POLS 2312 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I Early Voting II Ag Commissioner III Comptroller IV Running for Office Outline of Current Lecture I Ebola Measures II Governor Polls III Ann Richards IV Removal and Succession Current Lecture l Governor Rick Perry announced 2 designated Ebola clinics in Texas One is in the Dallas Fort Worth area and the other is in Galveston Newark JFK O Hare Dos Hartsville are the only places West Africans can enter the United States and they must go through extra screening ll In the beginning the polls said that Davis was only 8 points behind but now she is 15 points behind Abbott recently made a commercial where they stated that Wendy Davis is just like Obama despite her efforts to not be photographed with him lll Ann Richards was the second female governor of Texas and she was elected in 1990 She was the last democrat to be governor in Texas and she lost in 1994 to George W Bush lV The governor may be removed only by impeachment Impeachment is by the House by simple majority and the conviction is by the Senate by 2 3rds majority Pa Ferguson was the only Texas governor who was impeached and removed from office If the governor is no longer able to These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute serve the Lt Governor becomes governor and next in line after him is the president protempore of Senate the person serving the longest in Senate The Governor s only power is the veto he lacks the pocket veto power
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