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Proud Christian Mom posted:Keep Austin Inconvenient. Make Austin Gentrification Accelerated
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Imagine if Austin had like 300k people 
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Aug 9, 2017 22:25
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zoux posted:Imagine if Austin had like 300k people The 70s aren't coming back, dad.
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Aug 9, 2017 22:41
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https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/895469282343100416 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjaSdlFkIm0
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Aug 10, 2017 03:20
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/895469282343100416 This guy was loving hilarious. He lied about having an engineering degree, even though he legitimately had an aeronautics degree and a masters in IT. He won on a wave of anti-incumbancy after a series of water boil notices, and then like 2 days into his term the city faced the worst water crisis yet. He realized he couldn't solve the problem by screaming and being a dick to everyone and resigned soon after.
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Aug 10, 2017 03:27
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Oh yeah he's running for Senate now, so we can all get the joy of voting for him. http://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2017/08/09/exclusive-former-mayor-dan-mcqueen-announces-u-s-senate-bid/554184001/ He wants to reduce the number of representatives. quote:In a Facebook message, McQueen elaborated that his proposed reduction in Congress would be in the House of Representatives. He would like to see "about one rep per million" citizens.
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Aug 10, 2017 04:38
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Considering that seven states have a population of less than 1 million, I wonder how he thinks that would work
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Aug 10, 2017 16:17
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BlueberryCanary posted:Considering that seven states have a population of less than 1 million, I wonder how he thinks that would work Wyoming and Alaska get to share a single representative, as it should be.
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Aug 10, 2017 16:24
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BlueberryCanary posted:Considering that seven states have a population of less than 1 million, I wonder how he thinks that would work Even if they each got one rep, it'd still put us closer to actually propionate representation in the house, so I suspect he hasn't actually done the math on what that would look like as far as shifting the balance of power.
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Aug 10, 2017 16:35
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 The Senate worked like 100 hours and a weekend to pass all this poo poo and the House has just been like nah. They aren't even having a hearing on the bathroom bill and Stickland threw a wall eyed fit from the back mic yesterday about Hunter not scheduling the abortion bills for debate. Right now the probables look like voter mail fraud, the sunset bills and ???? Even SB 1, which had a chance when it had a special "no amendments" rule, is now going to get amended to hell and go down in flames. https://twitter.com/brandigrissom/status/895675174279925760 There were some tweets last week from the state press corps about how senators were pissed off that they worked so hard so Dan Patrick could put that they passed 18/20 items in a week into a press release. Also, by frontloading the session like that, Dan has ceded the news cycle to be pretty much about how the House isn't taking up the bathroom bill. In all I think Patrick way overplayed his hand here. The business community came out twice as hard against the bathroom bill as they did during the regular, with major Texas-based Fortune 500 companies coming out strong in opposition. And the base has largely shrugged at the issue, I think most people, even most Republicans, don't actually buy this as an issue. Incidentally the supporters of the bathroom bill put out their own list of businesses who support the bill and well, enjoy: https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/895329943197851648
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Aug 10, 2017 17:30
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Twerk from Home posted:Wyoming and Alaska get to share a single representative, as it should be. Or their senators can just pull double duty and represent in both houses. Also on that list of supporters, I wonder how Toyota and Kia feel that their brand name was used in relation to this bill. Zil fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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Aug 10, 2017 19:48
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So it sounds like the vilest poo poo is going to stay on the backburner/die in the special session then? Not that it necessarily matters if there's nobody loving running opposite him, but isn't that quite a bit of egg on Abbot/Patrick's face? Call a special session and then get told to gently caress off wrt your signature issue?
