2021 Texas Lege special session

[Winehole23]

No fix for the Texas energy grid, no money for rural hospitals or things Texans need, just pure culture war bullcrap.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5syZN0WQAA3WS1?format=jpg&name=large

[baseline bum]

No fix for the Texas energy grid, no money for rural hospitals or things Texans need, just pure culture war bullcrap.

Abbot's "fix" for the energy grid is taxing wind and giving handouts to natural gas and coal.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol what a garbage government

[Winehole23]

Beto is exaggerating.

If GOP voter suppression works as designed in Texas and elsewhere, it won't be the end of democracy, it'll be a reversion to the historical norm.

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[boutons_deux]

toothess, unenforced legislation, and a "pretty please" letter

Gov. Abbott releases letter of demands for PUC, ERCOT to improve power grid

The bills’ key focus was “weatherization,” requiring an upgrade to power generators and transmission lines to prepare for any “extreme weather” as well as a change in ERCOT’s governance.

Failure to adhere to the “weatherization” regulation, could result in

a fine up to $1 million, :lol Texas electricity is $100Bs

“While these laws significantly reform Texas’ energy and electric power market, more can be done to increase power generation capacity and to ensure the reliability of the Texas power grid.”

Abbott goes on to say the following items are to be adopted immediately.

Below is a list of his demands: :lol



Streamline incentives :lol within the ERCOT market to foster the development and maintenance of adequate and reliable sources of power, like natural gas, coal, and nuclear power.
Allocate reliability costs to generation resources that cannot guarantee their own availability, such as wind or solar power.
Instruct ERCOT to establish a maintenance schedule for natural gas, coal, nuclear, and other non-renewable electricity generators to ensure that there is always an adequate supply of power on the grid to maintain reliable electric service for all Texans.
Order ERCOT to accelerate the development of transmission projects that increase connectivity between existing or new dispatchable generation plants and arcas of need.


https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/07/06/gov--abbott-releases-letter-of-demands-for-puc--ercot-to-improve-power-grid (https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/07/06/gov--abbott-releases-letter-of-demands-for-puc--ercot-to-improve-power-grid)te

[Winehole23]

fuckers

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[boutons_deux]

fuckers

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attacking the press, hiding the truth, pure fascist tactics.

[RandomGuy]

attacking the press, hiding the truth, pure fascist tactics.

Attacking the truth. Agreed.

[Winehole23]

Dems walk out of the special session and presumably will leave the state to elude the long arm of the Sargeant at Arms.

Without a quorum, nothing can pass.

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[Thread]

No fix for the Texas energy grid, no money for rural hospitals or things Texans need, just pure culture war bullcrap.

You threw down that gauntlet with LF's "glee in your eyes." Usually, always, without fail we leave it there bend over and take it like a trouper. Not now. Not since President Trump.

Uh, uh.

[Ef-man]

toothess, unenforced legislation, and a "pretty please" letter

Gov. Abbott releases letter of demands for PUC, ERCOT to improve power grid

The bills’ key focus was “weatherization,” requiring an upgrade to power generators and transmission lines to prepare for any “extreme weather” as well as a change in ERCOT’s governance.

Failure to adhere to the “weatherization” regulation, could result in

a fine up to $1 million, :lol Texas electricity is $100Bs

“While these laws significantly reform Texas’ energy and electric power market, more can be done to increase power generation capacity and to ensure the reliability of the Texas power grid.”

Abbott goes on to say the following items are to be adopted immediately.

Below is a list of his demands: :lol



Streamline incentives :lol within the ERCOT market to foster the development and maintenance of adequate and reliable sources of power, like natural gas, coal, and nuclear power.
Allocate reliability costs to generation resources that cannot guarantee their own availability, such as wind or solar power.
Instruct ERCOT to establish a maintenance schedule for natural gas, coal, nuclear, and other non-renewable electricity generators to ensure that there is always an adequate supply of power on the grid to maintain reliable electric service for all Texans.
Order ERCOT to accelerate the development of transmission projects that increase connectivity between existing or new dispatchable generation plants and arcas of need.


https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/07/06/gov--abbott-releases-letter-of-demands-for-puc--ercot-to-improve-power-grid (https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/07/06/gov--abbott-releases-letter-of-demands-for-puc--ercot-to-improve-power-grid)te



So people can still freeze to death due to incompetence and $1M fine will square everything (at least for state as they keep the funds).

