the question should be who voted for this guys and what did they expect

I am still pissed over Texas having no regulation and then demanding money from FEMA when the fertilizer company blew up and damaged schools and residences that were allowed to built near by, They should have made the company by insurance or sue the then bankrupt company, not expect bles states to pay for their negligence.

restricting business,
I have friends that want me to move there and I have been fighting them because they live in Houston and it jsut seems too hot for my tastes.

What's wrong with Texas? Too many of my fellow Euro-Americans complacently think that Republicans have their best interests at heart and are too detached or lazy to know better, our media is firmly in the hands of editors and publishers in cahoots with the state Republican establishment, and too many poor and minority Texans are too apathetic to vote, even when Tea-bagger Republican legislators are spitting in their faces.

The problem with too many progressive-minded voters is that not only are they ill-informed on contemporary issues, but they forget what all too many incumbent Tea-publicans have done unto them in the past. Forgive and forget is an excellent idea in private life; but when it comes to overseeing their elected officials, too many Texans of all colors forget to hold their local and state officials accountable and to throw them out of office when they misbehave. I suspect that if the occasionally-active but not involved progressive-leaning voters would go to the small bother of making short lists of what their state legislators did to them when the legislative session was over and then dig out their lists again when the 2016 and 2018 elections rolled around, the Republicans would again find out what life is like as a minority party.

I am still upset about the 2014 election. I am beginning to believe that poor and lower middle class-Texans are so clueless and out-of-it that they'll continue to sit on their backsides until conditions in Texas become so bad that many of today's Third World countries would look preferable.

The question should also include a list of condiments that go with it.

Too bad they can't discover the internet and DU--and a number of other enlightening sites.

As you are most likely aware I have nearly all of the major newspapers and several of the smaller newspapers that I search through each day to post stories on DU. The bias towards conservative politicians is noted throughout most of them. The news for liberals and by liberals comes from the "alternative" newspapers such as the Texas Tribune, The Texas Observer; the alternatives in Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio; and the LGBT newspapers and Websites.

Unfortunately, there is not much coordination among those news sources and usually most Texans are not aware of any news outside their local area. If I see a story that is newsworthy to the DU audience, I try to post it even if I'm not a front-line advocate for the cause. I hope that my efforts help to reduce the cluelessness that you described in the last paragraph of your post.

The Texas House's actions are yet another horrid example of how electing Republicans is hazardous to the state's public health. Giving money to failing "abstinence-only" programs is supporting wishful thinking over measures that could have prevented a rise in HIV infections for the next several years.

Once upon a time, I believed that Republican legislators were responsible men and women who were as willing as Democrats to look at unpleasant facts and then act to protect the best interests of the Lone Star State's citizenry. I lost my ability to believe in the Texas GOP's sanity and good judgment decades ago.