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Aug 10, 2017 19:50
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Spiritus Nox posted:So it sounds like the vilest poo poo is going to stay on the backburner/die in the special session then? It's egg on their face for normal people (I think the average Texan's opinion of special sessions is "why are you spending more money on poo poo you couldn't get done) but the plan here is to try to make Joe Strauss look like a liberal Democrat to GOP primary voters. This entire special was caused on purpose by Dan Patrick and the Freedom Caucus at the behest of mega-donors Tim Dunn and Steve Hotze, whose number one goal is to get rid of Strauss as he's the last thing standing between us and a total Christian dominionist state government. Strauss is protecting his members by not forcing votes on bad abortion, anti-city, property tax and bathroom bills, because his moderate members know the bills are bad government but don't want to take votes that risk getting them primaried by Empower Texas. I'll point out that specials are intended to be for emergency issues or issues that would've passed but for some parliamentary fuckery by as few as a single member of the Legislature, but Perry started calling them both to boost his national profile and conservative bona fides, then they found out they could get around the Senate's 2/3s rule that was keeping a bunch of major national GOP priorities from passing. They then got rid of that rule in the Senate two sessions ago and everyone figured that was the end of multiple special sessions. They are not intended for poo poo that one chamber has repeatedly rejected with multiple record votes, like say vouchers or this property tax scheme. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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Aug 10, 2017 19:54
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Spiritus Nox posted:So it sounds like the vilest poo poo is going to stay on the backburner/die in the special session then? Republicans control all three branches of the federal government right now, but it's still the Democrats' fault they couldn't get healthcare reform passed. There's no reason to think it'll any different at this level.
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Aug 10, 2017 19:55
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Keeshhound posted:Republicans control all three branches of the federal government right now, but it's still the Democrats' fault they couldn't get healthcare reform passed. There's no reason to think it'll any different at this level. Currently the President of the United States is blaming the Senate Majority Leader of his own party for the failure. The Democrats aren't even in the conversation of "whose fault is this". What's different between Texas and the feds is that our nutjobs here are extremely competent at pulling the levers of state government and know how to pass their agenda. If Dan Patrick was president (and one day he will be), the ACA would be dead.
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Aug 10, 2017 20:01
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My point was that the buck's going to get passed to someone else. Realistically, who it gets passed to will depend on the audience, but he's not just going to accept the loss and say "well, that didn't turn out how I'd hoped, guess we need to try something different."
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Aug 10, 2017 20:29
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Yeah, like I said, Joe Strauss is who they're gonna try to blame. And it is in fact "his fault" that none of this poo poo got passed, and I thank him for it.
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Aug 10, 2017 20:30
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Is there any reason to expect the far-right's attack on Strauss to fail, or the state legislature to get anything but worse in 2018? I've possibly been reading D&D too much but my only reaction to 'good news' from Austin is to wonder how long it will take the GOP to get around it.
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Aug 11, 2017 02:37
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A hero arises https://twitter.com/thorharris666/status/895767982089154564 LordSloth posted:How the hell did I ever miss this man's instructional video on nazi punching? BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Aug 11, 2017 04:03
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:A hero arises I need "Cause gently caress This 2018" as a campaign slogan bumper sticker like yesterday. Battleground Texas start funding and supporting this man!
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Aug 11, 2017 20:59
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https://twitter.com/KarinaKling/status/897218125069987841 Thank god. Despite Trump's dithering, Texas politicians of all parties have been pretty unequivocal about Charlottesville. Charles Schwertner, who reps A&M, released one of the strongest statements against the rally that I've seen out of a GOP guy, and he's suuuuuper conservative. https://twitter.com/AshleyG_KVUE/status/897207300972326915 https://twitter.com/MWatkinsTrib/status/897219343938965504 pffff zoux fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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Aug 14, 2017 23:12
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Are we still at 4/20 (woo) for Abbot's special session?
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Aug 15, 2017 01:39
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Texas did A Good Thing and it's making me feel odd. Also: zoux posted:Eva deLuna is an extremely pro follow where it comes to demystifying state finance issues, here's a really good thread on why proposed spending caps are so bad. I want to thank zoux for this recommendation and repeat it. I follow a couple reporters and the Trib and Observer but Eva knows her poo poo and stays on top of it.
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Aug 15, 2017 01:42
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https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/897254657470476288 Matt Rinaldi won a swing district iirc but he acts like his only constituent is Michael Quinn Sullivan. It reminds me of Don Zimmerman.
