I'll grant you that there are some Democrats here in Texas who are generally more conservative than some of the big-city RINOs who are elected. However, there should be enough conservatives to ensure committee chairmanship to allow favorable returns on bills submitted to that committee.
Where the rubber meets the road, tell me this: does David Dewhurst support or in-State tuition for illegal aliens? I've seen, read, and heard both sides, but I would really like a straight answer as to this and to why, if he was in favor of stopping in-State tuition assistance to illegal aliens, he sent the bill to a committee which was obviously biased against stopping such tuition.
BlueLancer, Dewhurst IS one of the best conservatives we have had in years in Texas.
I confess, I would have to more research to answer directly why any particular bill may have been sent to some particular committee, or why a favorable return was not reached on any particular bill. But that goes to the nature of pulling one particular item like that out of a lifelong conservative’s history and using it to attack him and try to make that one item or result you did not like be a raeson to vote for the guy with NO record and who has nothing but campaign promises and his ability as a lawyer to offer.
Even the way you frame your question “ does David Dewhurst support or in-State tuition for illegal aliens?” shows you have bought into Cruz attack strategy, because David Dewhurst has never favored in-state tuition for illegal aliens. The Federal Government forces the state of Texas and you as a taxpayer to educate the children of illegal aliens all the way through to graduation from our public high schools. Then what? Well, that is the question the Feds have dumped in our lap to solve! Dewhurst, or Perry, or any of the State Senators or Representatives almost all of whom voted to allow them in-state rates for college tuitiion were not supporting in-state college tuition rates for illegal allens themselves as we commonly define illegal aliens. I hope you can make this distinction. But, here is part of what I posted to a dude, further trying to explain that what went down in the state government while wrestling with this problem NOT OF ITS OWN MAKING
This is an attack on Dewhurst, an Alinsky type of attack , that any sharp bunch of Lawyers running for public office always use to attack their conservative opponent.
Do you understand that tactic?
The Lawyers want you to think what Dewhurst did in wrestling with the “Dream Act” promlem is proof of the case they are trying to make that Dewhurst loves the illegal alens and hates the good ol’ Texas taxpayers, while in reality everything in David Dewhurst’s life and career as Lt. Governor of the State of Texas proves that he is a conservative.
Everything about Cruz and his life so far show that he is much more likely to have liberal tendencies than Dewhurst.
And I know that you know Cruz is just another Harvard Lawyer with the straight-out Goldman-Sach connection trying to pull off starting his political career with a US Senate seat! Its audacious and incredible when you think about it!
This guy, who has spent most of his adult life in Massechusetts and Washington actually is trying to convince us that Lt. Gov. Dewhurst in trying to work with the legislature in how to make the best of a huge problem the Federal Government has dumped on the Sate by deliberately not enforcing Federal Immigration Law, is now trying to convince us that this proves we should vote for him? I’m not buying it!
Why the heck didn’t Cruz solve the problem when he was Solicitor General? Tell me, what is the Cruz-stated position on the people who have attended the Public School System of the State of Texas and graduated and otherwise qualify to attend the State University System?
Because Cruz has no record, except for arguing cases on behalf of his bosses taking the positions he was hired to take, Cruz is practically bulletproof from this type of attack himself!
I know you are finding it hard to wrap your head around this, but Dewhurst is the Conservative, Cruz is the liberal insider in this primary election!