Guess backup plan for texans is to prepare for unscheduled trips to cancun in winter and leave pets to fend for themselves.

[Adam Lambert]

Dems walk out of the special session and presumably will leave the state to elude the long arm of the Sargeant at Arms.

Without a quorum, nothing can pass.

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:tu

[ChumpDumper]

Dems walk out of the special session and presumably will leave the state to elude the long arm of the Sargeant at Arms.

Without a quorum, nothing can pass.

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None of this shit ever deserved any time much less a special session.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Lege didn't take care of business in the regular, too bad about your special session.

why are Republicans so shitty at governing?

[ElNono]

Lege didn't take care of business in the regular, too bad about your special session.

why are Republicans so shitty at governing?

Ridiculous that democratically elected representatives have to flee the State under the threat of the Sergeant at Arms of arresting them and dragging them into Congress... that has to be unconstitutional at the federal level.

[Winehole23]

Ridiculous that democratically elected representatives have to flee the State under the threat of the Sergeant at Arms of arresting them and dragging them into Congress... that has to be unconstitutional at the federal level.didn't there used to be a jail underneath the US Congress?

[ElNono]

didn't there used to be a jail underneath the US Congress?

Not for representatives that didn't want to give quorum?

[Will Hunting]

Ridiculous that democratically elected representatives have to flee the State under the threat of the Sergeant at Arms of arresting them and dragging them into Congress... that has to be unconstitutional at the federal level.
It’s always been that way. When he was majority leader Bob Byrd deployed the Sargent at Arms in the senate when the GOP tried to deny quorum.

[Will Hunting]

The fact you need 2/3rds for quorum in Texas is stupid but glad the Dems in the state leg are pulling out all the stops against Governor Hotwheels.

[ElNono]

It’s always been that way. When he was majority leader Bob Byrd deployed the Sargent at Arms in the senate when the GOP tried to deny quorum.

Its different though. I understand if you're inside Congress locked up in your office, the SaA definitely has the authority and jurisdiction to do that.

But outside the building? I mean having to flee the State? At what point it becomes false arrest, kidnapping, etc?

[Winehole23]

Its different though. I understand if you're inside Congress locked up in your office, the SaA definitely has the authority and jurisdiction to do that.

But outside the building? I mean having to flee the State? At what point it becomes false arrest, kidnapping, etc?IIRC when this happened in 2003, DPS was deputized to facilitate.

[Winehole23]

handwaving, verbiage and the veto, and his fawning-feral minions, are Gov. Abbott's arsenal.

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[Winehole23]

Dade Phelan said he had a plan, what ever happened with that? I thought it was odd that Phelan would publicize the roadblock in the Senate beforehand.

Did he ever say anything after the Dems walked?

What was his plan?

[Thread]

Dade Phelan said he had a plan, what ever happened with that? I thought it was odd that Phelan would publicize the roadblock in the Senate beforehand.

Did he ever say anything after the Dems walked?

What was his plan?

Please. We're still waiting on mother fucker Biden's "plan," Winester. At least 224k of dead Americans don't have to wait for any longer. They're DOA, all 224k of 'em

[Winehole23]

anybody?

[Winehole23]

"we gave them a chance to mend the error of their ways "

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[Winehole23]

lol @ Abbott cabining Republicans and defunding their staff.

[ElNono]

"we gave them a chance to mend the error of their ways "

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I thought they didn't have quorum?

[Winehole23]

I thought they didn't have quorum?


The House rules state (https://house.texas.gov/_media/pdf/House-Rules-of-Procedure-87.pdf)that without a quorum, “no business shall be transacted, except to compel the attendance of absent members or to adjourn.”https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/14/texas-democrats-walkout-quorum/

[pgardn]

I thought they didn't have quorum?

I dont see this clearly answered in the article presented by Winehole.
I guess you dont have to have a quorum on a call of the house because its not legislation?

Anyways, this is quite interesting. Almost comical. No, its comical its so Trumpish.

"Dont tell me what the fkn rules are, I make the rules."

