{"id":130,"date":"2013-05-30T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/30\/someone-explain-this-veto-please"},"modified":"2013-05-30T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:43:00","slug":"someone-explain-this-veto-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Someone explain this veto, please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This one needs some explanation. So far, I haven\u2019t heard one that makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a bill approved by the Texas Legislature in an overwhelming bipartisan fashion. It\u2019s called the \u201cBuy American Bill.\u201d It passed the state Senate 23-7 and \u2013 are you ready for this one? \u2013 sailed through the state House by a 145-0 margin. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/Perry-Vetoes-Buy-American-Bill-209533671.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/Perry-Vetoes-Buy-American-Bill-209533671.html\">http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/Perry-Vetoes-Buy-American-Bill-209533671.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perry, though, put the veto stamp on it, contending that state law already requires government agencies to favor American-made products when making purchases and that the bill doesn\u2019t change existing law.<\/p>\n<p>Texas labor leaders called the bill \u201cpatriotic\u201d and have urged the Legislature to override the governor\u2019s veto. I have to concur with them on this one.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s what has me scratching my head. Perry\u2019s veto message said the following: \u201cWhile I support and encourage our agencies to buy goods from Texas businesses, this bill simply does not change current law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s apply that logic to, let\u2019s say, a piece of social legislation the state approved some years back. This was an amendment to the Texas Constitution that banned same-sex marriage. Voters approved the amendment. But the state already had a law on the books that said it didn\u2019t recognize the marriage between people of the same gender. The constitutional amendment did \u201cnot change current law,\u201d correct?<\/p>\n<p>Perry, though, supported that amendment on the grounds that he wanted to make extra-darn certain that the state wouldn\u2019t allow same-sex marriage to occur \u2026 ever.<\/p>\n<p>In the case involving a Buy American bill, he gets a heavily bipartisan piece of legislation and vetoes it? Go figure.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one needs some explanation. So far, I haven\u2019t heard one that makes sense. Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a bill approved by the Texas Legislature in an overwhelming bipartisan fashion. It\u2019s called the \u201cBuy American Bill.\u201d It passed the state Senate 23-7 and \u2013 are you ready for this one? \u2013 sailed through the state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone explain this veto, please<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}