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Aliquid posted:iirc he won the speaker election with Democrats; doesn't that put his job in jeopardy? The House elected him unanimously this session up from just being elected by mostly Rs last session. He's very well respected, but no doubt fighting with Patrick on these issues has tarnished his shine a little bit with hard Rs in the state. Fortunately, the hard Rs don't have and likely won't have strongarm power in the House like they do in the Senate. edit: To expand, there are more hard Rs in the Senate this session than there are Ds. Hard Rs don't outweigh House Ds (yet). Nancy fucked around with this message at 19:25 on May 23, 2017 |
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Shifty Pony posted:In slight silver linings the bill banning city regulations of AirBnBs didn't make it out of the house committee so it is apparently completely dead. The non-occupant owners of a number of nearby full-time airbnb houses have apparently seen the writing on the wall and the houses are already starting to appear on the MLS for long term lease. Just a heads up, that bill I think you were tracking on short term rentals,SB 451, was just amended into HB 2445. It passed the Senate and if concurred on by the House will be sent to the Governor with the short term rental language included. edit: because they passed it Nancy fucked around with this message at 23:02 on May 23, 2017 |
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Charles Get-Out posted:Just a heads up, that bill I think you were tracking on short term rentals,SB 451, was just amended into HB 2445. It passed the Senate and if concurred on by the House will be sent to the Governor with the short term rental language included. Goddammit I hate the lege. I was going to put "sometimes" in there but I can't think of a time that it isn't true.
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edit cause the Senate's being dumb (again). Tonight's the deadline for bill passage. Only thing after this is one chamber agreeing on or reconciling with amendments the other made. The Senate apparently loaded the calendar up before midnight & a lot of weird poo poo is getting through since 12:00am ticked over. A bill I didn't think would pass did, HB 337, which is loving surprising cause it helps prisoners get health benefits back after release. Nancy fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 25, 2017 |
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Charles Get-Out posted:Just a heads up, that bill I think you were tracking on short term rentals,SB 451, was just amended into HB 2445. It passed the Senate and if concurred on by the House will be sent to the Governor with the short term rental language included. Just to follow up on this: the house has until midnight tonight to lay out the senate amendment and until tomorrow (Friday) to vote on whether to adopt them? Or do they have until Sunday to adopt the amendment if they don't vote for a conference? Hopefully it doesn't happen because as far as I can tell HB2445 is about as low-priority as can be imagined: it allows Denton to use hotel taxes to upgrade their rodeo fields. Seems like the sort of thing that dies by the hundreds every session. As an aside I always find the ways they create provisions for a particular city without actually naming the city pretty hilarious. Here's how they single out Denton: "contains an intersection of Interstates 35E and 35W and at least two public universities"
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Ugh Briscoe is not clever, he's an astoundingly loving dumb child. Not even Stickland is as good at getting Rs to turn on him; Briscoe calling the Palliative Care Advisory Council a "death panel" almost caused a riot from House R doctors. He might've pulled one over on noted moron Wayne Smith, but he's had almost nothing to do with the success or failure of bathroom or any other language this session. Shifty Pony posted:Just to follow up on this: the house has until midnight tonight to lay out the senate amendment and until tomorrow (Friday) to vote on whether to adopt them? Or do they have until Sunday to adopt the amendment if they don't vote for a conference? Yes on the deadlines, the House deadline to concur or appoint a conference committee is tomorrow and, effectively, motions need to be printed and distributed today for them to consider. Unfortunately, those Hotel Occupancy Tax bills are all going to be heard and decided on as those are (mostly) new this session and you can't get rid of or ignore one without stepping on a daisy-chain of toes. Pretty much every member has interest in one. All that being said, the SB 451 long-term rental language is very controversial, so the House could decide to go to conference to strip it off and leave the non-controversial HOTax bits. But now the fun part! Even if language is stripped from one bill, In conference, on pretty much any bill, members may make "Out of Bounds" resolutions to incorporate language outside of the scope of the conference, so that short-term rental language could appear back on a city or county bill right up until Sunday. (Monday is only for technical corrections) tl;dr: Barring the House going all-in on screwing with the Senate, HB 2445 will almost certainly get heard. The SB 451 language might get stripped off in conference, but it could still show up on just about any municipal bill right up til the end. Nancy fucked around with this message at 19:17 on May 25, 2017 |
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X-posting https://twitter.com/TexasTribAbby/status/868099481513975809 So, yeah, expect this probably. And it'll be so blatant it will be struck down by the courts. Just after the 2018 midterms
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holy gently caress, dueling press conferences this afternoon straus: patrick is a dick, we gave in enough and i'll see y'all in two years patrick: gently caress you pussy, it's special session time HERE WE GOOO
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Patrick's conference sucked cause he blames Special on Sunset stuff the House was acting on, but the Senate refused to acknowledge e.g. Patrick's been pocketing the sunset safety net language all session cause he knew he could use it now. I know that SB 6 or HB 2899 are going to pass somehow sooner or later, but I'm glad Straus is at least fighting him on it.