[Winehole23]

https://house.texas.gov/_media/pdf/House-Rules-of-Procedure-87.pdf

[Winehole23]

"call of the House"

[RandomGuy]

Lege didn't take care of business in the regular, too bad about your special session.

why are Republicans so shitty at governing?

Religion poisons everything, IMO.

[RandomGuy]

handwaving, verbiage and the veto, and his fawning-feral minions, are Gov. Abbott's arsenal.

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so despite what Qhris thinks, it isn't about enforcing a law. :lol

[Winehole23]

so despite what Qhris thinks, it isn't about enforcing a law. :lol"call of the house"

[Winehole23]

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[boutons_deux]

Democrats Agree to Return to Texas if Greg Abbott Leaves


https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/democrats-agree-to-return-to-texas-if-greg-abbott-leaves (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/democrats-agree-to-return-to-texas-if-greg-abbott-leaves)

[RandomGuy]

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We are going to get to re-draw districts here by the end of the year.

Us Texas Dems are not going to allow that to go quietly into GOP gerrymandering to disenfranchise us.

No. Fucking. Way.

[Blake]

Democrats Agree to Return to Texas if Greg Abbott Leaves


https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/democrats-agree-to-return-to-texas-if-greg-abbott-leaves (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/democrats-agree-to-return-to-texas-if-greg-abbott-leaves)

Just to have Patrick take over? I'll take hot wheels if I was forced to choose

[Blake]

We are going to get to re-draw districts here by the end of the year.

Us Texas Dems are not going to allow that to go quietly into GOP gerrymandering to disenfranchise us.

No. Fucking. Way.

Gerrymandering needs to go away altogether everywhere

[Will Hunting]

Gerrymandering needs to go away altogether everywhere
It should but as long as it exists I hope New York gerrymanders the fuck out of its upstate districts this year. Right now NY is 19-8 and it wouldn’t be all that challenging to draw a 23-3 map with the population losses in upstate.

[Will Hunting]

Also it’d be hilarious if Illinois actually puts Cuckzinger, Mary Miller and Rodney Davis in the same district.

https://i.ibb.co/6N15yKR/514066-D3-F065-46-B4-985-A-891020285-EB4.jpg

[boutons_deux]

Gerrymandering needs to go away altogether everywhere

SCOTUS denied to take the gerrymandering case, so for the first time "partisan" gerrymandering will rule. Repugs will choose the voters, not voters choosing the candidate.

To take the House in 2022, the fascist Repugs will gerrymander every red/Confederate state to purge all Dem reps.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6hHJ45XMAI0hGm?format=jpg&name=medium

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6hHJ43WEAExgaX?format=jpg&name=medium

[Winehole23]

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[pgardn]

Patriotic legislation would involve the truth.
this is gonna be a problem, or not, since lying has become the easy weapon of the red team

[Winehole23]

doomed anti-CRT legislation passed in the Senate waters down social studies standards, showing us what they're really concerned about, teaching kids about ethnic cleansing, civil rights, segregation, trade unionism and equality for women.

the following would be out, if passed.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6lVj3pXIAYo0aL?format=jpg&name=large

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[Winehole23]

teaching kids that the KKK is bad might harm their self-esteem by giving them too one-sided a view of things

[Winehole23]

Teaching about the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments would be optional in Texas under this bill.

[Winehole23]

Abbott's Article X veto will gut constituent services


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7O1FKzXsAUgEUO?format=png&name=900x900

[Adam Lambert]

Teaching about the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments would be optional in Texas under this bill.

That's okay, as long as we build some statues of those amendments, their history is preserved.

[spurraider21]

Teaching about the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments would be optional in Texas under this bill.
well those amendments are just critical race theory

[MultiTroll]

Abbott's Article X veto will gut constituent services
Surely Hot Wheels will be cleaning his own offices, right?

[Winehole23]

Second verse, ostensibly same as the first.

My big curiosity is how the Rs think they'll be able to change quorum requirements without changing the Texas Constitution -- perhaps they'll just add fines and punishments for quorum breaking.

