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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (801821)8/15/2014 9:34:10 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1576346
 
He didn't threaten to veto funding. He actually did it.

The Republicans have been trying to get rid of that unit for years. The DA that heads the unit is the DA in Travis county. Which tends to vote Democratic. Given that most Texas elected officials are Republican and have trouble keeping their hands out of the cookie jar, they investigate a lot of Republicans.

If Perry had been successful in forcing her out, he could have named the replacement, who would serve until 2016.
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