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Violence explodes as Perry skips Border Governors' Conference

Governor Rick Perry this week skipped out on the binational Border Governors' Conference in Monterrey, sending Deputy Chief of Staff Kathy Walt in his stead. But surely there can't be many other priorities more important than Texas' border for the Governor to be focused on? Rather than go to Monterrey to discuss security and economic issues critical to the state, on Wednesday the Governor was in Lubbock to criticize President Obama's health care plan.As if to emphasize those missplaced priorities, on the opening day of the conference eighteen people were murdered at a drug rehab center in Ciudad Juarez across the river from El Paso, and 22 others were murdered the same day by cartels in the state of Chihuahua alone. This was the third recent attack on an Juarez rehab center, which authorities say "have frequently been used by drug cartel members as hide-outs from police or rival gang members...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).