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Wichita County also said they'd issue licenses starting Monday. (It's yellow on the map.)
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Abbott appointed a homeschooler to lead the Board of Education.
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Jun 28, 2015 07:42
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Are the Texas Rangers investigating that because Lege turned the corruption-investigating power over to them rather than the Travis County DA? Because it would be real funny if Paxton gets hosed because the Rangers are much better investigators.
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Jul 2, 2015 06:46
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Dan Patrick's tea party advisory group is disbanding because the Legislature isn't bugfuck crazy enough for their tastes.quote:During the recent legislative session, the board of tea party activists that advised Patrick described a major bipartisan pre-K initiative championed by Gov. Greg Abbott as socialist and keeping children in a “Godless environment.” The initiative passed, including in the Texas Senate over which Patrick presides, and Abbott signed it into law.
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Jul 4, 2015 05:51
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Captain Bravo posted:Sometimes, the tea party just makes me think "What in the goddamned gently caress?" That's the most sensible thing they've ever proposed by a long shot.
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Jul 4, 2015 08:06
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Captain Bravo posted:I just don't understand how that, in any way, ties in with the rest of their party platform. It's so completely out of left field. I think it's falls under the "You can't tell me what to do" part of their platform.
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Jul 4, 2015 08:43
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Haha. Paxton now has an employment scandal brewing. Gave government jobs to staffers of his campaign without posting the openings.
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Jul 5, 2015 03:02
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My Face When posted:Just a wonderful reminder that East Texas is poo poo. Also, to write Bible verses. And he can't call his job to explain his absence if he chooses jail. And I guess the woman's thoughts on the matter are irrelevant?
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The funniest part to me was that Miller's spokesman said he doesn't condone it, but did go out of his way to mention how many positive responses the post got.
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Crossposting from the criminal justice thread because my state loving blows: The Texas Mutual Insurance Company has straight-up purchased Travis County prosecutors and uses their indictment power to turn business disputes (and workers' comp claims) into criminal cases. quote:Still, in exchange for guaranteed payments from Texas Mutual of more than $400,000 a year, the Travis County district attorney’s office prosecutes alleged “crimes committed against the company,” according to their contract. Coming to a courtroom near you! quote:Funding deals allowing insurance companies to finance the costs of fraud investigations have blossomed around the nation in recent decades as lawmakers look for ways to help cash-strapped prosecutors pursue complex crimes that ultimately cause premiums to rise for everyone.
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e_angst posted:This is an insanely massive story, and it just goes to show how hosed up things are in Texas that basically no one knows about it after it broke. The degree to which fellow Texans don't give a poo poo about state news is depressing. It just ran in a newspaper I read, so the print embargo may have only now ended on it. It's possible it'll pick up play now that print and TV are allowed to use it.
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Norwegians use "Texas" as slang for "crazy."
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Oct 21, 2015 07:59
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So no evidence backing it up, just a list of names?
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Nov 2, 2015 22:15
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zoux posted:There was also a spooky video with a computer voice that said the names. The full leak is supposed to be out on 11/5. If it's just a larger list of names without hard evidence, I doubt many media outlets will pick it up.
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Nov 2, 2015 22:20
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zoux posted:Prosecutions will occur in the county of residence claimed when they are elected. So no venue shopping, but the proposition still creates the problem of relying on the local DA to prosecute?
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Nov 4, 2015 23:18
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I dunno it sounds pretty poo poo without parsing the wording. Just toss out the venue shopping part, you're still assuming the local DA in what could be a rural part of the state has the will and means to mount a case against a powerful state figure, who they may well run the same circles as. Seems like a license to be as corrupt as you want as long as you can count on some (potentially) small-time DA to play ball.
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Nov 4, 2015 23:34
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zoux posted:Yeah and these are all problems with HB 1690, the legislation that stripped the Travis Co DA of the PIU. It has nothing to do with the residency requirement measure, they were separate unrelated bills. Ah I see, alrighty then, probably no harm in letting them move.
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Nov 4, 2015 23:41
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Houston's a lovely place to hold the Super Bowl anyway. Just rotate it between L.A., Miami and New Orleans.
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Waller County, facing a wrongful death suit in the Sandra Bland case, has employed an interesting legal strategy:quote:But the 39-page motion makes another, more explosive claim, as well: The blame for Bland’s suicide, it asserts, lies with her friends and family for not helping her secure the $515 dollars she needed to make bail.
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gently caress this statequote:About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged. 