Texas governor calls second special session in push for voting restrictions (https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-governor-calls-second-special-session-in-push-for-voting-restrictions/)

[Winehole23]

10 (R)s out with COVID

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[Thread]

10 (R)s out with COVID

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Grab some jacks & timbers & start back down. There is nary other way.

[boutons_deux]

10 (R)s out with COVID

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:clap:lmao

[boutons_deux]

:clap:lmao

Repugs cripple their very own fascist leader

[Thread]

:clap:lmao


Repugs cripple their very own fascist leader

bouts, citing himself.

tee, hee.

[ChumpDumper]

10 (R)s out with COVID

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https://media.giphy.com/media/Q802P2hVynigDtkXzN/giphy.gif

[pgardn]

well those amendments are just critical race theory

why cant they just use the 2nd amendment to shoot the offensive anachronistic amendments?

[Winehole23]

wrong thread

[Winehole23]

COVID for thee but not for me

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[ElNono]

COVID for thee but not for me

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Interesting since both locations are full of children...

[Winehole23]

TX GOP throttles public input

House and Senate bills with the same subject routinely vary in substance.

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[Winehole23]

Self fucking own. :lmao :lmao

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8R5FudVkAAEE6i?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8SOicYWQAUt5wF?format=png&name=900x900

[Winehole23]

oozing with contempt for the public and the process

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

"election security" is a power grab

what Republicans are really scared of is getting thrown out of office by voters, so damn the voters.

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[ChumpDumper]

Popular guy....
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[Winehole23]

could get interesting, hope the Dems saw this coming

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[Thread]

could get interesting, hope the Dems saw this coming

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The Winester, running as fast as he can of a Tuesday mornin'.

[Winehole23]

This message is hidden because Thread is on your ignore list (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/profile.php?do=ignorelist).

[Winehole23]

for the Dems to end up essentially having done nothing but make a grand gesture would be quintessentially the Dems.

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[boutons_deux]

The Dems absconding but not stopping the laws shows what fascist, racist SHITHOLE that Texas is as MISgoverned by the shitbag Repugs

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[SnakeBoy]

for the Dems to end up essentially having done nothing but make a grand gesture would be quintessentially the Dems.

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Why do you hate democracy?

[pgardn]

Why do you hate democracy?

Why do you hate the idea of more voter participation?
So we got on the one hand, everybody saying how wonderful it is if our country fully participates in a democracy and votes, and we got the other side saying there is massive fraud and huge numbers of people are voting that should not be.

Where do you stand? Do you think we need more laws to be able to vote besides being 18 and a citizen? maybe an IQ test? proof that you have a white European ancestry that worshipped kings and queens? what? What is the problem here?

[Winehole23]

Why do you hate democracy?say what?

[Winehole23]

all they had to do was stay out of Texas long enough to screw up redistricting, another month or two, tops.

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[Winehole23]

special session 2.0 is about to reach ramming speed

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[Winehole23]

decorum being strictly enforced

members are not allowed use the word racism with respect to the Senate's racist election bill

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[Winehole23]

Shitty election bill passes. Texas was already the toughest place to vote in the country.

https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB1

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Obama, for letting the GOP steal a justice, and RBG, for holding onto it too long.

Hope Breyer doesn't make it worse. Expanding the Supreme Court isn't just a reasonable option at this point, it's necessary.

[Thread]

Obama, for letting the GOP steal a justice, and RBG, for holding onto it too long.

Hope Breyer doesn't make it worse. Expanding the Supreme Court isn't just a reasonable option at this point, it's necessary.

Especially RBG, all they had to do was clear it with her family; jam a ventilator down her gullet, put it on autopilot and turn out the lights.

Viola! Garland is sitting in there right-this-minute instead of flat out refusing to chase President Trump around with both hands full of subpoenas.

[Thread]

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Sure, we demagogue our asses off, yes! But we learned what you taught us all across the spectrum and now we harass you with your own medicine.

Stings, don't it?

[Winehole23]

radical Republicans doing radical things

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[Winehole23]

oh, but left wing college students are the real threat to freedom this country.

[Winehole23]

hardly unthinkable, tbh

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[pgardn]

Especially RBG, all they had to do was clear it with her family; jam a ventilator down her gullet, put it on autopilot and turn out the lights.

