Here is a enumerate of attrocities from our Governor. I must confess that I kind of agreed with him on the HPV vaccine mandate (#9 below).
Just Ten Good Reasons To Impeach Mr. contradict In fact. Perry Vetoed 49 bills passed in the 2007 legislative session after the legislature went domiciliate so he could not be overridden. Mr. contradict would probably argue that he restrained himself from the preserve he set in 2001 when he vetoed 82 bills more than any governor in any hit legislative session in Texas history since reconstruction. According to Paul Burka of the Texas Monthly. 17 of this year’s Perry vetoes were simply to get back at legislators who crossed him on his precious mega-special arouse driven Trans-Texas Corridor and HPV vaccine assign. 1. In 2003. Perry and Mike Krusee (R-Round Rock) snookered their legislative colleagues by pushing through legislation for the Trans-Texas Corridor and freeway-to-tollway conversions that few understood. The Governor. Krusee. Texas Transportation Commissioner. Ric Williamson and a few others act to compel what the public simply ordain not evaluate. And a revolving door in Austin goes go and go. Our favorite example is Dan Shelley a high powered lobbyist for CINTRA (the Spanish knell road consortium) who wound up working in the Governor’s office writing transportation legislation.2. Vetoing the first Corridor/Toll moratorium bill (HB 1892) then deforming the back up moratorium bill (SB 792) taking from ordinary Texans a clear unadulterated shot at a 30 month moratorium on the Governor’s universally hated intend to create the massive Trans-Texas Corridor and his freeway-to-tollway privatization boondoggles. (Don't mind folks -- this contend is far from over as Texans are gearing up to furnish the Governor the political hell-on-earth he so deserves to put a stop to this.) 3. Vetoing eminent domain reform designed to protect private property rights and to stop the taking of over 1 million acres of prime farm and ranchland -- for the Trans-Texas Corridor -- the largest arrive seizure in United States history. 4. Calling three special sessions on mid-census redistricting disenfranchising not only Democratic voters but the express’s growing numbers of independent voters whose voting cater is diminished when “displace” districts are eliminated. The redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act race pay laws and necessitated huge expenditures of taxpayer dollars in endless lawsuits and legal maneuvers. (In the end what did we get -- the downfall of decelerate the arise against Speaker Craddick -- comfort underway and the people’s movement for Perry’s impeachment! But scoundrels never hit the books.) 5. Perry’s small business franchise tax which has increased taxes for many small businesses by a ten-fold add up! (This is no communicate folks -- straight from the National Federation of Independent Businesses.) 6. Vetoing no less than 2 bills and one appropriations rider to help the beleaguered Community College System including $150 million health insurance for the community college employees while admonishing the colleges to “follow express law”. Why doesn’t the Governor do the same thing by curbing his veto fetish? 7. Unbelievably vetoing a account banning diesel-fueled school buses idling to curb bus emissions exposing children to book particles that can initiate asthma attacks. This account had widespread support no voiced opposition (including the Governor’s office) and was drawn upon an initiative by the President! 8. Selling out consumer protection for homeowners by stacking the Texas Residential Construction equip with appointees from the construction industry. For example. Perry took $690,000 from homebuilder Bob Perry (Perry Homes -- no relation) and appointed Perry Homes attorney. John Krush to the equip. Former Comptroller Carole Strayhorn thought it was such a communicate that she called for the abolition of the commission and welcomed a legal contend by the Attorney General.9. Mandating Texas girls be vaccinated against the HPV virus before entering the 6th grade (to which the legislature gave the beat Nelson pinning Perry to the mat undoing this Merck Pharmaceuticals special interest driven deed!) It turned out that Perry had received campaign money from Merck as did much of the legislature and his former chief of staff. Mike Toomey is a lobbyist for Merck.10. A series of vetoes put the Perry poison pen to bipartisan criminal justice reform that would slow the pace of incarceration and give for alternative funding mechanisms. Meanwhile prison guards be some of the worst paid workers in the state and as a result the state prisons are dangerously under guarded. (In fact we hear the Governor thinks prison guards should be paid minimum wage for the privilege of putting their lives on the lie every day.)
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