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5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Lol from Congress back to the state legislature? GOP knows they have lost the House majority.

And/or they know next year will be a Republican shitshow and they don’t want to be tainted by it.  People like Gaetz, MTG, Trump, Tubberville, etc. are going to be actively trying to primary republicans they don’t like as well.

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I vaguely remember some rumblings about Talarico. I think he’s going to be a huge presence in years to come. Loved this exchange he had, shows he does his homework, didn’t seem like he was talking at,

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And this is the best we’ll get out of the brainwashed republicans. Just get them to not vote. They’ll never vote for a Democrat because, well, they don’t even really know why, but they won’t. Just do

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And/or they know next year will be a Republican shitshow and they don’t want to be tainted by it.  People like Gaetz, MTG, Trump, Tubberville, etc. are going to be actively trying to primary republicans they don’t like as well.

Texas GOP is doing the same thing. 

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On 11/7/2023 at 5:08 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Did you miss the bits about Republican politicians publicly calling Phelan a drunk?

There's a war going on between suburban MAGA and a few West Texas BMDs who are making Paxton/Patrick/Abbott/etc. jump and dance to the best of their ability vs the House and the rural Republicans.

There aren't enough aggy in the suburbs to filibuster away all the rural seats in the house.  Such a shame.

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55 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Yet Abbott will call at least five more special sessions.

He won't - otherwise he'll be preventing them from campaigning, plus he risks them continuing to tell him to fuck off, which makes him look impotent.

The rural Republican legislators are not going home to Bumfuck, Texas, and explain why they gave a bunch of taxpayer money to private suburban/urban schools.

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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Vouchers have to be dead for this year. Abbott will need to run pro-voucher candidates and get his west Texas billionaire to fund them. Maybe vouchers will pass in '25.

A good friend of mine founded Pastors for Texas Children, a group of mostly mainstream Protestant ministers who lobby for public education in the state.  He's told me about some really contentious phone calls with pro-voucher senators and representatives.

One kept asking Charlie to "tell his people to stop nagging me about it." 
Charlie:   "Not until you stop your support for turning our kids into commodities with this voucher foolishness."

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Bullshit should have never been tied in with school funding. Holding school funding hostage over a handout to wealthy parents is some garbage politics. 

Now interested to see what happens with the rest of HB1

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1 minute ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Bullshit should have never been tied in with school funding. Holding school funding hostage over a handout to wealthy parents is some garbage politics. 

Now interested to see what happens with the rest of HB1

I'm interested to see if Abbott is going to continue to roll up this hill.  

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This was a huge victory for Abbott as his entire goal was to force the anti-voucher wing of the Republican Party to finally out themselves. Don't be surprised if we see big money from his PACs try to challenge these guys.....and don't be surprised if Democrats try to flip those districts and use the in-fighting to their advantage.

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3 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

This was a huge victory for Abbott as his entire goal was to force the anti-voucher wing of the Republican Party to finally out themselves. Don't be surprised if we see big money from his PACs try to challenge these guys..

If he has an actual machine, he already knew who they were plus, the West Texas BMDs are focused on the House members who wanted Paxton impeached, which probably overlaps with the anti-voucher crowd.

Edit: There’s going to be a big civil war over the next few months.  Abbott may even try and keep doing special sessions just to hurt their campaigning opportunities, complete with threats to arrest them if they aren’t in Austin.

edit: they wouldn’t be opposing. Abbott if they didn’t think their constituents backed them, and Abbott forgets that politics are ultimately local.

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15 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

If he has an actual machine, he already knew who they were plus, the West Texas BMDs are focused on the House members who wanted Paxton impeached, which probably overlaps with the anti-voucher crowd.

Edit: There’s going to be a big civil war over the next few months.  Abbott may even try and keep doing special sessions just to hurt their campaigning opportunities, complete with threats to arrest them if they aren’t in Austin.

edit: they wouldn’t be opposing. Abbott if they didn’t think their constituents backed them, and Abbott forgets that politics are ultimately local.

It's gonna be a hoot when we get hit with another weather event and ERCOT fails but the lege is going into it's 15th special session seeking to give taxpayer funds to private christian schools

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On 11/17/2023 at 5:06 PM, BearSchlong said:


I wish he'd run.

I'm hoping to have a cup of coffee with his uncle in the morning. We don't usually talk politics but I'm going to make an exception.

I'm still waiting for Straus to run for statewide office.  Funny how these speakers keep popping up like heads of a hydra, refusing to do Greg and Danny's bidding.

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29 minutes ago, WBT said:

Funny how these speakers keep popping up like heads of a hydra, refusing to do Greg and Danny's bidding.

Almost as if they worry more about what their constituents in a relatively small part of Texas than say a couple of new-money West Texas oil billionaires.

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Wonder if Greg has the guts to call another session.  The more he does this, the less it flies under the radar, and the more chances that people who don't pay attention will wonder why he's wanting to give money to suburban and urban parents who want their kids in private schools.  It's worth noting to your MAGA relatives that this would provide money to any private Islamic schools in Texas.

