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Perry did not call a special session to abolish sanctuary cities. The special session was called because the Democrats filibustered the budget. Perry just added sanctuary cities to the session because he knew it would look good on his resume and because he knew that the sanctuary cities bill being pushed by Texas Republicans doesn't have any teeth--it makes a statement but doesn't actually do anything.

Of course "makes a statement but doesn't actually do anything" pretty accurately sums up Perry's style of governing. He talks like a conservative but seldom backs up that talk with real action. He's a master of verbal slight-of-hand. He gets everybody talking about his sanctuary cities bill so that nobody's looking at the fact that he supported in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. He gets everybody talking about his day of prayer so that nobody's looking at the fact that he issued an executive order requiring sixth-grade girls to be inoculated against a sexually transmitted disease. He gets everybody talking about the fact that he said Texans might someday want to secede from the union so that nobody's looking at the fact that he folded like a cheap suit as soon as the TSA started talking tough about a Republican-backed "anti-groping" bill (which he now refuses to add to the special session). He gets everybody talking about how he (supposedly) shot a coyote (that nobody ever found) on an Austin jogging trail so that nobody notices that he let the Democrats (in a legislature that's 2/3 Republican) block a popular (supported by 90% of Republicans) gun rights bill (which he now refuses to add to the special session).

Perry is a moderate who wants to look conservative, as long as that's what the voters want to see. If and when he runs, he'll play an uber-conservative during the primaries and a moderate alternative to Barack Obama during the general election. And if elected, he'll be whatever the highest bidder wants him to be.

Perry just added sanctuary cities to the session because he knew it would look good on his resume and because he knew that the sanctuary cities bill being pushed by Texas Republicans doesn't have any teeth

Mostly true, but he put it on the agenda in the regular session expecting it to die.

Then a lie-berul representette enscroviated the pooch by filibustering the budget bill to death and running out the clock during the regular session (possibly because so many senior Dims have been retired by the voters; the Texas house of representatives is now 2/3's Pubbie).

Because she messed up, the immigration/sanctuary bill came back to life under obscure procedural rules of the Texas Lege, and now Perry may be faced with having to veto a live immigration bill, something he doesn't want to have to do, but might be backed into doing by the house Republicans.

The Republicans have a narrow edge in the state senate, so the Dims and Gov. Perry and the RiNOcratic plutocracy (the OBL) will probably try to stop it there.

Let’s not forget that his immigration b.s. in the special session did not include E-Verify, as it did in other states? Could that be because he wants to keep the border’s big agribusinesses on his side come fundraising events? Or is he only against illegal immigration when it comes to local governments defying state governments?

Back in the day, Southerners who study history—and especially Texans—thought that local governments should have the most power as they were the most connected to the people. Rick doesn’t believe that and his disinterest in devolution of state power is 100% clear, as he has had two and a half terms to start dissolving the top-down control in Texas, and hasn’t done squat other than build it further.