Governor Perry vetoed 49 (was it 49?) bills last week. There hasn't been a lot of uproar. I mean if Terri Hodge is the best you can get to give you a quote then it's pretty sad. Perry used his line-item veto power to reduce the budget by $570 million, according to a press release from the governor's office. One casualty of the line-item veto was $154 million in health insurance coverage for the 2008-09 budget year for community colleges. When the governor's office claimed that community colleges were 'padding their numbers' to get money, he pissed off some of that 39% left that like him.

"Each school is responsible for its own budget, and the governor finally put his foot down — he warned the community colleges that this would happen if they didn't stop this practice," Black said.

Holda said he is baffled by Perry's action, and his college did not falsify any employee information.

Steve Johnson, spokesman for the Texas Association of Community Colleges, said Perry's decision was a surprise.

"How dare the governor say we are falsifying information," Johnson said.