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zoux posted:You still have to appear in court and face the regular charges, this is just a policy change. Officers have always had the option to ticket and release they just don't. Isn't that just basically accidental decriminalization though? That still rules when you consider there were lobbyists in the capitol calling it satan's drug or whatever the gently caress
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Spaced God posted:Isn't that just basically accidental decriminalization though? That still rules when you consider there were lobbyists in the capitol calling it satan's drug or whatever the gently caress The difference is you don't spend a night in jail (or more if you can't bail out and the judge is a dick). You still have to appear in court to face the same charges, just like you would otherwise. I think the deal is that since the county prosecutors handle these low level cases, DPS doesn't want to waste resources arresting a bunch of people when they know it's just going to get dropped. I mean, it's good, getting arrested sucks, but if you get busted in a county that's still prosecuting, you're still facing court and the same penalties. yeah see: quote:There are also restrictions to the policy directive. Under Texas law, citations in lieu of arrest are only allowed if the suspected crime happens in the same county where the person lives. Marijuana found during traffic stops outside of a suspect’s home county along Texas highways, where DPS troopers often patrol, would still result in arrests. zoux fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Just give my yankee carpetbagging rear end the little victories, zoux 
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Sadly, this still comes in pretty light on actual consquences when judged on the "We technically outlawed all marriages, by accident"-to-"Oh, hey, I guess the Berlin wall is open to traffic now, omfgsovietuniondissolves" scale of bureaucratic gently caress ups. But it is a start.
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I just got a robo call from Cornyn fishing for contacts to farm messaging to. That is literally a first that a Repulican in this state has called me. He shook.
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Ortiz-Jones go for it!
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I think she already said she was running too
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This seat touches San Antonio so I’m sure they will find a way to lose it anyway
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drat, wasn’t expecting Hurd to not run again. Private sector $$$$$$$
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Spaced God posted:Just give my yankee carpetbagging rear end the little victories, zoux Love it or leave it. I do think moving here at 18 for college and then calling it a garbage hellstate isn't ideal. Texas is pretty cool, and even the GOP can be reasonable. When you talk to your Jersey friends - let them know we are the world's leader in wind energy because Rick Perry got the state government to build the CREZ transmission lines to transport power from the panhandle to market. The Tea Party movement destroyed the ability for the state government as constituted to take positive steps though.
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I loving love the ballot measure designed to ensure that anti-tax minarchists shitbags turn out for local elections even more than they usually do for non-Presidential election years. I haven't looked in detail at the other ballot measures but I'm sure there's something unbelievably toxic in there too that this will drive turnout for. Because that's how politics in this goddamned state work.Proposition 4 posted:The constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of an individual income tax, including a tax on an individual’s share of partnership and unincorporated association income. There are already enough barriers to a state income tax in place that it won't happen barring change on the level of Thanos snapping. There's no legitimate reason for this bullshit other than to further throw red meat to the chuds. gently caress.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I loving love the ballot measure designed to ensure that anti-tax minarchists shitbags turn out for local elections even more than they usually do for non-Presidential election years. I haven't looked in detail at the other ballot measures but I'm sure there's something unbelievably toxic in there too that this will drive turnout for. Because that's how politics in this goddamned state work. I've got good news for you. Now, every single time a local entity wants to raise taxes by more than 3.5% (as shows by the average year over year increase for the average home in a taxing jurisdiction) there is automatically an election to prevent that increase.
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Sab0921 posted:Love it or leave it. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I love about texas! Houston (excluding obvious infrastructure issues) is one of the best, most culturally rich cities in the country, I spent my underclassmen years going to Austin and Denton for killer music, etc etc etc. I'm just a jaded piece of poo poo because I live in bumfuck college station and have to listen to people talk about how Iraq is a socialist state and look at how good they are and how the world would be better if everyone had a gun. Texas is great when it's good, but awful when it's not.
