If I ever meet Gov. Abbott, I’d like to punch his face very cordially, in thanks for all he’s done for Texas.
And just simply... an asshole.
If I ever meet Gov. Abbott, I’d like to punch his face very cordially, in thanks for all he’s done for Texas.
EARTHQUAKE!
DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE BODIED
Please. You'll and fall back in it.
Insurrection! Coup attempt!
aw, you care
special session starts Thursday
Gov. Abbott defunding the legislature is an obvious separation of powers issue
Elections bill not referred to elections committee, Briscoe Cain snubbed.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/t...ecial-session/One of the starkest changes to the elections bill in the House for the special session was its author. Rep. Briscoe Cain, the Deer Park Republican who chairs the House Elections Committee, carried the bill in the regular session, but Phelan tapped Rep. Andrew Murr, R-Junction, to take the lead on it during the special session. Murr currently chairs the House Corrections Committee.
On Wednesday, Murr sent a letter to House colleagues announcing he had filed House Bill 3 and was soliciting their feedback.
topically related: Texas settles lawsuit, agrees to provide online voter registration for poeple renewing their DL/State IDs.
Back-door fascism, IMO.
It was wild.
Dan Patrick backdated a Senate vote to get around a consitutional deadline, then GOP Senators made up rules and inserted new language in a closed-door, (R) only caucus.
SB1 is signed
Voting will be broadly suppressed to prevent the infinitessimal threat of voter impersonation to election integrity, partisan poll harrassers will receive legal protection
https://www.kut.org/texas/2021-09-07...new-voting-lawThe measure includes new identification requirements for people voting by mail and prohibits local election officials from sending a vote-by-mail application to someone who hasn't requested one. Voters are also given new opportunities to correct mistakes with their mail ballots.
The law creates a slew of new criminal penalties and requirements for folks who assist voters at the polls, or people who assist others planning to vote by mail.
It also bans drive-through voting and extended voting hours. Republicans in the state argue that these innovations — which officials in Harris County, home to Houston, mostly used during the pandemic — opened the door to voter fraud.
James Slattery, a senior staff attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said voters of color and shift workers benefited the most from these methods of voting last year.
"And so you can consider the bans on those forms of voting to be a direct attack on voters of color in particular," Slattery said in an interview over the summer.
In addition, the law expands what partisan poll watchers can observe during elections and grants them new protections.
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB1/2021/X2
Thank Christ, usually you bas s find an 11th hour way around like this and end up getting the last laugh.
Not this time, Winester. Uh, uh.
LMVICTORIOUSAO!!!
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