Texas: Drills stoke suspicion Jn 8:36
Don't Mess With Texas
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The U.S. Army Special Operations Command has categorically denied there is anything nefarious about the drills, saying they are training exercises, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc said there was no truth to the rumors of a tunnel network being built under its stores.
Jade Helm will be held on public and private land, with the permission of landowners. The military said Army Special Operations Forces will train in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, with the terrain intended to replicate areas where soldiers find themselves operating overseas.
Fears from constituents, however, have drawn a response from politicians eager not to alienate right-wing voters. In a move a Dallas Morning News editorial called "cringe-worthy," Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said he would dispatch the Texas State Guard to monitor Jade Helm to make sure it does not impinge on Texans' freedom.
Placating such views could pay off for Republicans, who dominate state politics and often fight their most difficult battles in primaries where campaigns typically take a hard turn to the right.
A poll from the Texas Tribune and the University of Texas showed that 39 percent of registered voters and 85 percent of the right-wing Tea Party group supported Abbott's move on Jade Helm.
"Republican leaders don’t want to do something that antagonizes these groups to such as extent that they rally around an opponent in the Republican primary," said Mark Jones, who chairs the Department of Political Sciences at Rice University in Houston.
There aren't as many frooty rightwingers here as you might suspect from the news. We just keep them around because they're fun to watch. Lots of rightwingers, but not many crazy ones. The Guv is in with them, because he's afraid of them.
Jade Helm will be held on public and private land, with the permission of landowners. The military said Army Special Operations Forces will train in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, with the terrain intended to replicate areas where soldiers find themselves operating overseas.
Fears from constituents, however, have drawn a response from politicians eager not to alienate right-wing voters. In a move a Dallas Morning News editorial called "cringe-worthy," Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said he would dispatch the Texas State Guard to monitor Jade Helm to make sure it does not impinge on Texans' freedom.
Placating such views could pay off for Republicans, who dominate state politics and often fight their most difficult battles in primaries where campaigns typically take a hard turn to the right.
A poll from the Texas Tribune and the University of Texas showed that 39 percent of registered voters and 85 percent of the right-wing Tea Party group supported Abbott's move on Jade Helm.
"Republican leaders don’t want to do something that antagonizes these groups to such as extent that they rally around an opponent in the Republican primary," said Mark Jones, who chairs the Department of Political Sciences at Rice University in Houston.
There aren't as many frooty rightwingers here as you might suspect from the news. We just keep them around because they're fun to watch. Lots of rightwingers, but not many crazy ones. The Guv is in with them, because he's afraid of them.
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