does anyone actually believe this serves any purpose other than rallying the evangelicals? there are already laws against assaulting people. this bill is totally unenforceable. it is bad for business. it cost north carolina an estimated $400 million and 1,000 jobs. you have already been using the restroom with transgendered people and there are no reported problems. i also find it ironically hypocritical for trump supporters to be pushing this...trump bragged about sexually assaulting women. he bragged about how since he owned the miss america pageant he could walk in while the women were changing and check them out. miss teen america contestants said he did it to them too. he constantly talks about how hot his daughter is and that if he was not her father he would be dating her. he once told a couple 14 year old girls he would be dating them in a few years. people like donald trump are the ones you need to keep away from women and children. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Hopefully the citizens of Texas will hold Dan Patrick and the rest of the right wing wackos accountable for the financial costs of this embarrassment.
It seems like NC showed that this legislation is a loser economically and the GOP lost the governorship as a result. I was also under the impression that the state of Texas has a rainy day fund from excess oil and gas revenue to compensate for lost revenue during down years. Is the budget actually in bad shape?
Some things don't deserve more discussion other than to say that it is just plain stupid and counterproductive.
Excluding the LBJ to Ann Richards era when we finally funded our colleges and infrastructure into the first world, every political issue in Texas has been a re-fighting of the Alamo and Goliad and a relocating of the Civil War 500 miles west on some cosmic level.
This Dan Patrick is just a complete embarrassment to this state. The better Dan Patrick will be here for the Super Bowl. Maybe we can somehow make a swap.
This bill will die in the Texas House. Speaker Straus has already said that this bill isn't a priority and unlike previous sessions, Joe Straus enters the House unchallenged as Speaker. For those who don't know, Straus is a bit of a relic in Texas politics. He was elected speaker in 2008, when Republicans only had a 2 seat majority in the House and he was elected by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans so for a while we had a quasi-coalition government in the House. Even today, he's still largely propped up by Democrats so as a result, he's much more moderate than Patrick. Plus the Texas Chamber of Commerce will go to bat for Straus to stop this stupidity. Everyone saw what happened in North Carolina and Indiana so I think the odds are pretty good that this doesn't make it through the House. Now if Greg Abbott decides to call a special session to pass this thing, then that's a different story. But even Abbott isn't that stupid. The amount of attention that Texas would get if they called a dedicated session would be too much even for someone like Governor Abbott. To date, Abbott still hasn't actually endorsed the idea of a bathroom bill. This is a Dan Patrick agenda item that will hopefully get railroaded by the House leadership.
And Patrick just announced today that he won't be challenging Abbott in the next elections. So, he'd have to stake his career on this bill if Abbott decides to not pursue it. I agree with the above posters: this is an unfortunate "solution in search of a problem" and North Carolina should be a cautionary tale for other GOP-held legislatures.
These regulations will keep criminals from doing criminal things = bathrooms These regulations will not keep criminals from doing criminal things = guns GOP logic.
in texas the lieutenant governor is more powerful than the governor so if he is really looking to push his religious extremist agenda he probably wants to stay where he is. this bill is just so cynical and transparently pandering. he knows who his supporters are (religious extremists) and he is giving them what they want.
and we can expect more of the same if they continue to push this legislation. the beginnings of a boycott. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rs-over-bathroom-bill/?utm_term=.39fb1f89d4d2
SMH, they should leave the damn trannies alone, they have enough problems already. No law telling them they can't go into certain facilities, no law telling business owners that they have to let them in any certain facilities. Let the free market decide. If you want to have a pro-tranny business, have a pro tranny business, if you want to have a business where biological sex determines what facilities are available for patrons instead of what goofy nonsense is going on in their heads, then do that. It's such a tiny percentage of the population and most of the time it's hard to tell anyway so it really shouldn't be a big deal. No legislation is the best legislation.
Oh no, you will be made to care, that's how the left likes it. Everyone will be compelled to abide by their bathroom beliefs. If you don't think a grown man should have access to women's restrooms, you're a bigot see.
Yes, you are a bigot. Glad to see that you figured that out. Perhaps you can get over it, like the sniffles.