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Aug 15, 2017 01:50
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Yeah if Rinaldi doesn't lose after calling ICE on the whole House gallery we're never gonna have a blue state.
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Aug 15, 2017 01:56
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Does he have an opponent yet?
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Aug 15, 2017 02:06
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Don't think so, but Ocker may challenge him again, she only lost last time by 1%.
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Aug 15, 2017 02:25
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https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/897196308682899456 These people are unbelievable.
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Aug 15, 2017 03:50
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Zoux can you explain to me why the House just adjourned sine die?
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Aug 16, 2017 01:32
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House just adjourned sine die after swallowing the bitter pill of the Senate's school finance proposal. The last thing on the Senate's agenda, which I doubt they'll take, is the House version of property taxes (6% rollback rate). So assuming that's dead what passed was: Sunset Annexation approval Abortion reporting requirements for minors and complications (two different bills) Ban on insurance covering elective abortions Restrictions on municipal tree ordinances DNR reform Mail-in ballot fraud Public ed commission, ASATR help, TRS help (one bill, three items) But not the bathroom bill ahaha. Badger of Basra posted:Zoux can you explain to me why the House just adjourned sine die? Nothing else to do. They only thing possible is a conference committee on SB 1 but due to layout rules etc. there wasn't enough time to take it up before midnight Wednesday. Nothing else was eligible. The Senate doesn't have anything on its agenda today, just concurrences.
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Aug 16, 2017 01:32
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Bad time to publish a Pepe children's book. https://twitter.com/phwolfeDRC/status/897178170063032320
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Aug 16, 2017 01:33
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Oh also https://twitter.com/KarinaKling/status/897621155242283009 Paxton already said he's appealing to SCOTUS so it's not a done deal yet.
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Aug 16, 2017 01:49
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https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/897623854498971648 Joe Straus is real, and strong, and he's my friend.
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Aug 16, 2017 03:39
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Joe Strauss is going to post in this thread in the next few days.. The House GOP is caucusing tomorrow to try and make it so that they, and not the Democrats, elect the speaker.
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Aug 16, 2017 04:10
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zoux posted:Joe Strauss is going to post in this thread in the next few days.. Don't they have to find someone they can all vote for if that's going to happen?
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Aug 16, 2017 04:23
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Badger of Basra posted:Don't they have to find someone they can all vote for if that's going to happen? Matt Schaefer 
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Aug 16, 2017 05:00
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zoux posted:Joe Strauss is going to post in this thread in the next few days.. They went through this exact thing a couple of sessions back, and Strauss still won. A majority of the GOP members still support him, as he's been their best defense against having to make tough votes that would actively hurt them in future elections.
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Aug 16, 2017 14:54
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I'm sure it's more Freedom Caucus whining, most House republicans were probably relieved not to have to vote on the bathroom bill. https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/897884712445857798 Briscoe Cain actually standing up in this photo zoux fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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Aug 16, 2017 18:17
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While Abbott and Patrick throw fits, Strauss seems to be in pretty good shape.quote:Over 80 of the chamber's 95 Republican members reportedly showed up to Wednesday's meeting, which lasted roughly an hour and a half and ended with a standing ovation for Straus. Freedom Caucus members came out of the meeting saying they were looking forward to continuing a discussion about speaker nomination rules at the House Republican Caucus' September retreat. What's funny is that there's nothing they can do about him. They can't rely on insane Dallas and Houston suburban voters to enforce their will on him in the primary, they have to convince voters in San Antonio that they'd be better served by electing a freshman backbench ideologue rather than the current sitting Speaker of the House (which you'd have to be an idiot to do). That hasn't stopped Hotze from running robo-calls and radio ads in his district, but there's really nothing they can do to oust him. And honestly Patrick came across as a raving loon at that presser last night. I'm not a Texas nationalist but I do think that carpetbagging Maryland politicians should be barred from invoking the Alamo.
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zoux posted:While Abbott and Patrick throw fits, Strauss seems to be in pretty good shape. Is their plan to primary Straus or to primary enough of his supporters that he loses the next speaker race?
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