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Insanity. Texas will forego federal money and political representation in DC to prevent people from being counted.
Repug bags do whatever it takes to make TX a hole
Republicans shied away from spending money to ensure all Texans get counted.
Texas has big things at stake in the 2020 U.S. Census:
billions of dollars in federal funding and congressional seats that could give the state a bigger say in Washington, D.C. Between that and
Texas’ history of being undercounted,
Democratic lawmakers and policy analysts pushed this legislative session for the state to create a complete count commission and to allocate funds for community outreach.
Texas has one of the biggest shares of hard-to-count communities in the country: 25 percent, or about 6 million people.
Those are groups with low census response rates, including immigrants, people of color, residents of rural areas and very young children.
A George Washington University study found that a 1 percent undercount in the census could result in at least $300 million in federal funding lost for Texas every year for 10 years,
the interval in which the census is performed.
Losses would erode programs whose federal funding relies in part on census data, such as special education grants, foster care, highway planning and construction, and health care services for low-income and elderly people.
The census counts also determine the number of each state’s representatives in Congress and presidential electoral votes. Texas could gain up to three new congressional seats after the 2020 Census, more than any other state stands to gain
more than half of states have made their own plans to ensure an accurate count of their populations in 2020.
California has allocated more money for census outreach than any other state, with $100 million for 2018-19 and another $54 million proposed by Governor Gavin Newsom for 2019-20.
“If we don’t step up, the reality is California’s going to eat our lunch,”
https://www.texasobserver.org/census-legislature-citizenship-billions/
Since the House is capped at 435 Reps for the last 100 years, where would TX get 3 more seats?
Insanity. Texas will forego federal money and political representation in DC to prevent people from being counted.
Can't let Texas cities and the RGV get any more political power, I guess. The wrong party might benefit.
no guess, it's certain that census counting suppression is actually Dem voter suppression
There is also no more plumbing regulation.
anybody can be a plumber now, and there will be lots of unqualified assholes going after plumber's charges and leaving houses' plumbing inoperative.
Libertarians, naive silly assholes every one of them, must be cheering the absence of plumber licensing / certification.
That was weird. Was there no last second fix for that?
and who paid for it?
You didn't have to, I said something similar for myself.
Texas Republicans not doing the best for all Texans because the other party might get a temporary advantage is weak bull and people can see through it.
Will it cause them to vote? Whole 'nother question.
yeah, saw that after I posted.
Well, once the election gets underway in earnest... the Democratic working groups I am tuned into that were created in 2018 have just gotten bigger, and better organized. We learned a lot in 2018. It takes time to rebuild an atrophied party, but I think Texas is going to be a lot closer overall than the usual crowd here thinks.
Jimmy Ricky corrupted the entire state govt by replacing career professionals with political hacks.
No Dem has won statewide office in how many decades?
TX epitomizes Repug gerrymandering and voter suppression
Hispanics/Latinos don't vote
good luck, even if you had $Bs to spend.
"closer" is OK in horse shoes
Last edited by boutons_deux; 06-01-2019 at 07:25 PM.
Uber plumbers on the way
But they did drop the idea to get rid of pet vaccination/neutering suggestion from way out West.
There is a God.
It could not have been home insurance industry.
Or... could it...?? think like Chris, Hater, or Spurtunculus here.
Well at least we saved Chick Fil A from certain demise.
Oligarchy's 5 SCOTUS s almost certain to allow citizenship question on Census, even if the Commerce broke every ing rule to amend the census.
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