GOP Congressman on bipartisanship: We want "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done"
“Honestly, right now, for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022, and then get in here and lead,” said Roy.
Roy replaced rich white old-money guy Lamar Smith, San Antonio and to the northwest
Most Cuban voters identify as Republicans in 2020.Just waiting for all the babyboomers to die and Florida will turn blue especially by adding more immigrants. Eventually, Texas will turn blue too with all the Californians moving there and the immigrants. That's your fate buddy
Fringe benefits:
Special session ignores pandemic,
energy crisis in prelude to 2022 primary elections
Public health and secure energy are not on the agenda.
Neither is the unresolved matter of how to efficiently and fairly allocate billions of dollars in federal stimulus funds controlled by the state —funds that could prove key to further accelerating the state’s post-pandemic economic rebound.
The priority item, of course, is a bill that
corrals innovative county election officials and
further contains the ways Texans can register and vote.
continuing effort, part of a larger red state initiative to pass voter suppression laws
https://sanantonioreport.org/abbott-special-session-ignores-pandemic-energy-2022-primary
Silly, constipated, ossified, sclerotic, myth-drenched Texas.
30M people now and legislature still meets bi-annually likes it's 1845
All Repugs up for (re) election are matching or out-matching Trash.
America is ed and un able
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-08-2021 at 08:47 AM.
cubans are only 20% of the immigrant population of Florida
Nazi's!!!
26% of FL Hispanics
but only
7% of all Florida
About 3x the next nationality immigrants.
Texas BLACK Man Who Waited Hours to Vote Is Arrested on Charges of Illegal Voting
Hervis Rogers was ineligible to cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential primary because he was still on parole, according to the state’s attorney general.
He now faces four decades in prison.
On Wednesday, he was arrested and charged with two counts of illegal voting, a felony.
According to court do ents, the charges stem from ballots that Mr. Rogers cast on March 3, 2020, and on Nov. 6, 2018, while he was still on parole and not legally permitted to vote.
Texas’ election laws also stipulate that a person must knowingly vote illegally to be guilty of a crime.
Experts say that disparities in sentencing can make felony voting laws inherently discriminatory against minorities and people with low incomes.
Mr. Rogers was being held at the Montgomery County Jail with bail set at $100,000.
He could face upward of 40 years in prison — 20 years for each charge,
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/u...-arrested.html
Hundreds of Texans line up to testify over GOP's voting bill in the special legislative session
The bills’ authors are moving to ban drive-thru and 24-hour voting options, enhance access for partisan poll watchers and prohibit local election officials from proactively distributing applications to request mail-in ballots. Both bills also include language to further restrict the state’s voting-by-mail rules, including new ID requirements for absentee voters.
The bills’ authors are still moving
to ban drive-thru and 24-hour voting options,
enhance access for partisan poll watchers
and prohibit local election officials from proactively distributing applications to request mail-in ballots.
Both bills also include language to
further restrict the state’s voting-by-mail rules,
including new ID requirements for absentee voters.
“By and large, individual voters are trying to vote.
They’re trying to do the right thing.
We want them to do that.
The security measures in this bill, by and large, are
directed at vote harvesters
or folks who are trying to steal votes.”
Texas Republicans have pitched their voting bill as part of an effort
to bolster the security of Texas elections
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07...ng-bill-texas/
hole Texas bag Repugs are full of racist
No evidence of any voter fraud that bag Texans are working so dishonestly to block
Rural counties hurt worst by politicizing bail policy:
My testimony against Texas' bail bill
testified against HB 2 - the Governor's bill attacking judicial discretion in bail setting
it will boost local jail incarceration rates and
put additional upward pressure on property taxes with no particular benefit to public safety,
but with many identifiable harms.
93 Texas counties are paying to house prisoners outside their county jails to avoid exceeding state overcrowding standards.
Nearly all of these are rural and border counties.
This legislation will harm counties by increasing pretrial incarceration in cases where judges previously recommended release.
it will mean more prisoners housed outside the jail for which counties must pay per-diem contract rates.
This bill is completely different from the bills we saw in the regular session.
It doesn’t feel like there’s a plan so much as a political agenda, and that never leads to good outcomes in the justice system.
About 376,000 people were released on bond over this period.
