A governor is the state’s top executive officeholder and serves a four-year term in the state of Texas, but there is no limit on how many terms a governor wants to serve. The duties of the governor vary throughout the legislative, budgetary, appointive, judicial, and military powers. However, the governor is limited in its powers because of the plural executive structure.
First and foremost, the governor’s legislative powers consist of calling special sessions, vetoing bills or passing them, and has a line-item veto power over the state budget. According to Gibson et al., “Texas has one of the strongest veto powers of any other governor” (194). On the other hand, the Texas governor has a weak power over the budgetary of the state compared to other states. The governor and the Legislative Budget Board can make recommendations, but the governor is limited in developing a legislative program. The governor’s
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Rick Perry has had experience as a state representative, state agriculture commissioner, and was the lieutenant governor during George W. Bush’s time as governor. Many did not approve of Rick Perry because he “once questioned Bush’s fiscal-conservative credentials”, according to Mark Halperin in “Time”. However, he was one of the longest serving governor in the state of Texas. Rick Perry had a goal to improve the way of transportation because of the traffic that occurs in urban and suburban areas. He also wanted to redistrict so that there would be more Republicans, cut local school property taxes, and increase the state cigarette tax for his first term. Later, he tried to run for presidency but lost the race. Perry was against to “expand the Medicaid coverage to an estimated one million low-income Texans” (Gibson et al. 210). He had rejected this option under the Affordable Care Act. He was very pro conservative and Republican views and kept cutting funding for