Lockyear on Texas’ Hidden $27 Bil Deficit: Someone Turned on the Lights in the Bar and Texas ‘Doesn’t Look So Pretty Anymore’

Someone just turned the lights on in the bar, and the sexiest state doesn’t look so pretty anymore.

– California Treasurer Bill Lockyear, a Democrat, reacting to news that Texas had been hiding a $27 billion deficit for over a year while both Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry and California GOP candidate for governor Meg Whitman lambasted California’s deficit and touted Texas as a “miracle” of fiscal responsibility.