I’m just going by memory here, but didn’t the Sanctuary Cities Bill that Perry brought to the Special Session in Austin die on June 23rd?
IIRC, there were some tea party members who were pushing for a 2nd Special Session..keep calling a Special Session until the Sanctuary Cities bill is passed.
Perry did not call a 2nd Special Session because of the cost of calling yet another Special Session of the TX legislature. I was thinking the tab for the first one was something like 1.23 million or some amount, but this is just from memory, so that amount may be off.
I realize some Tea Partiers were of the Opinion that Perry could just keep calling Special Session after Special Session until it was passed, but what would keep Strauss, the Rino Speaker of the House from making sure it died a third time. I mean it was DOA in the regular session, and the special session, right? did Some people think the third time would be the Charm?
This isn’t just a Perry issue but an issue for every supposedly conservative official with a position of power and a bully pulpit gone unused.
Has anyone noticed that every time one of our guys stands up (like Newt did tonight, Palin in her Facebook posts or whoever) the crowd goes wild and we practically explode with excitement? It’s because it happens so rarely and that the most obvious statements of fact have become so few and far between.
Can you imagine if Perry, or another Repub Gov/Senator/Congressman just decided to follow the platform and stand on principle like the following...I’ll use Perry for the sake of discussion and am not ‘targeting’ him.
An ‘emergency’ press conference is called and invites sent to all major outlets.
“Ladies and gentlemen. Since the Democrat Party stabbed President Ronald Reagan in the back in the mid-80s amnesty deal, hordes of illegals have poured across the border, overwhelming our education, medical and employment system.
(Perry then expounds on the literally tens of billions of dollars every year, hospitals forced to close, class sizes and education numbers that have resulted)
Furthermore, every time the issue is breached, the Democrat party, led by President Obama, trots out unfounded charges of racism, disgustingly smearing American citizens to further their political ends and expand their illegal power base.
Most recently, ‘Sanctuary Cities” policies, where the laws of our state and country are ignored as a matter of official policy by the Democrat Party and it’s members, have resulted in an increase in crime and a flocking of illegal aliens...not “undocumented citizens, ILLEGAL ALIENS - For they are not ‘citizens’ and they are indeed documented in their own countries... to these cities.
That places YOU, the taxpayer at an increased danger for assault, theft, an assortment of other crimes...and you get to pay for their illegal presence, government benefits and lifestyle with your tax dollars.
As of today I have worked with Congressman XXXXX to craft the “End the Madness” bill which will strip all state(or fed) funding from cities refusing to follow the law. This bill will get signed immediately as it is passed.
However until it is passed, not one bill will see my signature. And that included governmental paychecks.
I believe the people of XXXX stand behind me and will immediately pressure their representatives to bring me this bill ready for enactment.
Thank you and good night.
THAT is the kind of thing that makes presidents out of ‘leaders. Perry and others have a bully pulpit sitting unused. Perhaps it’s time they dust it off and watch us voters roar in approval. With the exception of the paycheck thing (and perhaps he has that power there) ANY political leader in a similar position could do and at minimum call for something like the above...then push publicly to make it happen.
Apply that kind of determination to all issues and win big.
“Perry did not call a 2nd Special Session because of the cost of calling yet another Special Session of the TX legislature. I was thinking the tab for the first one was something like 1.23 million or some amount, but this is just from memory, so that amount may be off.
I realize some Tea Partiers were of the Opinion that Perry could just keep calling Special Session after Special Session until it was passed, but what would keep Strauss, the Rino Speaker of the House from making sure it died a third time. I mean it was DOA in the regular session, and the special session, right? did Some people think the third time would be the Charm?”
The thing was that Perry did call three special sessions in a row, in 2007 (I think), when he really wanted to pass a business tax, but kept getting bucked by the legislature. Eventually they yielded and got him his tax. Perry knew what a pain in the next the special sessions are for the legislators (and very costly), so he simply kept calling them until they buckled.
In this case, the Sanctuary City bill was not the reason for the special session - it was something to do with school financing. The legislature had (conveniently) forgot to get to it int he regular session. So the special session spent the entire time on the school financing thing, and at the very end...as in last day or so, they couldn’t round up enough people (or something like that) to get it passed without a supermajority (something extraordinary, by legislature rules...if you want to do something very quickly), so it (conveniently) died again.
A second special session, on this topic would have made it impossible for the Republicans (who have HUGE majorities in both houses) to sweep it under the rug again. But it didn’t happen. As to the cost - we’re losing cops in Houston and Dallas because of it. Just their funerals would probably take care of the cost.