I’ve heard absolutely nothing about who will be the new Governor of Texas in January.
Who will it be? What kind of guy is he?
The Lieutenant Governor will become Governor. Unlike a Vice President, this guy actually has quite a bit of power in his present position.
The Lt. Gov. is named Rick Perry, http://www.rickperry.org/menu_bar1.html
Rick Perry is a pretty good guy and pretty popular. He’s been around awhile.
Much more practical power than the Governor, actually.
IIRC, the Texas Lt. Governor has absolute control over either which bills are considered by the Legislature, or over whether or not the bills will even be voted on.
The Texas Gov. has nowhere near that kind of power, and is sort of a figurehead position when compared to the Lt. Governor & the Railroad Commissioner.
All of the above is true. Thank goodness, because Rick Perry is even dumber than Bush (if that’s possible).
Rick Perry is the Lt. Governor and will become governor when the current governor (let’s call him Shrub) resigns. The Lite Guv in Texas actually has all the power. Shrub hasn’t run anything more complex than a baseball team, and now he’s to be the president of “One Nation.” Too bad he can’t remember the name of it.
Anyway, Texas senators are jockeying for position. Now they get to elect from among themselves the new Lite Guv. That’s the guy who will actually run Texas government in the upcoming legislative session. (The Lege meets for 140 days every two years. Some say it should be two days every one hundred forty years.)
As for a Rick Perry – I’m not sure he’s the sharpest tool in the shed. Recently, a state troopers dash-cam recorded his giving her (the trooper) a verbal lashing of the “don’t you know who I am” variety. She was giving his driver a warning for going some twenty miles over the speed limit. She wasn’t even giving him a ticket, but she wasn’t doing it fast enough for Perry’s liking. He jumped out of the passanger side of the Suburban and urged her to hurry up with whatever she needed to do so that they could “get on down the road.” This was all broadcast on Austin television stations.
What a jerk. To her credit, the young trooper was very professional it what must have been a very stressful situation for her. What little respect I had for Perry vanished at that moment.