 

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The photo of Dan Patrick talking about how this is really enabling parents to get their kids into better public schools across the county, not about denominational Christian schools' cash windfall...during a special session so worthless and late, that it's festooned under Christmas garland is once again proof, we are living in his Lane Bryant simulation.  

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Holland: “This has been one of the greatest honors to serve in this position. And we’ve accomplished a great many things, and still have so much more to do. What this district deserves is someone who’s been in this for a while, with the experience.”

Pierson: “Though I appreciate Mr Holland’s service, sometimes it requires chambers we cannot keep electing the same people over and over again and expect different results.”

London: “I’m the only one who went down to Austin to push for our GOP legislative priorities. This change is up to you.”

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Out in Boerne/Kendall County, former rep Kyle Biedermann, who is now trying to primary Ellen Troxclair, is recorded as defending Bryan Slaton... who got a 19-year-old intern drunk and had sex with her. Slaton was expelled this past session.

https://twitter.com/bradj_TX/status/1755646412962873493

 

He also got a letter from Abbott saying to stop using the Guv on campaign flyers. Yes, he was using a campaign photo of him with Abbott on top of fucking barbed wire as a positive ad...

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https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/texas-gop-executives-vote-to-censure-house-speaker-dade-phelan-ban-antisemites-from-party/
 

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The Republican Party of Texas’ executive committee voted Saturday to censure House Speaker Dade Phelan and passed a resolution stating that the party will not associate with antisemites — a reversal from November, when a similar measure was narrowly and controversially defeated following outcry over a major donor group’s ties to white supremacists.

The antisemitism resolution, which passed unanimously with two abstentions, came five months after The Texas Tribune reported that Jonathan Stickland, then the leader of Defend Texas Liberty, had hosted infamous white supremacist and Adolf Hitler admirer Nick Fuentes for nearly seven hours in early October.

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Subsequent reporting by the Tribune uncovered other, close ties between avowed antisemites and Defend Texas Liberty, a major political action committee that two West Texas oil tycoons have used to fund far-right groups and lawmakers in the state. Defend Texas Liberty is also one of the Texas GOP’s biggest donors.

In response to the Fuentes meeting, Phelan and 60 other House Republicans called on party members to redirect any funds from Defend Texas Liberty to pro-Israel charities — demands that were initially rebuffed by some Republicans, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who later announced that he was reinvesting the $3 million he received from Defend Texas Liberty into Israeli bonds.

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Nearly half of the Texas GOP’s executive committee also demanded that the party cut all ties with Stickland, Defend Texas Liberty and its auxiliary organizations until Stickland was removed and a full explanation for the Fuentes meeting was provided. Stickland was quietly removed as the group’s president in October, though the group has yet to provide more details on its links to Fuentes or Fuentes associates — including the leader of Texans For Strong Borders, an anti-immigration group that continues to push lawmakers to adopt hardline border policies.

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The tensions came to a head in November, when the Texas GOP’s executive committee narrowly defeated a resolution that would have banned the party from associating with antisemites, Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis — language that some members of the executive committee argued was too vague, and could complicate the party’s relationship with donors or candidates

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The November measure was also opposed by Texas GOP Chair Matt Rinaldi, a longtime ally of Defend Texas Liberty who was seen outside of the one-story, rural Tarrant County office where Fuentes was being hosted, but denied meeting with him. Last month, the Tribune also reported that, at the same time that he was attacking critics of Defend Texas Liberty over the Fuentes meeting, Rinaldi was working as an attorney for Farris Wilks, one the two West Texas oil billionaires who fund Defend Texas Liberty.

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After the measure was defeated in November, Patrick also put out a lengthy statement in which he condemned the vote and said he expected it to be revisited by the Texas GOP’s executive committee at its next meeting.

The executive committee did as much on Saturday, passing a resolution that stated that the party “opposes anti-Semitism and will always oppose and not associate with individuals or groups which espouse anti-Semitism or support for attacks on Israel.”

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The resolution’s language is significantly watered down compared to proposals from late last year, which specifically named Stickland and Defend Texas Liberty or sought to ban those who espouse — as well as those who “tolerate” — antisemitism, neo-Nazi beliefs or Holocaust denial. Since then, Defend Texas Liberty’s funders have spun off a new political action committee, Texans United For a Conservative Majority, that has been active in this year’s primaries.

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Separately, the executive committee also voted 55-4 to censure Phelan over, among other things, his role in the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, his appointment of Democrats to chair House committees and for allegedly allowing a bill on border security to die in May. Phelan was not at the committee meeting.

Phelan’s spokesperson, Cait Wittman, slammed the censure on Saturday, as well as the executive committee’s previous failure to ban antisemites from the party as well as its response to last year’s scandal involving Bryan Slaton, a Republican state representative who was expelled from the Texas House in May after getting a 19-year-old aide drunk and having sex with her.

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“This is the same organization that rolled out the red carpet for a group of Neo-Nazis, refused to disassociate from anti-Semitic groups and balked at formally condemning a known sexual predator before he was ousted from the Texas House,” Wittman wrote on X. “The SREC has lost its moral authority and is no longer representative of the views of the Party as a whole.”

Nice little civil war going on.

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