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May 27, 2017 02:45
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Can't Straus sit on his rear end and hang out with his buds at texas chili parlour all day? What's the fallout beyond being excoriated in tea party facebook groups?
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Pretty much, but if you let the bad PR Patrick is trying to spin that it's the House being lovely and not Patrick himself, eventually people beyond Tea Party crazies are gonna care. Patrick did have it right that there will likely be a special session if nothing is done on the sunset stuff though, so we're probably in for that if Straus doesn't compromise (more than he already has, cause he's thrown the Senate lots of bones). I hate Patrick's argument though, because even if you think he's right that Straus isn't respecting the view of the House or the Texas people, the proper remedy is voters voting for people who will respond to what they want & not forcing a special session when you don't get your way.
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When was the last time there wasn't a special session?
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Last session, 84th, for one. And then I think 81st or 80th before that. Usually it's about the budget, not bathrooms.
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Charles Get-Out posted:Last session, 84th, for one. And then I think 81st or 80th before that. Usually it's about the budget, not bathrooms. Oh I thought the Wendy Davis filibuster was last session but turns out it was the one before it
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Yeah special sessions were a cornerstone of my college years, I thought they were pretty ubiquitous but I guess I don't notice when the rest of the world's on fire. also i wasn't too far off with my paraphrasing quote:Texas Speaker Joe Straus : "The House has compromised enough on this issue. It's absurd that bathroom bills have taken on greater urgency than fixing our school finance system." Would a Patrick/Abbott primary be the worst or best thing, i'm broken and can't say
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I have no idea how popular SB6 is with voters statewide, and I'm biased as hell but it still feels like Patrick forcing a special session over loving bathrooms is very stupid and will make the governor look bad unless there's another big issue they can address at the same time.
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FBS posted:I have no idea how popular SB6 is with voters statewide, and I'm biased as hell but it still feels like Patrick forcing a special session over loving bathrooms is very stupid and will make the governor look bad unless there's another big issue they can address at the same time. we're all goldfish and vote along party lines nothing matters *edgy forums emoji*
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Aliquid posted:tbh i've accomplished a lot in life and yet when i went through ft benning as an 11b and convinced my entire 60-person platoon that the graduation vendors selling explicit anti-muslim shirts were full of poo poo and downright evil is a definite high point thanks lf, you legitimately did good
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Charles Get-Out posted:
Looks like the language got stripped by the conference committee and the Tribune doesn't have any information about it popping up elsewhere. Thank goodness.
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Shifty Pony posted:Looks like the language got stripped by the conference committee and the Tribune doesn't have any information about it popping up elsewhere. Good deal! Show's over until the inevitable special session on at least the sunset safety net language, but that short-term rental stuff is almost certainly not going to be in the Governor's special session issue scope.
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Hahahaha. I had sex with this guy's wife multiple times in college before they met. I mean I am not sure how that really matters, I just thought it was funny when I researched him a little and saw her. Plus he is a terrible rep so I guess by the transitive property I hosed him because I hosed his wife? Whatever, gently caress that guy. Also, I am pretty sure Cain was her maiden name in college so he must have taken hers. Briscoe Cain is a pretty over the top perfect for a politician name.
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D-Pad posted:Hahahaha. I had sex with this guy's wife multiple times in college before they met.
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Paracaidas posted:https://twitter.com/SeanCWalsh/status/869226508388364294 Every member of the House Freedom Caucus, with the possible exception of Jeff Leach, pride themselves in being huge dickheads.
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Irving is an interesting place where I go to buy electronics. Hardline reactionary native white elites soaking up the Breitbart and Glenn Beck with a massive foreign-born population that's moved in there the past few years. Excellent Mediterranean restaurants.
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https://twitter.com/JohnsonForTexas/status/869235578834964482 This bill has already been signed, so not sure what the point here is. https://twitter.com/MWatkinsTrib/status/869239634055892992 Guarantee Rinaldi is lying here. https://twitter.com/byjayroot/status/869240658141356037  He's also vulnerable as hell, so if you live in or near NW Dallas, you could do a lot of good by helping out his opponent 2018. There are a lot of Dallas area Republicans that are going to be hosed if there's a D wave in two years. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:22 on May 29, 2017 |
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zoux posted:
Hi Zoux. This reminds me of how Don Zimmerman acted like a crazy person even though he won by like 200 votes. edit: https://twitter.com/byjayroot/status/869248700610117637 
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Hi Badge. Don Zimmerman sucks and is gone. Now we have to deal with loving Ellen Troxclair from Circle C who testified in favor of SB 2 in opposition to every other member of the city council. Also MALC is holding a presser about Rinaldi and they are going off https://twitter.com/sgdegrave/status/869247235036413952 https://twitter.com/byjayroot/status/869248700610117637 https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/869249034602590208 and the fight itself: https://twitter.com/CapitolNar/status/869248475548049412 Lol the loving House.
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If you Google Matt Rinaldi his bio shows as quote:Matthew Daniel "Matt" Rinaldi, is a attorney from Irving, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 115 in Dallas County. He is famous for his wife getting railed by Mexican studs. All day, every day. Wikipedia
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