The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott goes has a veto spree over his inability to get school choice and his promised tax relief ideas passed in the regular session, and now a called session, of the Texas Legislature. It’s all legitimate political gamesmanship but Abbott has vetoed some very good bills that provide serious protections to us. Abbott’s conduct crosses into the line of political petulance and wrongly does harm to the people of Texas.
Here is a full list of vetoed bills.
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Once elected and are part of the club, you don’t matter much anymore to many legislators and office holders. State Rep. Justin Holland of Rockkwall demonstrates such in his inherently self-contradictory Twitter screed about the Republican Party of Texas executive committee voting 53 to 11 to condemn the House impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton:
“Nobody (in real TX politics) cares about the SREC or its chair. It’s a defunct organization and needs a total re-haul from the top down. Local parties are AWOL. It’s a mess. The good news is that they are all irrelevant and have no local/state respect. We can win without them.”
My how some elected officials are bothered by criticism!
By the way, SD 28’s SREC members, Lynda Hogue and Steve Evans, both of Lubbock, were among the 11 SREC members voting against the resolution.
And, other news of Texas.
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