I won't pretend to have an opinion, but Kid Presentable presented an interesting question right at the end there:
Can the governor just threaten to take away any agency's funding for whatever reason he feels like if the head of that agency doesn't comply with his resignation demand?
With the implication being: Regardless of the legality (which is best left to the courts to decide, I think that's apparent), would you be okay with this turn of events?
Spool I wouldn't want to put words in your mouth, but I imagine your response to this would be 'Under these circumstances (i.e. the abhorrent behavior of the agency head in question), absolutely. It's an extraordinary situation that requires extraordinary action.'
In that case, I'm super comfortable with it. In general, the governor has a line-item veto, so you don't need anything after the "if" in KP's question. He can veto things for whatever reason.
Sure, but the threat he made is the discussion then. And I certainly don't feel comfortable weighing in on that.
I won't pretend to have an opinion, but Kid Presentable presented an interesting question right at the end there:
Can the governor just threaten to take away any agency's funding for whatever reason he feels like if the head of that agency doesn't comply with his resignation demand?
With the implication being: Regardless of the legality (which is best left to the courts to decide, I think that's apparent), would you be okay with this turn of events?
It's not 'taking away funding', it's 'applying economic sanctions as a domestic policy tool'.
Very true. Let's take it back to that thread, though - my most recent post touches on this, I think - it's my opinion that the governor should have a tool to deal with this sort of issue without having to resort to economic sanctions, if only because he is forced to apply it so imprecisely.
He does have that tool.
It's called the court of public opinion.
Perry's got a big mouth and people like him. If he can't use that to get what he wants he has no business running for anything higher than dog catcher.
My city's mayor is case-in-point that the court of public opinion is a fickle and enigmatic institution.
I'd like to see something more defined for situations like this.
I'm not comfortable for the only recourse for removing someone like this from office when they refuse your request that they resign is "request harder!".
Oh that while system is fucked up for sure.
What are ya gonna do? It's Texas
As my mayor continues to serve, it's apparently the only power we have at the municipal level!
The only thing we haven't tried is a strongly-worded condemnation from our provincial premier, who said she was 'uncomfortable' with the idea of butting into Toronto's politics.
#TooPoliteToDoHerJob
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Funnily enough in Florida the governor could remove her from office himself and appoint whoever he wanted to replace her.
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Funnily enough in Florida the governor could remove her from office himself and appoint whoever he wanted to replace her.
See now that's the kind of sexy power I can get behind.
But then what do you expect? I come from a mixed background: Chiefs on one side and Monarchs on the other.
All this 'voice of the people' stuff just makes me nervous.
I like when one, solitary individual who SURELY has no political leanings gets to make all the decisions. :bz
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I just want the Queen to come here, pat me on the head and tell me that everything will be ok and that she would be more than happy to read me a bedtime story.
I just want the Queen to come here, pat me on the head and tell me that everything will be ok and that she would be more than happy to read me a bedtime story.
I just want the Queen to come here, pat me on the head and tell me that everything will be ok and that she would be more than happy to read me a bedtime story.
So far away though
Wait, are you implying that you are the Queen?
I was under the impression that you are a Princess.
Also, duh, the Queen is magic and can teleport so that she can visit all the good little monarchists on Queen Victoria Day.
It's Commonwealth Christmas!
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My modem died a noble death
fuck gendered marketing
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It doesn't track with the new trailer for their show ... where Kendra claims she flushed her wedding ring down the toilet after Hank reportedly had an affair with a transexual or two.
It doesn't track with the new trailer for their show ... where Kendra claims she flushed her wedding ring down the toilet after Hank reportedly had an affair with a transexual or two.
It doesn't track with the new trailer for their show ... where Kendra claims she flushed her wedding ring down the toilet after Hank reportedly had an affair with a transexual or two.
fuck this earth
*begins packing reluctant doggy into specially-designed doggy armor for earth-destroying mission*
I don't know where that dog came from.
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As my mayor continues to serve, it's apparently the only power we have at the municipal level!
The only thing we haven't tried is a strongly-worded condemnation from our provincial premier, who said she was 'uncomfortable' with the idea of butting into Toronto's politics.
#TooPoliteToDoHerJob
See now that's the kind of sexy power I can get behind.
But then what do you expect? I come from a mixed background: Chiefs on one side and Monarchs on the other.
All this 'voice of the people' stuff just makes me nervous.
I like when one, solitary individual who SURELY has no political leanings gets to make all the decisions. :bz
http://www.waka.com/home/top-stories/Governor-removes-Wiggins-from-ASU-board-268645772.html
See the problem here is that his title isn't Grand Chief.
So far away though
President of the Alabama State board of trustees is nothing to scoff at.
Wait, are you implying that you are the Queen?
I was under the impression that you are a Princess.
Also, duh, the Queen is magic and can teleport so that she can visit all the good little monarchists on Queen Victoria Day.
It's Commonwealth Christmas!
I mean, I'm hard ... but not useful hard, y'know?
I want a governor general to dissolve a parliament. That really gets me going.
It deserves nothing less than a Viking funeral.
I have to perform a ceremony in which i hand it over to an uncaring cable person and receive a new one in return
Part of me wishes that I had left an hour ago
And part of me is happy that I didn't go
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Which is good, because I accidentally made a shit load of it, so I will be eating lots of it over the next few days...
you should, like
tie a flower to it or something
and don't say anything about it to the cable person, just nod solemnly
The only way I know how to make beans and rice is making it in absurdly large quantities >_>
Speaking of ... that's a thing I should do tomorrow.
*hug*
*hug*
*begins packing reluctant doggy into air-shipping container*
No bar tonight
It was rainy anyway
Probably no one fun there
Insert other good reasons that I stayed home here
"... I haaaaveee..."
"... Five of them."
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
I'm yelling NARHWAL!
You better swim
You better dance
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
Everyone posts this whenever I try to insert Narwhal into a different song
Always let me touch your balls, if the situation arises
Ladyroar would disapprove to an extreme level so I have to decline the offer of you playing with my nuts.
Narwhals have achieved ubiquitous cultural penetration.
It's all Narwhal Singularity in a couple years, I'd reckon.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
Well, you're just fortunate that the situation hasn't come up
Because if and when it does, it's
It's pretty important that you let me touch your balls
It's a narwhal thing
Alt post:
Ladyroar I'm coming after yo man, ain't no ring on him yet :P
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
They should have sent a poet
fuck this earth
*begins packing reluctant doggy into specially-designed doggy armor for earth-destroying mission*
I don't know where that dog came from.
Can I just have the armor
and the dog?
me and laika have a job to do