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DhhD

(4,695 posts) Sun Jul 27, 2014, 08:39 PM Jul 2014

Fed Will Review Perry's Guard Call-Up

https://www.texastribune.org/2014/07/23/brief/

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Story lines continue to spin out from Gov. Rick Perry's Monday announcement that he was activating up to 1,000 National Guard troops to back up existing DPS border operations. Here's a roundup of what happened on Tuesday.

More at the link.

Hope the wrong link on my previous OP did not offend anyone. I do not know what happened to my usual copy and paste method.

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Fed Will Review Perry's Guard Call-Up (Original Post) DhhD Jul 2014 OP

Even money that Perry wants the Feds to overrule the Guard call up. LakeVermilion Jul 2014 #1

Good Gothmog Jul 2014 #2

LakeVermilion

(1,037 posts)

1. Even money that Perry wants the Feds to overrule the Guard call up.

Reply to DhhD (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2014, 09:24 PM

Jul 2014

Then he gets the issue for his soapbox without the cost and the ineffectiveness of his action. Plus a Guardsman won't do something stupid to make Perry look foolish.

Gothmog

(144,945 posts)

2. Good

Reply to DhhD (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2014, 11:38 PM

Jul 2014

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