Texas governor is the weakest in the Union. By design. He can't even pardon criminals without permission from a board.
About the only thing a governor can do is sign legislation, call out the State guard, and run his yap.
Most powerful political position in the State of Texas is Lt. Governor.
He runs stuff.
Nope. I won't vote for Perry for anything. Ever.
He's a liberal, just like Dewhurst was, and we just fired Dewhurst.
/johnny
And he endorsed Dewhurst instead of Cruz. If Perry had his way Cruz would never have made it to Washington. That's just one way that Rick Perry has proven he is no conservative. The list is long, of course.