Texas Repug doins'

[boutons_deux]

Local Texas officials balk at animus toward cities, plans for sales tax cuts in legislators' secretly recorded meeting

The recording revealed that top Republican lawmakers wanted the 2019 session to be painful for cities and counties — and

2021 to be even worse.

The recording of a conversation between two top Republican state lawmakers and a conservative activist released Tuesday

exposed legislators’ intentional political targeting of cities and counties —

and their plans to make the 2021 legislative session even more painful for local governments.

“Any mayor, county judge that was dumb ass enough to come meet with me, I told them with great clarity, my goal is for this to be the worst session in the history of the legislature for cities and counties,”

Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, said in the recording.

“I hope the next session is even worse,” Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows (https://www.texastribune.org/directory/dustin-burrows/) of Lubbock replied.

Bonnen then said he was “all in for that.”

conversation between Bonnen, Burrows and Michael Quinn Sullivan (https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/15/key-excerpts-secret-recording-house-speaker-dennis-bonnen/),

who is the CEO of the hardline conservative group Empower Texans.

Slowly leaked details of the meeting —

and accusations that Bonnen offered Sullivan press credentials to his group in exchange for politically targeting sitting House members (https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/15/michael-quinn-sullivan-releases-tape-meeting-dennis-bonnen/)

publicly exposed Bonnen’s apparent animus toward local leaders during his first session as speaker — and

Burrows’ plans to

take away a major revenue stream local governments

used to finance everything from

public transit agencies,
major sporting venues,
corporate relocations and
some emergency response services.

"It is a failure of State leadership :lol :lol

for there to be such division between cities and our State,”

“Our cities are our State’s incubators of innovation and engines of economic development.

Most Texans live in cities.

About 84% of Texans live in urban areas.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/15/texas-house-speaker-dennis-bonnen-animus-toward-cities-laid-bare-tape/ (https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/15/texas-house-speaker-dennis-bonnen-animus-toward-cities-laid-bare-tape/)

[boutons_deux]

Michael Quinn Sullivan’s Recorded Conversation with Speaker Bonnen Exposes the Texas GOP for What It’s Always Been


The secret recording confirms the cynicism, vindictiveness, and ugliness at the heart of the Republican politics.

That Bonnen had indeed wanted MQS to dial down his heavy-handed enforcement of conservative discipline in GOP primaries and

instead help Bonnen protect his Republican House majority against the advancing hordes of liberal Democrats. :lol

It also confirms that Bonnen proposed

a potentially legally dubious political transaction,

fueled by the hubris (https://www.texasobserver.org/from-bon-temps-to-bonnghazi-the-tale-of-texas-embattled-house-speaker/%5C) that he could convince Sullivan, the founder of a well-financed PAC that excels at funding right-wing challengers to GOP incumbents,

to serve as his hired hand.

The final confirmation is of the dog-bites-man variety:

The Speaker is
conniving,
arrogant, and
power-hungry, i.e.,

a politician,

though one with little respect for his fellow members in the Legislature.
https://www.texasobserver.org/michael-quinn-sullivan-dennis-bonnen-tape/

Where is the shitbag Repug GOVERNANCE to make their shithole Texas a better state?

Nowhere. It's all slimebag, shitbag ratfucking politics, all the time.