79 went on to kill someone while out on multiple bonds, or 0.02 percent; only 0.01 percent, or,
38 alleged killers, had received multiple felony bonds over the eight years the Chronicle looked at, or an average of just less than 5 per year.
In a city of 2.3 million, with a justice system as vast as Houston’s, these are tiny numbers.
https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.c...-worst-by.html
Gohmert blames Jan. 6 riot on Democrats and a government conspiracy
East Texas tea partier claims that arrests of rioters are a form of ‘intimidation’ and ‘tyranny.’
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...ent-conspiracy
Andy Borowitz
Greg Abbott Calls Texas's New Voting Laws No More Restrictive Than North Korea's
They're just damn fortunate they didn't get mowed down. They'll be ready next time on orders from mother er Biden.Gohmert blames Jan. 6 riot on Democrats and a government conspiracy
East Texas tea partier claims that arrests of rioters are a form of ‘intimidation’ and ‘tyranny.’
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/poli...ent-conspiracy
Texas Democrats plan to leave state to stop GOP voting bill
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...P-16309089.php
Andy Borowitz
Border Wall Fails To Stop Texas Democratic Legislators From Escaping To Mexico
Fascist Abbutt deputizing every citizen into his forced-birth Schutzstaffel
Lawsuit targets Texas abortion law deputizing citizens to enforce six-week ban
Abortion rights advocates and providers filed a federal lawsuit in Texas on Tuesday seeking to block
a new state law empowering individuals to sue anyone assisting a woman with getting an abortion,
including those who provide financial help or drive a pregnant patient to a clinic.
A dozen states have passed laws banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
But the Texas law, set to take effect in September, goes further by
incentivizing private citizens to help enforce the ban -
awarding them at least $10,000 if their court challenges are successful.
Even religious leaders who counsel a pregnant woman considering an abortion could be liable,
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/healthcare/article/Lawsuit-targets-Texas-abortion-law-six-week-ban-16311392.php
still a minority among immigrants
You assume other immigrants all fall on the dem side.
TX behind worst AZ (all states Repug states, cept NV)
These 10 states are America's worst places to live in 2021
KEY POINTS
- Even as the pandemic subsides, many companies are allowing their employees to continue working from home.
- States are increasingly emphasizing their quality of life as they seek to attract business and jobs, but not every state delivers on its promises.
- The pandemic and the push for social justice are changing the definition of quality of life. CNBC takes those changes into account in the latest America's Top States for Business study.
10 Indiana
9 LA
8 AR
7 AL
6 GA
5 TN
3 MO NV
2 TX
1 AZ
2. Texas
Voting rights activists gather during a protest against Texas legislators who are advancing new voting restrictions in Austin, Texas, U.S., May 8, 2021.
For all its strength as a place to do business,
Texas keeps trying to outdo itself when it comes to laws and policies that are seen as exclusionary.
It is one of the only states with no public accommodation law to protect against discrimination.
Texas Democrats thwarted a bill that would have further restricted voting in
a state that is already, by some measures, the hardest to vote in.
That likely saved the Lone Star State from finishing at the bottom of this list,
though Governor Greg Abbott and legislators are pushing ahead in a new special session to pass the legislation.
Democratic lawmakers fled the state as a way to slow down the process and draw national attention,
while the Texas Senate already voted in favor of the bill.
2021 Life, Health and Inclusion score: 104 out of 375 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Hospital resources
Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, health, voting rights, public health funding
https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject....o-live-in.html
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-17-2021 at 06:02 AM.
not all, the majority
Nazi's!!!
and then there's the TX black parolee looking at 40 years in prison, $100K bail, for voting twice on parole
Critical Race Theory, it's the systematic forced on blacks all every day, their entire lives.
Texas Republican Urges Election Audit —
In Counties Biden Won
Texas state Rep. Steve Toth (R) on Monday announced that he had filed legislation calling for a "forensic audit" of the state's 2020 election results.
calls for an audit in "every precinct in each county with a population of 415,000 or more."
This would disproportionately target counties that voted for Biden.
https://www.nationalmemo.com/texas-audit-steve-toth-
"He is a former pastor at Family Life Ministries of the Fellowship of The Woodlands, a congregation now known as The Woodlands Church.[5]
He was formerly an elder and teacher at another non-denominational congregation, WoodsEdge Community Church also in The Woodlands, Texas."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Toth
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