The Texas legislature has been held hostage by Dewhurst and his liberal republicans for too long.
/johnny
Did you see this paragraph?? I don’t know what’s the deal with this two-thirds rule but no democrats should have committee chairs in a body controlled by republicans.
“If he wins next week’s lieutenant governor runoff, Dan Patrick has talked about ending the senate’s two-thirds rule and stripping all committee chairmanships from Democrats, which would turn the chamber, effectively, into his own private club. As if that weren’t enough, the bottom third of Jones’ chart—the small group of plugged-in, moderate Republicans—is fading away. In 2011, Texas Monthly wrote that “legislatures can’t function without members like Robert Duncan.” It looks like we’ll soon find out if that’s true.”