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Spaced God posted:Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I love about texas! Houston (excluding obvious infrastructure issues) is one of the best, most culturally rich cities in the country, I spent my underclassmen years going to Austin and Denton for killer music, etc etc etc. I'm just a jaded piece of poo poo because I live in bumfuck college station and have to listen to people talk about how Iraq is a socialist state and look at how good they are and how the world would be better if everyone had a gun. Texas is great when it's good, but awful when it's not. The best and worst thing about Texas are the people.
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https://twitter.com/startelegram/status/1157130950108733440 Fun fact: the Dallas Morning News web headline for this story is currently "Authorities identify woman shot to death when Arlington officer fired on loose dog"
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"As the officer called out to Brooks, the barking dog ran toward the officer, police said. The officer retreated, then fired multiple times toward the dog, police said. Brooks yelled, and it became clear that she had been shot." As opposed to, say, getting back in the car.
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https://twitter.com/caitmeise/status/1157307987876286465 I think you should probably plan for a press conference my dude https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1157307042446610433 The party is doomed
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Delaware... wut? Oh wait, that's orange, not yellow. That makes slightly more sense?
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zoux posted:The party is doomed I wish
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One good thing about this Bonnen poo poo is that they can't call a special to fix accidentally decriminalizing weed because then the House would have to have it out. I think Bonnen's just hoping this blows over by '21.
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If they weren’t meeting to talk about primarying some Republicans what do y’all think they were talking about? Like idk why Bonnen would want this meeting
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https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1157097734446428162 It's time for liberals not from Texas to start thinking the GOP needs to worry about Texas
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zoux posted:The party is doomed The sooner the better, but it won't change the fact that a huge portion of the right wing are complete assholes, and that's never gonna change even if the GOP fails nationally. It's not like they're going to stop being racist hatemongers after the next election.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157352001593892864 Womp womp
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my actual reactions reading this postSpaced God posted:Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I love about texas! Houston (excluding obvious infrastructure issues) is one of the best, most culturally rich cities in the country, I spent my underclassmen years going to Austin and Denton for killer music, etc etc etc. Spaced God posted:I'm just a jaded piece of poo poo because I live in bumfuck college station and have to listen to people talk about how Iraq is a socialist state and look at how good they are and how the world would be better if everyone had a gun. Texas is great when it's good, but awful when it's not.  zoux posted:https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1157097734446428162 There's a certain quota for "Purple Texas!" takes that absolutely -must- be met before Nov 2020.
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FBS posted:it's El Paso's turn in the Weekly Meaningless Horrific Tragedy spotlight Eagerly awaiting the newest crop of op eds and twitter posts from the rightwing shitlib crew about how we shouldn't politicize the white nationalist terrorism and that these poor young white children know not what they do. e: these loving dipshits jesus christ lmfao https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1157732277108875264?s=20 Marxalot fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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FBS posted:it's El Paso's turn in the Weekly Meaningless Horrific Tragedy spotlight In an unintentional callback to this thread's title (for those reading this months later, it's currently "Texas Politics: I don't think you grasp how big this state is yet"), my father-in-law, who lives in Nevada, called us (who live in San Antonio) to ask if El Paso was near us. I am pretty sure he's closer to El Paso. Also the Beto-for-President campaign sent out an e-mail reassuring me that all the campaign volunteers were safe, which was... uh... about ninety-third on my list of concerns, really, right ahead of "is there anybody I'm going to see at church tomorrow who had a cousin who saw something scary on television?" and right after "am I going to get an appalling fundraising e-mail from the DNC before 9am on Monday?"
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corn in the bible posted:https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-lt-gov-tells-antifa-to-stay-out-of-el-paso-after-walmart-shooting https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1157778372287705088 This is the natural conclusion of years of Latinos being vilified, but especially with El Paso serving as a geographic symbol of people's fears and assumptions about the border and its people. I've never actually been to El Paso, but I feel like I hear more love for it from the politicians who represent it than about almost anywhere else in Texas (maybe Houston).
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