The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: A not so amazing dirt in your face move from Texas House legislators as they try to re-establish a bad crony tax giveaway program and in so doing, make it worse than the version that we got rid of last session. It seems Democrats want to give your money away to masses of voters and some Republicans are just as eager to give away our money to big companies. Chairman Hunter may not like people saying “Chapter 313” about his HB5 but frankly it is Chapter 313 all over again but worse as is detailed in a fine bit of reporting.
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On handling the conviction of Army Sgt. Daniel Perry in Austin, liberals, which includes the state press and editorial boards, are trying to lead the public to believe that Governor Abbott is somehow acting outside the system and attacking our judiciary on the matter. Of course Abbott’s action requesting the Board of Pardons and Paroles to look into the matter immediately is a bit “unusual” but it is so because it is unusual to have a District Attorney indict, prosecute, and convict a person for murder about whom the police who investigated the case did not even arrest him because the evidence showed it was justifiable self-defense. The lead detective in the case testified at trial for the defendant, not the D.A. That is what is unusual.
It’s utter hyperbole to claim, as did the editorial board at the Austin paper, that “Abbott’s plan to pardon convicted killer is a threat to the judiciary” [their original headline.] We’ve always had a pardon process, at both the federal and state level, and usually it is liberals like those at the Statesman press for pardons.
And, other news of Texas.
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