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Texas Legislature 2021

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Dubious, Jan 12, 2021.

  1. Dubious

    Dubious Contributing Member

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    Texas Legislature convenes, Dade Phelan elected Texas House speaker
    Madlin Mekelburg
    Austin America
    https://www.statesman.com/story/new...SND&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=statesman

    We're so glad you asked. Here are the top 10 issues lawmakers will contend with once the session gets underway:

    Issue No. 10: Confederate memorials

    Issue No. 9: Public education

    Issue No. 8: mar1juana

    Issue No. 7: Policing reforms

    Issue No. 6: Healthcare reform

    Issue No. 5: Election law

    Issue No. 4: Abortion

    Issue No. 3: Austin police cuts

    Issue No. 2: Redistricting

    Issue No. 1: Coronavirus pandemic
     
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    Interesting timing on your post; just today I declined to take off the optional state holiday of Confederate Heroes Day and deferred taking the day off for some other time.

    Not so ironically, Confederate Heroes Day follows the MLK holiday...
     
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    My significant other is so glad she's no longer working for the Legislature. She was an executive of a powerful commission and once had to work with Patrick off and on for two years. Helped her decide to retire. Patrick and his Michael Jackson style nose job is a walking, talking blob of excrement. He's worse in person than he is on the videos of him babbling that people may have seen online or on the news. The news that he once again "rigs" the Senate rules doesn't surprise us in the least. Wait until Abbott, Patrick and the majority in the Lege create even more voter suppression for the elections in two years. They are truly frightened of losing their grip on power.
     
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    Cool...outside of 3-4-10, let's talk.
     
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    After a legislator listed out a series of discriminatory court rulings, the republican speaker asked that the word racist not be used..."We can talk about discriminatory impact of this legislation without talking about racism"...

     
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    Read my post from mid-January thanks to your bump, and I'd sure like to be wrong about these things sometimes. No such luck.
     

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