Texas Governors Are Not As Powerful As Many People Think

We are proud to introduce the next governor of the great State of Texas, Ms. Jane “Bitzi” Johnson Miller. She is a staunch Conservative Republican whose proud Texan traditions are deep rooted here in the Lone Star State. A native Texan who grew up in West Texas, she comes from a great line of proud Texans including former Governor Joe “Big Daddy” Johnson. Ms. Miller attended Harvard and earned a Master’s in Business Administration. In this difficult and uncertain time of economic recession, she has

While finishing his second term as Texas attorney general he began his campaign for governor. He was a prime candidate and had made many

Texas is considered a very diverse and unique state in many different aspects. It is the second largest state with more than twenty-six million people residing. People all over the state live in a variety of environments, cities, suburbs, rural areas, you name it. Of course though, like in everything else, there are always both positive and negative things. However, despite the fact that Texas have very high poverty rates and it has the second highest income inequality, Texas is a very interesting state and it has a lot of things that are worth learning about. I learned some things about Texas politics that I thought were very interesting. These topics include the State Constitution and the legislature.

James Richard (Rick) Perry was the forty- seventh governor of Texas. He served from 2000-2015. Perry grew up as a farmer, so he knows what it is like to work hard for what you have. Perry also served in the United States Air force from 1972-1977. While in the air force, he flew a C-130 tactical airlift plane over Europe and the Middle- East. Perry is also a lifetime member of the NRA (National Rifle Association) and of the American Legion Post. Before being elected as Lt. Governor, Perry served two terms as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and three terms in the Texas House of Representatives.

Rick Perry was elected governor of Texas in late 2000. He was born on March 4, 1950, in the small town of Paint Creek, Texas. The reason why I chose him for my essay because he is a good man, a man of integrity. Rick Perry is a wonderful man and he has been a great Texas Governor. What has Rick Perry done for Texas? The state’s economic growing up fast during his long tenure as governor of Texas. During his tenure, he had passed several new laws that help reducing crime rates and saving millions of dollars for Texas. Texas has done better than what most of the other states trying to do. Over the past he has created many jobs for people in Texas, while the other states have all lost jobs. There are now about 2 million or more new employees in

An interesting fact about the plural executives of Texas is that, since 1846 through 2012 there have been a combined total of 311 executive officials. Texans elect six of the seven people who make up the plural executive: the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the land commissioner, the commissioner of agriculture, the comptroller, and the commissioner of the General Land Office. The governor appoints the seventh person, the secretary of state. These executive officials are referred to collectively as the state’s plural executive. The plural executive is the executive powers that are shared by multiple officials.

The state is made up of different sectors all in existence and intertwined each other. The constitution serves many functions in the operations of the government and the life of the people governed. The document houses the rules of the land and the conditions governing the way the various sectors of the economy react and act in a mutual status. The constitution is the key to the viable existence of the people of Texas providing the fundamental rules and laws for the inception and operations of legal laws (Brown et al., 2014). Likewise, the constitution outlines the underlying breakdown of the way the individual powers and limits to the powers in place exist.

Allow me to introduce to you the next Governor of the great state of Texas, Jane “Bitzi” Johnson Miller. Bitzi is a proud native Texan born in Odessa, Texas and is the granddaughter of former Governor of Texas Joe “Big Daddy” Johnson. She grew up on her family 's cattle ranch near Pecos, Texas. There she learned the value of a hard days work, that family comes first, a man is only as good as his word, and a firm handshake still goes a long way. After graduating from Pecos High School as Valedictorian Bitzi attended Texas Tech University were she graduated with honors earning her Masters of Business Administration majoring in general business and minoring in finance. After serving in executive roles for several oil

Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson a.k.a “MA” was the first woman governor of texas, she was born in Bell County, TX on June 13, 1875 she had two daughters Joseph L. and Eliza (Garrison) Wallace, Miriam A. Ferguson married James E. Ferguson in 1899 at the age 24. Her husband James E. Ferguson tried to get his name on the ballot in 1924 sadly he failed that’s when Miriam A. Ferguson ran for governor before then Miriam always took care of her family that’s why Miriam supporters made up “MA” Ferguson and her first and middle name make up “MA” so they always called her “MA” and to make people vote for her she said she promised with her husband she would have “two governors for the price of one” Miriam promised that she would extensive cuts in the in

The two candidates running for the office of Texas Governor are Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democrat State Senator Windy Davis. I will begin with the bio of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Greg Abbott was born in 1957 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. He went on to earn his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee in 1984. Also, after graduating law school in 1984, Abbott was in an accident that made him a paraplegic. He was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court by then Texas Governor George W. Bush in 1996. Also in 1996 and again in 1998, Abbott was elected to Texas’ highest civil court where he served a two year and six year term. In 2001, Abbott went into a private practice and also was a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Also in 2001, Greg Abbott resigned from the Texas Supreme Court to pursue the office of attorney general for the election year of 2002. Abbott won the election of 2002 and

This is why we have three branches of government. Made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the legislative branch in Texas is forced to resort to the constitutional amendment process in order to get things accomplished (Newell et al. 59). This is another form of limiting powers of one branch. The executive branch in Texas has little power compared to that of the United States Constitution. The Governor is elected statewide and instead of being able to appoint his cabinet, like the President would, he does not get to choose who is appointed to any other government job. On a positive note, the Governor of Texas can run for an unlimited amount of terms. Lastly, the judicial branch of Texas is almost too confusing to even discuss. If you want to be elected as a judge, you do not need to have experience with the law. Just win the popular vote and you are now a

This is an example of a governor’s willingness to work with legislators at quarters and personally lobbying their bills (Rosenthal, A., 2004). The Texas Legislature is the most powerful of the three main branches of government. However, none of the three branches is particularly strong, and the Legislature may be better described as less weak than the other branches (www.laits.utexas.edu). The legislative branch's status amongst the governing structures of both Texas and the United States gives it extensive authority. According to the Handbook of Texas Online:

During the filibuster, she wanted to block Senate Bill five which included that Texas would have more restrictive abortion regulations. She argued for certain regulations, such as fighting for abortion to be banned after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Unfortunately, she failed to prove her point to the senate. In her speech at the rally on July 1, 2013, she talks about the previous filibuster and she called it “the crux of a turning point in Texas History”. The importance of the date of the “Stand with Texas Women” speech is that it was only a few days after her filibuster at the senate. She was trying to reach out to the women who felt regretful about their abortions. She was trying to further her points from the filibuster, by talking directly to the Texas women who attended the rally.

Abortion had been officially outlawed in the state of Texas since 1854. McCorvey and her co-plaintiffs argued that this ban violated rights given to them in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The attorneys hoped that the court would find merit under at least one of those areas when deciding their ruling.

2 Running an office is not an easy job at all. And in Texas it might be more difficult looking to its size and dense population. If you were running a government of the political party than it should not only be a policy in a platform. You should dedicate lots of things in it. You need to dedicate your time, use your knowledge and talent to operate it smoothly. Most importantly you need huge amount of money to run office in Texas.