May 29, 2025      2:19 PM

Slew of conservative bills including a top Texas GOP priority die in the Texas Senate after significant procedural mistake by Lt. Gov. Patrick

While he’s calling other people “stupid,” Patrick could pay more attention to the rules he created and how they interact with constitutional rules. Mocking those who often critique Texas House leadership, some observers asked, "Are the Democrats running the Senate?"

As time was running out last night for the Texas Senate to act on some of the Republican Party of Texas’ top priorities, Chairman Abraham George was frantically telling grassroots activists to “call your senators now!” Chairman George on social media told the party faithful there were “Only a couple of hours left!”

And there was time to make certain things happen if Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had not made a critical procedural mistake that even Democrats did not at first realize had had given them a rare chance to block conservative legislation in the chamber where Patrick rules with an iron fist.

“Democrats don’t have muscle memory for what to do in those situations,” said a Senate source. But eventually, they figured it out and quite a few conservative priority bills died after Patrick made what can charitably be described as a significant procedural error. The measures that were quietly killed would have restricted “sexual content” in city libraries, cracked down on DEI at medical schools, and punished the City of Austin for various reasons.

Here’s what happened.

By Scott Braddock

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