The Audacity Of Perry’s Window Sill Conference

The DMN’s Capitol Letters Blog had this interesting tidbit about Rick Perry’s dawdling on the House floor yesterday:

Gov. Rick Perry popped into the House this afternoon. The impromptu visit lasted about 15 minutes. The guv spent most of his “floor time” sitting in a window sill with Rep. David Swinford, R-Dumas. Both wore cowboy boots.

Mr. Perry said later that he and Mr. Swinford talked about border security. Mr. Swinford has filed a bill granting the governor’s wish for $100 million that he could distribute to border law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Swinford said bills and budget items were secondary to some down-home visiting by a couple of West Texas guys.

“We talked about how there’s been rain in places,” he said. “Crops are looking good. The bull’s in the pasture. And some of the fields are greening up. Important stuff that West Texans talk about.”

Those things may be of some importance to West Texans, but if Governor Deep Breath went on the House floor and the most substantive thing he talked about was whether or not someone’s bull was in the pasture then people should be angry.

He didn’t bother to use even two or three of his 15 minutes of his Window Sill Conference to, say, talk about the scandal at the Texas Youth Commission? Or, perhaps, to ask about some pending legislation?

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