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Geren bill cultivates anti-transparency law
There are few things more relevant to voters than their legislators behavior on the job. Charlie Geren’s bill – HB 2377 – updates a law that never should have been passed in the first place, at least,...
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The Tommy Williams Spending Bomb
Senator Tommy Williams is trying to turn our state savings account into dedicated spending, which is like dedicating the the kid’s college account or the retirement account to new boat payments. The...
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Here’s how bankrupt the gambling pitch is
The gambling lobby obsessively pushes expansion, and their only real argument in the revenue it will provide. But even that is a scam, and for reasons you have probably never heard before. Suffice it...
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Seliger’s pro-union, anti-watchdog bill
A pro-union, anti-legislative watchdog bill passed out of the Senate yesterday – Kel Seliger’s SB 346. The fact that six Senators voted against it is noteworthy, since the Senate prefers to project an...
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Texas pro-life drama
There are some strange happenings in the pro-life world this session. First, Texas Alliance for Life (TAL) strangely withheld support for a fetal pain bill being promoted by Texas Right to Life’s...
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Gambling Lobby would set up Reps for primary defeat
Gambling expansion is dead-on-arrival this session. Still, the gambling lobby is pressing on anti-gambling Reps for the future. They’d have them believe the legislation has a chance, but they know it...
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Rep. Coleman makes same bad anti-TX argument
It is a Texas Democrat ritual to misleadingly compare small, homogenous states to our huge, multicultural state to try to drum up support for more spending and bureaucracy. “Texas on the Brink!!!!!” is...
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Eppstein ‘s anti-free speech crew
It’s almost as if consultant and Texas Medical Association (TMA) lobbyist Bryan Eppstein runs the anti 1st Amendment caucus. What else would you say about a consultant with so many clients aggressively...
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Sarah Davis’s cold, cold heart
Becca Aaronson, a Texas Tribune writer, demonstrated the coldness of the pro-abortion community when she wrote, “Abortion opponents believe fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks gestation because they...
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Leadership needed
Last week members of the House State Affairs Committee voted to give illegal aliens state issued drivers IDs. The move is another in a long string of moves signaling that Republicans in the Texas are...
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Larry Gonzales caught stonewalling military families
State Rep. Jonathan Stickland exposed State Rep. Larry Gonzales for putting politics before the families of military personnel. It was revealed Gonzales blackballed Stickland’s HB 202, designed to help...
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Pro-CSCOPE Wichita Falls School Board violates Open Meetings Act
The Wichita Fall School Board looks to have violated the Open Records Act by holding a pro-CSCOPE meeting with the Wichita Country Republican Women, according to a story in the Times Record News, a...
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Charlie Geren with Obama’s IRS
Last week’s news that the IRS under the Obama administration had been targeting conservative groups leading up to the 2012 election wasn’t shocking. What’s interesting is Texas Republican House...
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Texas stands against Chicago politics
Matt Krause (R- Tarrant County) gave a rousing speech yesterday, opposing the passage of SB 346, a House leadership bill designed to silence critics and privilege unions. The law passed, and represents...
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Rep. Larson pleas to keep Texans in the dark
State Rep. Lyle Larson wrote an opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News in a plea to bring back the good ol’ days when special interests passed crony laws without blowback and always fumbled the...
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Taxpayer parasite CSCOPE still alive
Why is CSCOPE being given the time and room to plot it’s next move? CSCOPE has broken trust with Texas parents and taxpayers in every possible way. Intrepid parents and taxpayers like Donna Garner,...
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Texas is needed
“The world is going one direction, and the Texas Republican Party is going in another.” This was written by Paul Burka in a recent blog post, and should be the rallying cry of every Texas Republican in...
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Keep Texans Working out of step with conservatives
Keep Texans Working, a business lobby grassroots initiative, gave a statement lauding the budget as responsible and fiscally sound, just as most of the Texas conservative movement said the exact...
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Turn Texas blue looks weak
A hack Washington DC writer named Brent Budowsky revealed the low quality of the national Democratic push to make progress in Texas. Budowsky is a former Lloyd Bentsen staffer. In The Hill, an activist...
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Rove hits Bachmann on her way out
Reported on by The Blaze in an article entitled, “Guess who said Michelle Bachmann ‘did nothing’ as Tea Party Caucus Chair?”, Karl Rove used his appearance on George Stephanopoulos’ show, alongside...
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