POLS 2312 1st Edition Lecture 22 Outline of Last Lecture I Texas Senator and Railroad Commissioner II Ebola III Governor Powers Outline of Current Lecture I Texas Northeast Gateway A Imminent Domain II Executive Tools of Persuasion III Elected Executive A Attorney General B Comptroller C Commissioner General Land Office D Ag Commissioner Current Lecture l The Texas Northeast Gateway is a group of people who want to build a tollway through Rockwall Now property value will go down because the houses will be right next to a tollway A The Texas Northeast Gateway is using imminent domain to force people to sell their land so they can tear it down and build their tollway Jerry Jones did this to many people when he wanted to build the Cowboy s Stadium Many people only got 55 000 max when normal houses are 100 000 and up Texas now doesn t allow imminent domain even though tollways are still doing this to people ll The governor has clemency powers where they can postpone an execution for up to 30 days In 1936 the Board of Pardons and Paroles was created absorbing many of the powers once conferred on the governor The Party Chief is also a useful channel of influence lll 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 To be an elected executive you must be at least 30 years old have U S citizenship and it is a 4 year term with no term limit A The current Attorney General is Greg Abbott he will win the Governor s race B The current Comptroller is Susan Combs She is resigning because she guessed a budget that was a couple million dollars off C The Commissioner General Land Office makes sure the state gets money off of state land Jerry Patterson is the current Land Commissioner D The Ag Commissioner deals with agriculture and gas pumps Todd Staples is the current Ag Commissioner
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