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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (43515)	3/11/2001 9:17:58 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Texas had no foreign affairs and no national policy decisions. Neither did Clinton in Arkansas prior to '92, and he wound up being your hero.

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (43515)	3/12/2001 11:53:45 AM
From: mitch-c	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

...Texas had no foreign affairs and no national policy decisions. Living here, I beg to differ. Texas has phenomenal foreign affairs concerns. We share a 2000-mile border with Mexico, and anyone who believes that Texas is oblivious to other countries is naive. Last week, for example, the Texas Governor (Rick Perry) hosted a conference with nine Mexican state governors to discuss border issues - truck safety, immigration, NAFTA, etc. I'll bet most Americans can't name a single Mexican state without looking them up ... but they're pretty key in our attention here. Assuming President Fox can stabilize some of the chronic problems in Mexico, their economy - and ours - will be greatly boosted by cooperation at that level. Further note that President Bush's first state visit went to Mexico - a country with which he became intimately familiar during six years as a border-state governor. - Mitch