Hmmm.
So the police department figures out it can do a lot more effective work if it cuts department x and they have nowhere else to put the money, so they voluntarily decide to cut their own budget, and this gets ratified by the city, this means that the city is no longer allowed to change their tax structure? Hmm, I can't imagine what could go wrong with that proposal.
Oh it just occurred to me another real possibility, especially for smaller poor towns. Those that have a police force of 1-5, but can't really afford it, and want to allow the county to do the policing, now will have to choose between either trying to figure out how pay for that police force at the current levels forever or else they will lose their ability to make anything up in tax revenue in the future. They clearly didn't think this through.
Make sure you are giving money to those democratic house candidates.
Here are all the races that finished within 10% last time around. Flip some of those the R's won last time, and hold the ones the Dems won lsat time and we have a Dem house in Texas. Money, especially to those that the dems lost by 5% or less, will help make sure that happens and that this proposal goes nowhere.
Chamber
Office
Democratic
Republican
Dem Lost by <10%
House
District 26
L. Sarah DeMerchant
Jacey Jetton
4.97% (3,255 Votes)
House
District 28
Elizabeth Markowitz
Gary Gates (i)
8.41% (6,879 Votes)
House
District 45
Erin Zwiener (i)
Carrie Isaac
Dems won by 3.2%
House
District 47
Vikki Goodwin (i)
Justin Berry
Dems won by 4.8%
House
District 52
James Talarico (i)
Lucio Valdez
Dems won by 3.5%
House
District 54
Likeithia Williams
Brad Buckley (i)
7.69% (3702 Votes)
House
District 64
Angela Brewer
Lynn Stucky (i)
8.37% (5730 Votes)
House
District 65
Michelle Beckley (i)
Kronda Thimesch
Dems won by 2.3%
House
District 66
Sharon Hirsch
Matt Shaheen (i)
.55% (378 Votes)
House
District 67
Primary runoff results pending
Jeff Leach (i)
2.27% (1650 Votes)
House
District 92
Jeff Whitfield
Jeff Cason
2.43% (1446 Votes)
House
District 93
Lydia Bean
Matt Krause (i)
7.79% (4450 Votes)
House
District 94
Alisa Simmons
Tony Tinderholt (i)
8.63% (5,324 Votes)
House
District 96
Joe Drago
David Cook
3.68% (2,361 Votes)
House
District 97
Elizabeth Beck
Craig Goldman (i)
8.4% (5534 Votes)
House
District 102
Ana-Maria Ramos (i)
Linda Koop
Dems won by 5.8%
House
District 105
Terry Meza (i)
Gerson Hernandez
Dems won by 9.5%
House
District 108
Joanna Cattanach
Morgan Meyer (i)
.57% (220 Votes)
House
District 112
Brandy Chambers
Angie Chen Button (i)
2.15% (1,140 Votes)
House
District 113
Rhetta Andrews Bowers (i)
Will Douglas
Dems won by 7%
House
District 121
Celina Montoya
Steve Allison (i)
8.54% (6,199 Votes)
House
District 126
Natali Hurtado
E. Sam Harless (i)
9.69% (5,366 Votes)
House
District 132
Gina Calanni (i)
Mike Schofield
Dems won by .2%
House
District 134
Ann Johnson
Sarah Davis (i)
6.41% (5,678 Votes)
House
District 135
Jon Rosenthal (i)
Justin Ray
Dems won by 3.2%
House
District 136
John Bucy III (i)
Mike Guevara
Dems won by 9.6%
House
District 138
Akilah Bacy
Lacey Hull
.15% (47 Votes)