Another plus:
“In June, Perry signed a largely symbolic bill that allows Texas companies to continue producing incandescent light bulbs banned by the EPA, as long as they are sold within the state. Texas is the only state that has refused to put in place the EPA’s new rules regulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.”
He doesn’t want to allow the EPA to wreck the economy.
“a largely symbolic bill”
That’s how business as usual Republicans do it.
Make conservative sounding speeches to play with our emotions and take symbolic actions like this one on EPA regs.
Jan Brewer in Arizona did a good one with the symbolic SB 1070 to win her re-election and it got tied up in the courts without being enforced meaning it was ultimately useless.
The games politicians play and Perry is the latest player.