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Governor Good-hair has a 39% percent mandate to succeed TX from the Union. What a joke of a Governor...say what you want about the two party system, but it was the 2 party system's failure that allowed Mr. 39% to burn down the Governor's Mansion...
The most powerful governor in recent Texas history
SAN ANGELO, Texas — “It was bad enough when Rick Perry went to meddling in the affairs of Texas A&M. But now the governor’s messing with three of Texas’ university systems. What does the Republican think our colleges are, his playground?”
— Dallas News
“Gov. Rick Perry’s ... upcoming primary battle (with) Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has already highlighted the cronyism at work in Perry’s regent-appointment process, with regents who publicly support Hutchison suddenly stepping down, some citing political pressure. ...
“Perry’s political machine is unparalleled in recent Texas history. It has made him the longest-serving governor in Texas history. It has also jeopardized education in Texas and will continue to do so until Perry is removed from office or appropriate checks are placed on the governor’s power to sell higher education to the highest bidder.”
— The Daily Texan
“Sadly, the governor’s actions appear to be in the best interest of his political future and not in the best interest of Texas higher education.”
— San Antonio Express-News
Be for me, or quit.
Regents at Texas Tech, the University of Texas, and Texas A&M say agents of Gov. Rick Perry pressured them to quit as regents if they had signed on with Hutchison’s challenge to Perry.
Some resigned, fearing they might hurt their ins utions.
Some UT regents said Perry suggested they support as chancellor AT&T executive John Montford, a former Senate Appropriations Committee chairman and Texas Tech chancellor. (For the record, Montford is well-respected and very qualified.)
They instead chose Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, a transplant surgeon who headed the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio.
The Texas Cons ution of 1876 was a reaction to the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, when a string of Republican governors imposed iron rule on Texas and other states that had seceded.
Texans who didn’t side with the Union hated having Texas run by powerful and often autocratic governors. So as Reconstruction was being lifted, a majority of delegates to a cons utional convention sought to decentralize power and diminish the governor’s role.
Terms for statewide officials were set at two years. The governor’s only cabinet appointee was the secretary of state. Other statewide officials, including the lieutenant governor, attorney general and others, were elected independently of the governor.
Most state agencies were overseen by boards and commissions, with staggered six-year terms. The governor could appoint members of those bodies, but because of the staggered terms, a governor would have to be into a third two-year term before he would have appointed all their members.
The first governor to serve the six years needed to appoint every board member was conservative Democrat Allan Shivers. He moved up from lieutenant governor in mid-1949, when in bent Democrat Gov. Beauford Jester died half a year into his second term.
Shivers won three more terms. When he left after seven and a half years, he had appointed every board and commission member, plus filled three vacancies on the Texas Supreme Court.
After that, governors who served six consecutive years included Democrats Price Daniel Sr., John Connally, Dolph Briscoe (one two-year term and one four-year term, as Texas shifted in 1974 to four-year terms for most nonjudicial statewide offices), and Republican George W. Bush. So each had the opportunity to fill every board slot.
Republican Bill Clements won two four-year terms, but they were not successive.
Perry filled out the last two years of Bush’s term and was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. He has now been governor for eight years and nine months — the longest in Texas history — and wants to extend his tenure to 14 years.
When he fills an upcoming Supreme Court vacancy, he will have appointed six of the nine court members, though several have since been elected.
Perry has not only appointed every board member and regent, but now can choose not to reappoint those who back Hutchison — which he has done to some of them.
It’s ironic that the cons ution writers wanted to set limits on a governor’s power. Perry, who has missed no chance to condemn the federal government, is now doing in Texas pretty much what the cons ution’s framers hoped to limit.
He is the government.
Governor Good-hair has a 39% percent mandate to succeed TX from the Union. What a joke of a Governor...say what you want about the two party system, but it was the 2 party system's failure that allowed Mr. 39% to burn down the Governor's Mansion...
If Rick Perry wins again, all hope is lost for TX. The guy is a complete political puppet. If there's a kickback in it for himself, he's all over it.
TX is safe because the GOP doesn't give a about worker's rights....so wages and benefits will remain LOW...
That by itself is ing stupid. Unless you believe in the ing Santa Claus Party. Mother er you are a moron.
Well people keep moving here and the unemployment rate is well below the national average, so evidently there's got to be some redeeming factors here in Texas for those GOP neglected, yet employed souls.
Texas has done pretty damn well under Perry.
But, I have to agree with the gist of the article. Even if I like Perry, and laughed out loud at his secessionist talk (I liked that too...) too much power in one persons hands is a problem.
I will probably vote for Perry again to have someone strong to face the feds in the next few yrs (we're gonna need someone not willing to back down from them for at least the next 3 yrs. and K has been part of the problem for too long.) But, after that, I'd support making sure we don't allow this much power into the governers mansion again (after all, next time it might be someone I don't like.)
But, I may change my mind again if we secede.
"Texas has done pretty damn well under Perry."
... meaning "because of Perry"?
TX has a very high number of illegals and drug traffic, I think second after CA. Therefore, TX does pretty damn well because of the illegals?
Yea, Texas has done pretty damn well under Perry because of drugs and illegals.
"Texas has done pretty damn well under Perry because of drugs and illegals"
... just a plausible that TX has done well BECAUSE of Perry.
Ayup...it's just as plausible that Texas has done as well under Perry because of Drugs and Illegals as because of Perry himself.
Your off talking point now - quit interjecting reality into perfectly fine propaganda...
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