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Remember, the Governor of Texas was at the time attempting to win the Republican party's nomination for President.
by fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
Remember, the Governor of Texas was at the time attempting to win the Republican party's nomination for President.
- smacktoward 11y agoIn his own presidential campaign in 1992, then-Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton participated in a similarly odious bit of political theater around an execution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ray_Rector I'm a Democrat, but on this issue there's more than enough crass opportunism on both sides of the aisle to go around.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoIn Clinton's case it was deathly fear of giving the red team any excuse to call him "soft on crime", but it amounts to the same thing.