Viola! Garland is sitting in there right-this-minute instead of flat out refusing to chase President Trump around with both hands full of subpoenas.

Thank Big FAT Trump and Big FAT Bill Barr for that.
So much to clean up when fat guys eat like slobs.

[pgardn]

Sure, we demagogue our asses off, yes! But we learned what you taught us all across the spectrum and now we harass you with your own medicine.

Stings, don't it?

You really dont want to play that game.
Blaming who did what first while burning your face off is not healthy.

[boutons_deux]

radical Republicans doing radical things

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shitbag Repugs run shithole states

[Winehole23]

very bad news for the Texas Lege, Texans are paying attention this year

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[Winehole23]

Special session 3.0

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-tzWlAWEAY2EFe?format=jpg&name=medium

[boutons_deux]

The Republican-authored legislation would require voters to submit either their driver’s license number or a partial Social Security number when applying to vote by mail.

That number would then be cross-checked with the state’s voter-registration database.

Most applicants would be fine, because almost 90 percent of all registered Texas voters have both their Social Security number and driver’s license number in the database.

However, 1.9 million voters—about 11 percent of the total—have only one of the two numbers on file with the state.

most of the voters with only one number on file wouldn’t remember which number they filed, often many years earlier, and would have to guess.

“You have a 50 percent chance of the voter guessing wrong,” said Davis.

Guess wrong and your application would be rejected, even if it’s been twenty years since you used your Social Security or driver’s license number to register to vote.

“I challenge any person on the committee:

do you remember what you filled out when you got your voter registration? I certainly don’t. And I’m in the business of this.

And if [the numbers] don’t match, we’re rejecting.”

Some 11 percent of Texas voters cast their ballots by mail in 2020 (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-absentee-voting-looked-like-in-all-50-states/), so if that percentage held up in future elections,

209,000 of the 1.9 million voters with only one ID number on file with the state would be requesting mail-in ballots.

If most of those voters are guessing which ID number to cite on their application,

and they have a 50 percent chance of guessing correctly,

then 104,500 of them would have their applications rejected.

Some of these voters might find other ways to vote, including in person.

But some with serious disabilities, or those who have to be out of state during the period when polls are open, would be out of luck.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-election-bill-contains-new-voting-obstacle/ (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-election-bill-contains-new-voting-obstacle/)

[boutons_deux]

They are setting

new rules for voting by mail,

boosting the role of partisan poll watchers and

rolling back local initiatives meant to make it easier to vote —

specifically those championed by Harris County that were disproportionately used by voters of color —

while expanding access in more conservative, rural areas.

Changes to the Texas election process in SB 1 include



A ban on drive-thru voting (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#476e3d66-bbbc-4b1b-8a60-64f0ee039b00)
New regulations for early voting hours, including a ban on 24-hour voting (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#f1d5da6d-6836-4a4b-a9ac-59a3b0b30bd2)
A ban on the distribution of mail-in ballot applications (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#16c45b2b-04a8-4946-95f9-4bfc78548ddf)
New ID requirements for voting by mail (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#3cf00bdc-e125-4d10-bad3-af8af975dbe2)
A correction process for mail-in voting (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#4be2a4b9-9389-4155-9d2e-40936b2b97bc)
Enhancing poll watcher protections (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#1ba5aa22-152f-426b-934a-9a7069854f0c)
Establishing monthly citizenship checks (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#e1578570-e1b5-4772-b31a-a362c6d9b6ce)
Creating new rules for voter assistance (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/#ea66483b-58ef-4db9-8412-f1765b670a20)


It will become a state jail felony for local election officials to send unsolicited applications to request a mail-in ballot.

The state currently uses a signature matching process to verify completed ballots. :lol

strengthen the autonomy of partisan poll watchers at polling places by granting them “free movement” within a polling place,

The bill would establish new requirements — and possible criminal penalties — for those who assist voters who need help filling out their ballots, including voters with disabilities.

The person assisting must fill out new paperwork disclosing their relationship to the voter.

