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 leadership is acting in a similar manner. Obama’s little helper in the Texas House is Charlie Geren, who will be working today to disclose donors to…
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 Wichita Falls newspaper. The meeting was an apparent attempt by a pro-CSCOPE school board to tamp down growing opposition to CSCOPE,…
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 the families of soon to be deployed military personnel. Gonzales was discussing his own bill related to military personnel, HB 1004, before the House when Stickland…
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 in desperate need of some leadership. How bad has it gotten? Many Republicans are pushing a water slush fund that…
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 reflexively respond to stimuli, but there is no scientific consensus.” “Reflexively respond to stimuli”? Wow. What a phrase. I ‘reflexively responded to the stimuli’ of my…
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 on the wrong side of the 1st Amendment? The latest example is SB 346, authored by an Eppstein client and pushed along by…
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 the scare-name of their “study”, and Garnett Coleman pushed it on KUHF FM in Houston. (The exclamation points are added for effect)…
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 doesn’t. In all likelihood it is an attempt to pressure Reps into waffling on gambling to weaken them for their next primary. After all,…
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 (TxRTL), something that seemed a no-brainer for them. Now this. Texas Right to Life (TxRTL) is going one step further regarding TAL’s end-of-life-care…