck Ambrose reported that Shanahan got the cancer-resarch grants after he and his associates gave $90,000 in campaign contributions to Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. The two News reporters first broke the stories revealing problems at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.?Shanahan and Perry?s office have denied?through spokesmen any connection between the political contributions and the state grants. But?allegations of political cronyism and failure of the agency to?follow proper protocols in distributing grants have prompted investigations by state and Travis County authorities and a legislative inquiry.?As Sue Goetinck Ambrose reports, Perry, Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus have now called for a moratorium on future grants until the agency fully addresses concerns.
The investigtions of CPRIT comes as?its chief scientist and dozens of others who evaluated proposals have quit amid concerns that politics has infected the agency. In addition to Shanahan, other Perry financial supporters have received cancer-research grants.
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