David Covucci over at the entertaining FOIAball spends time filing, paying for, and reading the fruits of open records requests that are usually sports-related. This week, he talked a lot about meat and about how UT treats VIPs in general and Matthew McConaughey in particular.
You can read the entire post here, but here are some facts gleaned from what he learned about the Oscar winner’s trip to Dallas to catch the Red River Rivalry game, which is held during the State Fair of Texas.
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- It takes nine people to make sure David Wooderson gets from his private jet to the Cotton Bowl sidelines.
- They sounded a little put out that McConaughey didn’t have an escort from the Dallas Police Department from the private jet to the stadium: “Since we don’t have a police escort it’s a tad harder to get him in,” one email said.
- His consultant, a former FBI guy, promptly cc’d two DPD deputy chiefs (names redacted) and the Cotton Bowl head of security, who…