With the composition of the Texas House and Senate so strongly in the hands of the Republicans, there shouldn't have been any problem in passing these anti-sanctuary city bills and using them as clubs to bludgeon those law-breaking cities into line.
I'll again grant you that it may be nitpicking at this level, but I do firmly believe that anti-illegal immigration bills are probably the most important that have to come before the legislature: the effects of illegal immigration overarch everything else, encompassing the budget, health, welfare, transportation, jobs, and taxes. As Lieutenant Governor, he should have been better able to formulate an agenda that allowed the time to get these bills past any obstacles and onto the governor's desk for signature.
Thanks for your reply.
All I can tell you is the Lt. Governor is not all-powerful and in a special session there are priorities on the state level of business and not every item is going to get passed. The House is more of an impediment to passage of those measures you are most concerned with, and I am sure that in order to get what Lt. Gov. Dewhurst did get passed in the special session, something must had had to been conceded to get what could be actually gotten, actually done.
Politics is the art of making civilization work and nobody ever gets 100% of everything they want, and I’m not going to punish the best Lt. Gov. in decades for not getting all of what I wanted on all my particular hot-button issues. Especially, will I not put up with some trial lawyer with no record of ever having a recorded vote on anything taking potshots, shots that are extremely deceptive in nature, and misrepresenting a good conservative to try to parlay the tea-party and their naivete into a U.S. Senate seat. Cruz has not earned and does not deserve our party’s nomination for Texas U.S. Senate seat.
It’s also strange that Dewhurst assigned Senator Birdwell’s bill that would have stopped in-state tuition for illegals to liberal Democrat Zaffirini’s Committee effectively killing it. I’m not sure you can paint that any other way than Dewhurst didn’t want it to pass.