Perry confirms special session rumors

Gov. Rick Perry confirmed suspicions Tuesday of a looming special Legislative session at the state Capitol.

“We are in the process now of deciding when a special session will be appropriate,” he said. “I think that we are now to the point that we can say there will be a special session.”

Perry initially said there would be no special session after the 81st legislature ended.

But the governor said Tuesday he changed his mind after looking further into what he deemed “bad advice.”

“The biggest issue floating around was some bad advice senators got, saying we could do this by executive order,” he said. “We have researched that and that was blatantly bad information.”

The governor did not elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the reversal of his original decision and could not be reached at press time.

However, he did voice his disappointment with the chubbing of the voter ID bill by House democrats, a stalling tactic that was used to kill the bill. The move had an adverse effect on other substantive legislation in the House.

“One of the tragedies that came out of this session was when all of the slowdown occurred in the House,” he said. “There were a number of really good pieces of legislation that were victims of that act.”


 

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Homer Patino

Fri Jul 10 2009 16:59

"Good pieces of legislation"? For who? Big biz?

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