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July 6, 2022 10:22 AM
Moak Casey, the largest public school consulting firm in the
state, has new leadership including HEB Chairman Charles Butt and retiring
Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Humble.
Per a news release this
morning:
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July 6, 2022 9:44 AM
The poll also shows a record high percentage of Texans believe the state is on the wrong track; majorities oppose outright ban on abortion
James Henson, Director of the Texas Politics Project at the
University of Texas at Austin, wrote:
“The results from several
items on abortion and guns illustrate that state policies pursued in these
areas by Texas Republicans in the 2021 legislative session remain at odds with
the views of a majority of Texans, including large
shares of Republicans. In a result consistent with years of previous polling on
the subject, only 15% of Texans agreed that “abortion should never be
permitted,” including only 23% of Republicans.”
The full
results are here. Depending on your browser, you may have to right click
the link and open in a new tab.
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July 5, 2022 6:30 PM
From the New
York Times this evening:
Two other Trump lawyers
were also subpoenaed: Jacki Pick Deason, who helped make the Trump
team’s case before the Georgia legislature, and Kenneth Chesebro, whose role
has come into sharper focus during the House Jan. 6 hearings in Washington. In
an email exchange with Mr. Eastman in the run-up to the Jan. 6 attack, he wrote
that the Supreme Court would be more likely to act on a Wisconsin legal
challenge “if the justices start to fear that there will be ‘wild’ chaos on
Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.”
Most of those subpoenaed
could not be immediately reached for comment. A spokesman for the Texas Public
Policy Foundation, where Ms. Deason is a senior fellow, declined to comment.
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July 5, 2022 5:07 PM
The letter from Sen. Roland
Gutierrez and Mayor Don McLaughlin to Gov. Greg Abbott can be downloaded
here.
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July 5, 2022 10:02 AM
Amid some private grumbling from down ballot Democrats, effort at coordination aims to "elect Democrats up and down the ballot who will go to work for the people of Texas.”
The Texas Democratic
Party and the campaign of Beto O’Rourke on Tuesday
announced the hiring of a coordinated campaign director – something needed amid
private grumbling from down ballot Democratic candidates frustrated with a lack
of any sort of effort at coordination by O’Rourke.
Lauren Harper, whose resume includes working on O’Rourke’s brief presidential
campaign, will serve in the role.
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July 4, 2022 8:23 AM
Elected to the House in 1978, went to Senate in 1989, served until 1995. Lobbied for public education afterwards. Arrangements pending
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July 2, 2022 11:57 AM
The news via
the Uvalde Leader News:
Pete Arredondo told the
Uvalde Leader-News on Friday that he is resigning from his seat on the Uvalde
City Council. Arredondo, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District
police chief, was elected to the District 3 council
position on May 7 and was sworn into the role on May 31, days after the May 24
mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, where 21 people died.
Arredondo maintains he was
not the incident commander that day. Community members as well as the Texas
Department of Public Safety director Steven McCraw have criticized Arredondo
and other law
enforcement officers for waiting more than an hour to enter classrooms where
the shooter and injured and dying students and teachers were located.
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It almost seems pre-ordained that Beto will squander the Roe opportunity by focusing on the danger to 1% of the population that is LGBTQ instead of the 53% of the Texas population legislated into second class citizen status
Despite being fully
forewarned, the public reaction to the Supreme Court Dobbs
decision landed like a lightning bolt on an already unusually volatile
political environment. The competition for headlines is enormous amidst a war
in Ukraine, inflation, gun violence, and women’s health issues.
The decision dramatically raises
the stakes of the next session of the Legislature because the current
statutory scheme in Texas effectively prohibits all abortions with no
exceptions – a position that does not even come close to matching national and
state polling of the general electorate on the issue. Nevertheless, Texas
Republicans remain sanguine presuming it to be yet another storm to
weather.
With President Joe
Biden’s approval hovering around 40% in Texas, $5 gas, the border in daily
headlines, and “attacks” on guns, Texas Republicans perhaps appropriately
believe there is little to worry about in the current election lineup. With redistricting
locked down, the wind is even more at their backs.
But that confidence may be
misplaced.
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June 30, 2022 7:15 PM
During a special meeting
of the Uvalde City Council, Mayor Don McLaughlin voiced an
appreciation for the way Texas House leadership is handling their
probe into the massacre at Robb Elementary School. Mayor
McLaughlin, who not unlike Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has been a semi-regular guest
on Fox News Channel, added that the Texas Senate’s
public hearing in Austin was of little value.
The only witness before
the Senate, he said, was Texas Department of Public Safety Director
Col. Steve McCraw.
Mayor McLaughlin said he
appreciated the closed-door proceedings of the House, "because they're
trying to get witnesses to be more candid to talk and tell their story more truthfully
than they would in a public setting."
But in the Senate, McLaughlin
said “You had nobody from Uvalde, nobody from anywhere else. The DPS commander
is the only one who spoke."
It is also becoming apparent
now that many of the people who live in Uvalde are also aggravated to have seen
the DPS commander presenting his most detailed account how the tragedy unfolded
to lawmakers before anyone in the local community was given that information.
Developing…
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June 29, 2022 4:18 PM
The
news flash from Bob Garrett at the Dallas Morning News:
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg
Abbott on Wednesday ordered state police to resume inspecting trucks
entering Texas from Mexico after 53 migrants died in a tractor-trailer
abandoned near San Antonio. Abbott continued to blame President Joe Biden,
saying the truck carrying Mexican and Central American migrants who died wasn’t
inspected by Border Patrol agents because that federal agency lacks sufficient
manpower.
The death toll among
unauthorized immigrants crossing deserts or clambering into the back of trucks
as temperatures soar will keep rising if Biden doesn’t act, Abbott warned. “I
urge the president, stop the loss of life,” said Abbott, a two-term Republican
who is up for re-election this year. “You have the ability to stop people from
losing their lives if you make it clear that no one can come across illegally.”
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