Assistants must also recite an expanded oath, now under the penalty of perjury, stating they did not “pressure or coerce” the voter into choosing them for assistance.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/

[Winehole23]

some real fucked up shite

feels fashy

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[Winehole23]

text: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB28/2021/X3

[Winehole23]

Texas strengthens abortion ban, outlaws abortifacient drugs after 7 weeks


“A bill adding more restrictions and raising criminal penalties for the use of abortion-inducing medication in Texas goes into effect in December after being signed with no fanfare by Gov. Greg Abbott (R),” the Dallas Morning News (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/09/20/gov-greg-abbott-signs-more-texas-abortion-restrictions-penalties-into-law/) reports.


“Senate Bill 4, which passed during the second special session that adjourned Sept. 2, has been decried as a ‘back-door ban on abortion’ by Planned Parenthood officials because it outlaws providing abortion-inducing drugs to Texans after seven weeks of pregnancy.”
https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/21/abbott-quietly-signs-bill-with-more-abortion-restrictions/

the bill:https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB4/2021/X2

[Winehole23]

some states are using COVID relief money to buy hi-tech shit for police departments

in Texas, we prefer openly fellating property owners

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[Winehole23]

the Texas lege gets away with it when it operates under the radar. could be a different dynamic this time.

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_vKvL7WQAEVc46?format=jpg&name=large

[Winehole23]

Trump lobbies Abbott to add a 2020 election audit to the special session

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[Winehole23]

ramming speed

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[Winehole23]

SB 3 would ban trans students from participating in UIL sports

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB3/2021/X3

[SnakeBoy]

SB 3 would ban trans students from participating in UIL sports

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB3/2021/X3

:tu

[DarrinS]

SB 3 would ban trans students from participating in UIL sports

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB3/2021/X3


You must be out getting your ten miles in.


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[ChumpDumper]

:lol Trumptards wringing hands about nonproblems while not fixing the power grid at all.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

"color-blind"


How the boundaries of Senate District 10 could changeSenate District 10 is currently 413 square miles, all inside Tarrant County where there is a growing Asian, Black and Hispanic population. Lawmakers propose expanding the district to 6,233 square miles, including eight rural counties with more white eligible voters.https://graphics.texastribune.org/graphics/redistricting-sd10-tarrant-maps-2021-09/assets/images/sd-10-maps-664-3346234369.jpghttps://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/04/texas-redistricting-tarrant-county/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

oh, and the 2020 election audit bill passed the Senate too. it would allow county clerks to allege irregularities and request election reviews without evidence.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/873/billtext/pdf/SB00047S.pdf#navpanes=0

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[Winehole23]

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[CosmicCowboy]

SB 3 would ban trans students from participating in UIL sports

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB3/2021/X3

It doesn't prevent them from participating in sports. It prevents biological males participating as women. The humans with dicks can always compete as males.

[Winehole23]

It doesn't prevent them from participating in sports. It prevents biological males participating as women. The humans with dicks can always compete as males.read the law, dummy. it's right there in the first paragraph.

[Winehole23]

lo intoning authoritatively on a law you failed to read.

looks like your transphobia just hijacked your integrity.

:lol

[Winehole23]

Republican lawmaker admits the anti-trans bill is a solution in search of a problem

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[Winehole23]

will Abbott call another special session to pass anti-vaccine legislation?

Texas GOP still playing D for SARS-CoV-2

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA5aDi7XEAMNMXx?format=jpg&name=small

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[Winehole23]

color blind

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[Winehole23]

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[boutons_deux]

"book burning" without fires.

Several other states use TX's sanitized, white-washed school textbooks.

[RandomGuy]

color blind

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"GOP got 53% of vote in 2020 but would control 65% seats"

That is the goal innit? Democracy for me, but not for thee.

[DMC]

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That's Chaka, not Bigfoot.

[boutons_deux]

"GOP got 53% of vote in 2020 but would control 65% seats"

That is the goal innit? Democracy for me, but not for thee.

same in NC. Repugs realized their partisan gerrymander was so extreme, they backed off and gave the Dems (knitters) a seat or two.

[Winehole23]

That's Chaka, not Bigfoot.I know that, you silly man. I was eight years old in 1975 — LAND OF THE LOST’s target audience, watching Saturday morning TV in my jammies.

