http:<br/>www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6610804.html
Sep 10, 2009
One of them is former Texas Tech regent Mark Griffin. By his own account, after Griffin endorsed Hutchison, the Lubbock businessman received a wake-up call from Perry's former chief of staff, Brian Newby, who told him that the governor “expects loyalty out of his appointees.” Griffin says he asked Newby if Perry wanted him to resign, and the answer was yes. “I felt like staying on would put the institution at risk,” Griffin told the Associated Press, “and I'm not willing to put the university at risk.”