The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: The backroom work to intimidate, and even ruin, two Lubbock County commissioners – all for working to stop ballooning county spending and a big tax increase – is underway from several fronts. The latest item that is in public is beyond petty – it is juvenile and petulant political retribution from Big Budgets Bowtie Parrish.
We visit with one of the targets, Lubbock County Precinct 4 Commissioner Jordan Rackler.
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Attorney General Paxton sues Travis County for the same reason he sued Bexar County earlier in the week: The hiring of a partisan “progressive” outfit to run a local voter registration scheme.
Oil and gas rig count unchanged this week.
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Kuddos to the conservatives that stand up in Lubbock County!!!