Budget Cuts Cause Cops To Cut W.'s Extra Security

The Dallas Morning News:

The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush.

In addition to the usual Secret Service protection, Dallas until last week had stationed one on-duty tactical officer per eight-hour shift on the street outside the president's home. The estimated cost of that service was $300,000 for about a year, according to police officials who asked that they not be named.

Read the whole story: The Dallas Morning News

Comments

[jeffrey678]

Ex-President Bush should pay for the whole cost. His Republican friends want to cut Federal spending, why not here first.

[the964kid]

They should not waste one dime on that guy - hasn't he cost tax payers enough money and lives??!

[lungfish]

Plenty of protection in prison. Bars to keep out the bad guys, three meals a day... free tattoos...

[Pleneras]

Where are all the whiners on OUR President O taking his family for free to Russia? Bush has enough Blackwater and Halliburton investment profits "thanks to our trillions in tax dollars" to pay for his own protection!

[Roxanna]

I think that is perfectly fine....

If George wants more special; security he can pay for it by himself.

[coug1]

AMEN.

[twilight druid]

George should hire blackwater (or whatever they are calling themselves these days). Oh wait. That would be out of his own pocket instead of the tax payers money.

[twilight druid]

LOL

Well Bush wrecked the economy so I guess this is fitting.

I wonder if W will ever touch anything without wrecking it?

[lungfish]

Hasn't yet. Tanked every biz he ever was involved with, can't even prove he served in honorably in the Nat Guard....