Your office resorted to scare tactics and innuendo and generic conspiracy worries of your uninformed base in your response to the military's Operation Jade Helm 15. It was ridiculous enough to embarrass even some republicans so, thanks to our news organizations (especially FOX) and our short collective memories, the story is dying a quiet death. No one was proven a liar or an alarmist or a hypocrite.
The next time that the DoD runs a training exercise in your state that makes you worry that the bad ol' Yankee bluecoats have been mobilized by the Feds to take your guns or your threaten your state sovereignty or challenge your machismo, please save words and a lot of misunderstandings/backpedaling/denying and just do the obvious:
The Governor of Texas, as the 3rd largest state recipient of Department of Defense funding (Texas figures available on the net) and with 10 Army, 7 Air Force and 4 Navy bases located within your borders, and millions of dollars in active military and civilian payroll, you should call the Secretary of Defense and tell him to start shutting down all military facilities in your state.
If you're that afraid of the Feds, kick the bums out.
Or was Operation Jade Helm 15 just a publicity stunt on your part? A stunt so stupid that it even other Republicans backed away from you?
Texas Governors and Representatives have gone on the public record as not trusting the elected federal government of the United States. You have threatened to stop immigration - you won't because who would work in your meat and poultry industries? You have threated to secede - you won't for obvious reasons including federal funding. You are suddenly afraid of routine military war games which are necessary for training. Yet you are always lobbying for more military bases and more DoD funding. You have threated to destroy the federal agencies: Education, OSHA, Consumer Protection, the EPA, the IRS, and so on and so on. Up here in NY we call this behavior "writing a check with your mouth that your ass can't cover."
Next time do it like informed adults instead of threatening to do it like spoiled kids on the playground.