{"id":6234,"date":"2014-08-06T05:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/06\/gov-perry-overreaching\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T05:05:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:05:40","slug":"gov-perry-overreaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6234","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Perry overreaching?"},"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>Texas lawmakers think Gov. Rick Perry might be overreaching his own self with regard to the planned deployment of National Guard forces to protect Texans against the influx of &#8230; children.<\/p>\n<p>Seems that the governor is using his executive authority to spend $75 million in public money for this deployment, which some lawmakers think is an overreach.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2014\/08\/some-lawmakers-question-perrys-border-funding-move\/<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know enough about the details of what kind of power the governor has in these matters, but it does intrigue me that this governor, who&#8217;s been so critical of federal overreach by the White House might be getting into a bit of a jam at home over the very same issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Legislative Budget Board has authority to move money around the budget in between legislative sessions. Perry, however, bypassed formal board action to free $38 million to pay for the Guard in the early stages of its deployment and to help fund a DPS border surge,&#8221; the San Antonio Express-News reported in its blog.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, says the deployment doesn&#8217;t make sense in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s right. It doesn&#8217;t. The Guard can do little to stop the flow of children fleeing Central America.<\/p>\n<p>The lame-duck governor, though, says he&#8217;s doing it for symbolic reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. It now might against state law for him to just spend the money willy-nilly.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is fairly rich, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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>Texas lawmakers think Gov. Rick Perry might be overreaching his own self with regard to the planned deployment of National Guard forces to protect Texans against the influx of &#8230; children. Seems that the governor is using his executive authority to spend $75 million in public money for this deployment, which some lawmakers think is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gov. Perry overreaching?<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[540,707,1662,3951,5246],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-border-crisis","tag-executive-authority","tag-rick-perry","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234","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=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}