Joe Straus endorsed moderate Mitt Romney for President today. In doing so, Straus has given his own voters front row seats to watch the well-funded moderate inevitability narrative fail in Texas. Straus is relying on the same narrative to carry him to victory against conservative primary challenger Matt Beebe. Yesterday the first Texas GOP primary…
Straus throws in with Romney
TX Mod/Lib messaging arsenal getting weaker
As the dust settles, we’re finding the shouts of “education Armageddon!” from moderates and liberals were every bit as overblown as conservatives said they were at the time. Texas Watchdog today reports that, in the major markets they’ve studied, the overall picture is nothing like it was advertised by the big spending crowd. There were…
No shortage of available budget cuts
Texas Public Policy Foundation found billions in cuts that were ignored last biennium. They began with two simple premises: that services must fit available revenues and that raising revenues would be a short-sighted cooking of the golden goose. Texas is in comparatively strong shape during a national recession. Our reasonable revenue burden is a big reason people…
If big education doesn’t love TX lottery, who does?
Straus’s structural deficit
