According to the links from the link you gave, the bill passed the house by voice approval, with only ONE person registering a no vote. The Senate vote was 30-1.
SO this legislation was an essentially unanimously passed before Perry signed it.
I read the bills, and I read the article you posted. I see why the people at the link didn’t like the bill, but I don’t see the bill as being a bad thing. But more importantly, the entire state legislature was FOR the bill, there was no controversy recorded, and the Governor signed it.
Yes if you saw my comment at the end of my post I agree the rent-to-own hucksters deserve what they got with this bill. No sympathy from me.
The big picture is that Perry did the photo-op with ACORN to appeal to ACORN’s constituency: illegal aliens living along the TEX-MEX border.