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Nov 22, 2015 09:25
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go3 posted:Literally no one who wants soldiers carrying in public has had to spend any time around soldiers. Gonna go out on a limb and bet the rules about carrying rifles on a base are fairly tough, whereas on civilian turf it's a free for all.
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Texas is taking another step into cartoon villainy and threatening to sue the nonprofit organization that resettles Syrian refugees if they send any to Texas.
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Badger of Basra posted:Sue them for what? I've no idea. I don't think Texas has any laws against bringing refugees into the state.
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Dec 1, 2015 23:59
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Texas dropped its threat to sue over the Syrians about to be resettled here. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-aid-group-oppose-texas-efforts-block-syrian-35576388
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blue squares posted:I like that the Texas Education Certification Board has agreements with other states so that I can get the gently caress out and teach in a place like Minnesota instead Yeah Minnesota's a big step up http://www.kare11.com/story/news/education/2015/12/09/st-paul-teachers-threaten-to-strike-over-violence/77028052/
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loving Plano http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/texans-begin-nightly-smashing-windows-of-muslim-family-only-six-weeks-after-they-move-in/ quote:A Muslim family in Plano, Texas fear that they may have been targeted with a hate crime after rocks smashed through their windows at least two times in the last week.
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The attorney general renewed his attempt to block the Syrian refugees from being resettled in Texas, saying the state had some new info or some bullshit about how dangerous they are. A federal judge rejected the lawsuit. quote:AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge knocked Texas for offering "largely speculative hearsay" about extremists possibly infiltrating Syrian refugees seeking to resettle in the state, rejecting another attempt by Republican leaders to keep out families fleeing the war-torn country.
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Harris County's bail bond system sucks rear end y'allquote:"The numbers clearly tell the story: More than three-fourths of the people in Harris County Jail haven't been convicted of crime, and the majority of them are sitting in jail simply because they can't afford to get out — not because they're a threat to public safety," state Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, told the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1PzqFi5 ). "This means the indigent are more likely to be kept in jail pretrial, lose their jobs, affect their family lives, and receive harsher sentences solely because of their income status."
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The grand jury indicted the trooper in the Sandra Bland case on one count of perjury. http://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/06/indictment-sandra-bland-case/
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blue squares posted:That's it? Better than nothing, I guess... At least he might get disqualified from being police  good one
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e_angst posted:Here's one for the "Austin is so segregated" crowd... Is there a major city in the country without these problems?
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Commie NedFlanders posted:Lol Pardon me, but gently caress Texas A&M and their creepy fake army that worships a dog.
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The investigations into Planned Parenthood have yielded indictments in Texas: http://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/25/grand-jury-indicts-abortion-foes-behind-undercover/ quote:A Harris County grand jury on Monday indicted the videographers behind undercover recordings of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston and cleared the clinic of any wrongdoing. Whoops
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zoux posted:Yeah I'd make drat sure I have a designated driver at all times if I'm the Harris Co. DA. It's a frame job. Probably disgruntled Aggies.
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Aliquid posted:wait what Haha quote:“We will explore every single option that exists, whether it be persuading him to resign, trying to force him to resign, constraining his power, removing his ability to spend money or resisting any attempt for him to access data or our social media account,” Mackowiak told the Tribune. “I’m treating this as a coup and as a hostile takeover.” I hope a bunch of little Trumps spring up all over the country to piss off the GOP establishment.
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Robert Morrow is a goddamn crazy person. If that's not obvious from the Texas Tribune article, here http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2016/03/insane-new-gop-chair-in-texas-county-is.html?m=1 That loving facebook post. 25,000 people voted for this man.
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blackguy32 posted:Corpus Christi just voted to get rid of Uber. Of course people are upset. They are so starved for more businesses to be around that they never think of the long term repercussions. But I am sort of glad I left. Got way too involved in the political scene down there to the point where there are some people that I absolutely detest. I feel like you can toss blame around on both sides. The city said they could keep operating with fingerprinting. Uber played ball in Houston with those requirements, but for smaller cities they're just like "well gently caress y'all." Also the city wanted 2% of every ride, which just sounds like a shakedown. I dunno what their justification for that is. Also the City Council just appointed the 28-year-old son of Todd Hunter to an open seat, so I can see how you grew to detest the political scene.
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Texas is still imprisoning an inmate who was found innocent in 2008.
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computer parts posted:In Conroe news, Is that a leash?
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Yeah those poor poor property owners
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