FuzzyLumpkins
05-14-2016, 08:42 PM
DALLAS — Texas Republicans approved their 2016 platform, weighing in on transgender bathroom rules and many other aspects of American life. Party officials, however, averted determined efforts by some delegates to insert a plank in favor of advocating Texas to secede from the United States.
All 266 of the individual platform planks were approved by the delegates, a GOP spokesman confirmed. These stated policy goals of the Texas Republican Party touch on all aspects of American politics: foreign policy, social issues, border security and the role of government.
There was some intrigue over how the platform would come down, because the convention embraced a new means of voting, with thousands of Texas delegates voted on Friday via secret ballots tallied on optical readers. The results were tabulated overnight Friday.
There were other highlights in the platform. Texas Republicans called for federal and state term limits, the elimination of presidential executive orders, the banning photo traffic enforcement cameras within the state limits.
The Texas GOP platform also included strong disapproval of gay lifestyles and no state restrictions of “access to sexual orientation change efforts for self-motivated youth and adults.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/14/texas-republicans-call-new-bathroom-law-avert-sece/
All 266 of the individual platform planks were approved by the delegates, a GOP spokesman confirmed. These stated policy goals of the Texas Republican Party touch on all aspects of American politics: foreign policy, social issues, border security and the role of government.
There was some intrigue over how the platform would come down, because the convention embraced a new means of voting, with thousands of Texas delegates voted on Friday via secret ballots tallied on optical readers. The results were tabulated overnight Friday.
There were other highlights in the platform. Texas Republicans called for federal and state term limits, the elimination of presidential executive orders, the banning photo traffic enforcement cameras within the state limits.
The Texas GOP platform also included strong disapproval of gay lifestyles and no state restrictions of “access to sexual orientation change efforts for self-motivated youth and adults.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/14/texas-republicans-call-new-bathroom-law-avert-sece/