Re: CHAT: Gale Norton (was Californian secessionists)

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
> > One of the reasons that Texas's governor is one of the weakest in
> the
> > nation (a fact Bush conveniently forgot to mention on the campaign
> trail)
>
> Southern governors are weak in general (the offices, I mean, not the
> persons necessarily).
That's true, but Texas takes it to extremes.  I believe I heard
once that Texas' governor is considered the second weakest in
the nation, after North Carolina's, where the Governor's veto
can be overridden by a simple majority of the Legislature.

Don't know how current/correct that is.

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Thomas Wier <trwier@...>

"If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept,
but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights,
then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going
to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander
to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III

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