The party of "No" in the Texas Lege

Both of these stories come from the Texas Politics blog from yesterday.








I was picking up the story on the student registration story to send out when I noticed the second one too. I can certainly believe that the Rs do not want increased registration, especially of 18-24 year olds - because they aren't voting R, ya know. But to deny small communities to vote for a voluntary fee to support emergency services is unbelievable! :grr:

And to end on a semi-bright note the voter registration bill authored by Representative Anchia HB1654 passed today on a vote of 75-71. All the votes against it were Rs!

Let's hope it now passes the Senate.

Sonia

to vote (we know who that'd benefit). But emergency services, in Texas? $5 a month? I guess Chisum doesn't live near a drought or hurricane zone. Seems they're unified in their obstruction everywhere.

:grr:

These are the kind of stories that don't get media coverage. Note that they came from a blog.

Average busy citizens will never hear about this horrible behavior. Instead we get 24/7 coverage of a fake emergency - in person voter impersonation fraud.

That's what riles me.

Sonia

YES!

Oh, btw, Hilderbran's "Let's make CPS a real Nazi Operation" bill PASSED WITHOUT OPPOSITION out of committee. THANKS FOR NOTHING, DEMS!

dg

On HB4255 and with that kind of support of course it got out of committee. I see that's on calendars for a floor vote tomorrow.

You needed to find a Representative who understood the bill better obviously to oppose it in committee. They're simply voting a bill they think is "for the children". Who is going to vote against a bill "for the children"?

The bill voted out of committee was a committee substitute. Did you read the bill analysis? Is that better/worse than the original?

Sonia

C.S.H.B. 4255 clarifies that, in making a determination regarding a child's health and safety and preventing or eliminating the need to remove the child from the child's home or to make it possible to return the child to the child's home, the court may find that based on the circumstances no reasonable efforts would prevent or eliminate that need and that the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) satisfied its requirement to make reasonable efforts to do so even though DFPS made no such efforts.

sorry, but this is flat-out unconstitutional! The problem with CPS not following the law is not to pass another law excusing them from doing so. Fuck, piss, shit, damn, no one is going to care about this until they start yanking "mainstream" kids.

dg

If there was no opposition in committee and it didn't get improved it's probably going to pass the floor vote.

Your best bet is that it takes so long to get a vote that maybe it just dies for lack of time to pass it in both houses.

Sonia

to get their paws on all those kids.

dg

This is just disgusting. :puke:

And Wolverine, good points about the CPS bill.

folks are smart enough to vote ever increasingly democratic! Those r's are terrified of that cohort. Sooner or later it will lead to their political demise and I am hoping for sooner!

K&R!

Let them brew some more tea on the sidelines.


Sonia

:nuke:

All this inaction by the party of "no" despite the fact that the fund will be insolvent by July, 2009



They got nothing. No ideas, no solutions, nothing but their tired old mantra of "Just Say No".

Sonia

The Republican translation of that is that you have the right to work but not the right to collect unemployment if your sleazy Republican employer lays you off in order to have his company stock go up in price after he lays off 1,000 workers so he can sell some more of his options and buy a new Bentley. To be honest there are some sleazy Democratic employers as well. They're just nicer about the unemployment claims than the sleazy Republican employers.

Reality is Perry and the rest of the Republicans, and some Democrats, are playing politics with the budget trying to make it appear that Texas is doing just fine, ma'am, thank you very much.

Reality is the bottom just hasn't fallen out here yet. But it will.

What's going to happen in July when this fund hits zero?

Perry calls a special session to deal with the issue wasting more money on a special session.

Sonia

I don't think it's happened before. Here or anywhere else. It may have almost happened in California but I think they used general revenue funds. Or borrowed from what they borrowed for the general revenue fund. California is a disaster area. Their comptroller must have kept the books for Enron. I may be wrong about that. But I know there was a question raised about it several months ago. I don't stay on top of things out there like I used to. It's bad enough to have to think about Governor Goober. I try not to think about the Governator as they call him. Two more Boys from Brazil.

I guess Governor Goober could just say "too bad" and cut off the checks. Who knows. I guess it depends on what the law says. Not that the law matters to him or to Greg Abbott.

I am really furious about the rape kits. It is in violation of federal law. They took VAWA funding. The kits are to be paid for by the state. It's a condition very clearly spelled out in the funding requirements. And it's not just in Texas. A number of other states have been doing the same thing. Even California. All the advocates aware of it. And saying and doing absolutely nothing about it.