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Sunday, August 27, 2006 Records Show Taxpayers Paid For Six Henry Trips Four trips included OU football games
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Taxpayers paid for six out-of-state trips taken last year by Governor Brad Henry, including one to a Las Vegas convention for an Oklahoma-based legal firm.
The Oklahoman's investigation of state records indicated that taxpayers spent more than 46-thousand-dollars as Henry traveled to four University of Oklahoma football games, a show in Washington and the convention in October for Ada-based Pre-Paid Legal Services.
Records show Pre-Paid Legal had contributed almost 100-thousand-dollars to Henry's re-election campaign.
Henry, a Democrat, defended the cost of the trips, saying he was, quote, "going to work."
He says the trips were in his official capacity as governor of the state.
Henry's football trips last year were to O-U games against Southern California in the Orange Bowl, Texas, Nebraska and Oregon in the Holiday Bowl.
The four trips cost taxpayers about 31-thousand-dollars.
He says he tries to conduct business when he travels outside Oklahoma for games.
*Out of state travel costs for Gov. Brad Henry between August 2003 to December 2004 totaled $14,702.
Posted at 8/27/2006 02:22:00 AM  
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