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
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...
Texas Senate modifies key rule to preserve GOP power https://amp.statesman.com/amp/6654277002?__twitter_impression=true&s=09
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.
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"...
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.