[DMC]

I know that, you silly man. I was eight years old in 1975 — LAND OF THE LOST’s target audience, watching Saturday morning TV in my jammies.
Did you know Cha-ka got his start as a young black belt who appeared with Chuck Norris on Carson? That brings it full circle with the "Braddock" tweet above.
You should see how fucking ugly Holly is now.

[Winehole23]

Did you know Cha-Ka got his start as a young black belt who appeared with Chuck Norris on Carson? That brings it full circle with the "Braddock" tweet above.Didn’t know that — I was bitten by the martial arts bug back then too.



You should see how fucking ugly Holly is now.You sound disgusted, your unpleasant experience is unfortunate.

[DMC]

Didn’t know that — I was bitten by the martial arts bug back then too.


You sound disgusted, your unpleasant experience is unfortunate.

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[Winehole23]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7d/85/f7/7d85f781757b577d3caca7410aa3696b.jpgso what's your gripe? that she looks fifty years older?

that she no longer looks like a thirteen year old girl?

[Thread]

so what's your gripe? that she looks fifty years older?

that she no longer looks like a thirteen year old girl?

Yes.

The lone blessing? That she wasn't Kim Richards, who at first blush I heartily believed she was. With shaky fingers I went to the IMDB.

[Winehole23]

why couldn't Republicans get their business done in the regular session? this is their third do over.

lol banning mandates by executive mandate

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[Winehole23]

our business friendly gov can't stop telling job creators how to run their businesses

[Winehole23]

Just COVID vaccines?

Why not MMR, polio, varicella, meningitis, DTaP, hepatitis, etc..?

[Trainwreck2100]

why couldn't Republicans get their business done in the regular session? this is their third do over.

lol banning mandates by executive mandate

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He's banking on by the time this gets killed in the courts that COVID will be a small issue

[boutons_deux]

why couldn't Republicans get their business done in the regular session? this is their third do over.

lol banning mandates by executive mandate

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29M citizens, and Texas cowboys run the state like it wuz the horse-ridin' 19th century.

"We're a broken state, and we like being a broken state. Texas! Fuck yeah!"

[Winehole23]

He's banking on by the time this gets killed in the courts that COVID will be a small issueGreg Abbott is already done for, he's not radical enough for Texas Republicans no matter how hard he tries.

[Winehole23]

Gerrymandering in the dead of night without public comment or expert testimony isn't illegal, but it's very unusual.

Texas GOP apparently has little confidence in its ability to attract new voters or win fair elections.

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[Winehole23]

another wrinkle in Texas war on women

it's about about social control, not the unborn

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[Winehole23]

why is the GOP so fixated on your kid's genitals?

this is a legislative solution for an evidence-free problem

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[Winehole23]

such an emergency it took four tries

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/grieder/article/Grieder-Passage-of-mean-spirited-transgender-16535963.php

[Winehole23]

why is the GOP so fixated on your kid's genitals?

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[Winehole23]

"race-blind"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBwByDjXIAEPKKr?format=jpg&name=medium

[Winehole23]

"still race-blind"

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[Winehole23]

special legislative sessions in principle are for legilsative emergencies

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

the historically wretched 2021 Texas legislative session is over...

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[Winehole23]

Dan Patrick wants another special session to enhance penalties for illegal voting, a violation roughly as common as getting struck by lightning.

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[Will Hunting]

Since Trump basically said that he's telling the MAGAboomers to stay home in 2022 if there aren't more statewide audits I'd expect this to be one of many special legislative sessions.

[Winehole23]

Since Trump basically said that he's telling the MAGAboomers to stay home in 2022 if there aren't more statewide audits I'd expect this to be one of many special legislative sessions.We've already had three...

[Winehole23]

This appointment could be a sign there will be no more special sessions. It's further confirmation of the GOP playbook: to throw out election results unfavorable to the GOP where possible.

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[Winehole23]

oh, and the 2020 election audit bill passed the Senate too. it would allow county clerks to allege irregularities and request election reviews without evidence.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/873/billtext/pdf/SB00047S.pdf#navpanes=0believe it or not, Harris County was one of three counties pulled at random from a hat.

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[Winehole23]

believe it or not, Harris County was one of three counties pulled at random from a hat.

1582596334703742976Harris Co. Dems request federal election monitors to counter Paxton's goon squad.

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