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Rick Perry vs. Sheila Jackson-Lee on expanding the sex-offender registry?

The Houston Chronicle has some breaking news that Grits readers learned two months ago: "The state - which has the second-largest sex offender database in the nation, with 63,000 men and women registered - is balking at the [new federal] requirements, citing unacceptably high costs of implementing the law's provisions."The story, though, framed the issue somewhat peculiarly, comparing the decision to "two highly publicized showdowns with the federal government over Texas pollution-control efforts and education funding," declaring that "this low-key standoff is yet another issue in Gov. Rick Perry's ballyhooed war on Washington." Even stranger, the story sets Perry in opposition to Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee:"What is more important and more precious than our children?" Jackson Lee asked...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).