To: JRandomFreeper
“Lt. Governor is the most powerful elected office in the State of Texas. We need someone besides Dewhurst there.”
That’s a very odd system. But I live in the oldest commonwealth in the country.
17 posted on
05/19/2014 6:30:24 PM PDT by
cotton1706
(ThisRepublic.net)
To: cotton1706
Texas politics is weird. The Governor can't even pardon a criminal without permission of the parole board.
Governor can't do much but repel invasions, actually...
/johnny
To: cotton1706
Thats a very odd system. But I live in the oldest commonwealth in the country.
It was different before Reconstruction. Some jokers from up north thought it would be a good idea if the Texas governorship was a relatively weak office. In short, we didn't come up with that idea.
20 posted on
05/19/2014 6:37:41 PM PDT by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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