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Les BOOGIE Donating Member (236 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-04 12:08 AM
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Shrub's accomplishments as governor of Texas
1) helicopter tour of a flood disaster

2) ordered arrest of peaceful demonstrators across the street

3) soundly debunked claim of education improvements

4) ???
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-04 12:14 AM
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1.  He had many people killed...
..and made fun of one of them.
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-04 12:41 AM
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2. Rolled back air pollution standards.
n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-04 12:44 AM
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3. fiscal disaster
left state bankrupt
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-04 12:46 AM
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4. Worst state environmental record in nation and 152 prisoner executions
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JayS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-04 02:07 AM
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5. The biggest, and pretty much the only, one I can remember...
Edited on Sun May-16-04 02:15 AM by JayS
...is one that he campaigned on and one the former governor refused to let the citizens vote on and that was the concealed handgun license. Kind of ironic, is it not? The governorship fell to the Republicans, and put one in the White House, over one of the petty issues that cost our party so much.

The other two items occurred during the terms of both Bush and Perry. One was mandatory sentencing for gun crimes and harsher treatment of gangs; both go to federal court now. The other is taking minor drug possession cases to medical courts, not criminal ones. I'm not sure if Bush or Perry was aware of either item.
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