Via Sam Stein,
Houston Chronicle, June 9, 1994:
[Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry] also took a swipe at [Governor Ann] Richards, whose staff shredded some phone records last year after misreading state rules on archiving public documents.
"My staff knows the difference between a file cabinet and a paper shredder,'' Perry said.
Yet seventeen years later, they apparently they haven't heard of a backup hard drive, because Rick Perry's office automatically deletes all staffer emails after seven days.