fertilizer stored there. we know that because of that evacuation in february where thank god the plant did not go off like a bomb that day. but it did go off like a bomb two months later. and when it did, for anybody nearby, it really was like the freaking end of the world. the reason that that plant full of explosives was in the middle of all those schools and the nursing home and the apartment building was all packed right around it is because there were literally no zoning laws there at all. the only rule about where you could put your house your or business of any kind is whether or not you a owned the property and b could fit it in there. no zoning rules at all in terms of what can be right next to each other. also there s no statewide fire code in texas at all. not like they have a statewide fire code and the texas one is lax and lets you get away with a lot you can t get away with other places.
for that. congressman, do you ever strategize with your republican governor rick perry or other top republicans to change the dynamic within the house? you know, i talk to rick perry a few times and met with him a few times when i was in the texas legislature but i can t say we have been best friends since then. he has been somebody who has been very much against doca, for example, and comprehensive immigration reform and i think he felt stung during the presidential primary in 2012 when he mentioned texas one of the first states to pass a version of the dream act. since then he has been fairly rit se reticent on the issue except to criticize the president. you re working 26 days the last five months of the year, that stocked me. will you explain that to me? donny, believe me, i m
critics say rick perry is poaching jobs from other states, but perry says it s all about a little friendly competition. done a pretty good job of making texas one of the most if not the most, competitive states in the nation. 30% of all the jobs created in the private sector in the last decade were in the state of texas and texas is now the number one tech nol ji experting state in the nation, bypassing california. so, there s some real data, if you will, backing up that these policies work and it s good for the people. obviously, it s good for the young man and woman who has a job today, who maybe five years ago didn t have one. minimum wage workers at best. i think this whole concept of states competing against each other and if you don t have competition, if you don t have rick perry coming into new york and challenging governor cuomo and his legislature to do things differently, then they re not going to feel compelled to put
russia. new russia. that s part of what it was called in the 19th century when it was part of the russian empire instead of its own country. and if vladimir putin has now gone back to calling it that now it seems fairly ominous about his intentions toward that part of ukraine. it s like if mexico started calling texas one of its provinces again. president putin also made clear today that his parliament has given him the right to intervene militarily, to use military force in the ukraine if he so chooses. he said all of this in a super long, four-hour sort of press conference today which included all this goofy stuff in it, including him taking sort of a stunt question from edward snowden on video, him making a crack about how no, he doesn t want to invade alaska because alaska s not worth anything and it s really cold there. it was weird. but for all the messing around, in this four-hour-long thing today in raurks all of this happened amid a very serious day in ukraine, a day that resu
by the democrats in kentucky, led by speaker greg stumbo here. and he said no, we are flat out not changing the state law for rand paul. as soon as rand paul started asking for kentucky to change this law mr. stumbo was very clear about it. he told the courier journal, we kind of take the position over here that a man who can t decide which office he wants to run for isn t fit to hold either office. and so the kentucky democrats said no. or to be more specific, they just let the clock run out on the legislative session where they would have had to pass the bill. they let the clock run out without ever acting on it. and they are palpably gleeful about shoving this in rand paul s face. look, here s mr. stumbo. still reading it. re can t decide what it says. there s only one paragraph. well, you know, two offices. one says senate. one says president. check one.