Next week I will broadcast Pratt on Texas from Austin as the 84th regular session of the Texas legislature convenes (sponsored by the McClesky Law Firm).
The first business for members of the House of Representatives is the election of a Speaker of the House. As it looks now the iscariotic to the conservative cause Joe “Boehner” Straus of San Antonio is quite likely to be re-elected to the post. Behind the scenes the Straus crew has worked to wreck even such straight-forward Republican reforms as putting in-place a much stronger and clearer spending cap for the state – tied to inflation and population growth.
Straus refused to sign the Texas Budget Compact last session; ridiculed the TSA anti-groping bill; went to bat to give the lottery commission a life-saving re-vote after members voted it out of existence, and; has maneuvered to ensure that such bills as campus carry don’t pass while pushing bills which restrict the freedom of conservatives to report upon and criticize elected officials.
It’s hard to understand how so many conservatives have been sucked into his orbit when, as a self-professed moderate and abortion supporter, Joe “Boehner” Straus owes his initial election to the Democrat caucus and has promoted mostly vocal enemies of conservatives to key positions. He’s praised by such radical leftists as San Antonio’s Democrat rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (real name: Ferdinand Frank Fischer, III)
Straus is hostile to many of the very mainstream principles of the Texas Republican Party platform. So, why do conservatives keep supporting his election to the most powerful legislative post?
Straus opposes conservatism but attracts conservatives
Robert Pratt
Next week I will broadcast Pratt on Texas from Austin as the 84th regular session of the Texas legislature convenes (sponsored by the McClesky Law Firm).
The first business for members of the House of Representatives is the election of a Speaker of the House. As it looks now the iscariotic to the conservative cause Joe “Boehner” Straus of San Antonio is quite likely to be re-elected to the post. Behind the scenes the Straus crew has worked to wreck even such straight-forward Republican reforms as putting in-place a much stronger and clearer spending cap for the state – tied to inflation and population growth.
Straus refused to sign the Texas Budget Compact last session; ridiculed the TSA anti-groping bill; went to bat to give the lottery commission a life-saving re-vote after members voted it out of existence, and; has maneuvered to ensure that such bills as campus carry don’t pass while pushing bills which restrict the freedom of conservatives to report upon and criticize elected officials.
It’s hard to understand how so many conservatives have been sucked into his orbit when, as a self-professed moderate and abortion supporter, Joe “Boehner” Straus owes his initial election to the Democrat caucus and has promoted mostly vocal enemies of conservatives to key positions. He’s praised by such radical leftists as San Antonio’s Democrat rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (real name: Ferdinand Frank Fischer, III)
Straus is hostile to many of the very mainstream principles of the Texas Republican Party platform. So, why do conservatives keep supporting his election to the most powerful legislative post?