Presidents of both parties routinely threaten to veto spending bills that they believe to be a poor use of the public’s money. In a recent State of the Union Address, for example, President Obama threatened to veto any bill with earmarks, no matter how noble the purported cause. Reviewing bills, then signing or vetoing them, is the president’s job.
That’s also the job of the governor of Texas. Yet the now-famous prosecution of former Governor Rick Perry lives on, even after the state Court of Appeals at Austin recently struck down one of the two criminal charges against him. What was then-Governor Perry’s purported “crime”? Vetoing a portion of the appropriation to the Travis County District Attorney’s office. In our representative democracy, that is emphatically not a crime.
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