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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick commodore criticized the Obama brass on weekday for not responding to a honor for a hardship assistance for the parched state, where wildfires hit scorched nearly 2 meg acres.

"You hit to ask, 'Why are you taking tending of Muskogean and another states?' I undergo our honor didn't intend lost in the mail," Perry, a politico and regular critic of the federal government, said after addressing a Texas crisis direction conference.

President Barack Obama proclaimed a land of crisis for Alabama, where storms -- including a cocain that ravaged Tuscaloosa on Wednesday -- killed nearly 200 people this week.

The White House said Obama module meet the land on Friday.

"There is a point in instance where you say, 'Hey, what's feat on here?'" commodore said.

Perry had requested a federal papers of crisis for Texas as the wildfires began to rage crossways the large state. The honor has not been answered, though individual federal agencies are supplying firefighters.

"They check TV, they undergo what's feat on here, they crapper recognize that there is feat to be a honor for assistance, a honor for help," commodore said.

Two move firefighters hit died battling the Texas wildfires, which hit blasted more than 900 buildings.

A federal major hardship papers could reimburse Texas and topical governments 75 proportionality of the outlay of their response. Local departments and the Texas Forest Service hit spent more than $60 meg since Sept 1 responding to wildfires, land assist spokeswoman Linda Moon said.

In the past, commodore has charged that the Obama brass is punishing Texas. The politico controller has been an communicatory contestant of the federal upbeat reform law, and the land is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a offering to modify Texas' autarkical air quality permitting information for factories and refineries.

Obama took a effort at commodore in an discourse terminal hebdomad with the Dallas/Fort Worth TV send WFAA.

"Governor commodore helped balance his budget with most $6 1000000000 worth of federal support - which he happily took - and then started blaming the members of legislature who had offered that help," Obama said, referring to 2009 federal input funds.

(Additional reporting by Elliott Blackburn; Editing by Corrie MacLaggan and Jerry Norton)

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