Posted on 05/19/2014 6:12:24 PM PDT by cotton1706
The Texas Tribune’s Reeve Hamilton broke word this morning that state Sen. Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) is stepping down to become the next chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. A special election will be called to fill out Duncan’s term, which ends in 2016.
Duncan, a veteran of the Texas Senate, was no liberal. But he was more moderate than many of his colleagues in the Senate GOP caucus, and he was seen as a force for stability by Senate watchers. In 2013, Texas Monthly named him one of the session’s best legislators—the sixth time it had done so. The magazine raved about his “credibility, calm, and collegiality.” In 2009, it stipulated that “there was hardly an issue—the budget, eminent domain, health care reform, college tuition—that wasn’t improved by his intellectual rigor and deft touch as a mediator.”
Now he’s leaving—and if current trends hold, he may well be replaced by a tea party fire-breather for a 2015 session that will be seriously deficient in “credibility, calm, and collegiality.” Here’s another way to think about that: The Rice University political scientist Mark P. Jones created an ideological pecking order of the Texas Senate after last session. He compared votes and identified the most liberal (relatively speaking) and conservative senators.
There were 19 GOP senators last session. Of the six most moderate, only three will be left next session. It’s possible that there will be only two. Duncan is leaving, and state Sen. Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) already left, each to take a university job. State Sen. John Carona, the most moderate according to Jones’ standard, lost a re-election bid.
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Moderates wear pink boxer shorts with bunnies, kitties, and unicorns.
They were listening to the wrong jokers from up north then. The constitution of MA was written by John Adams himself, and he always recommended a strong executive, checked by the other powers of course.
/johnny
Adios. Texas Tech has a problem. We Don’t like these weenies. and we stop giving. We are legion.
If Texas keeps going more conservative, they will become so prosperous they might buy California and sell it to Mexico.
No such thing as a “moderate”.
Don’t let the door hit’cha in the rear end on the way out.
No. Moderate is simply a false narrative pushed by the Left to goad Republicans into giving up their principles. It creates a fabricated political plain in which that the "middle" (i.e. liberalism) is mainstream and that Republicans need to be in order to appeal to voters and win. Of course, nothing is said of Democrats who remain true to their liberal philosophy.
The fact that Republicans keep falling for this crap, and then scratches their heads and wonder why they still lose election, is beyond me.
If Texas Monthly praised him.....
>>Isn’t moderate just another word for RINO?<<
Votes
Always
Government
INterests
Only
VAGINO...
Aka, his willingness to be rolled by Democrats.
Odd how nobody ever mentions that if conservatives get the majority in the Texas Senate, it would be every bit as "stable", if not more so.
You have to get the last word changed to more accurately describe them.
>>You have to get the last word changed to more accurately describe them.<<
Oh, yeah, I thought about “Anytime.” But nowadays everything is something something “-O”
Thus VAGINO...
From your fingers to God’s eyes!
The US Congress was in full blown punishment/payback mode. Especially due to Lincoln's death.
Ben Butler was an early taste of what was ahead if the Confederacy fell...
We had a Governor here in TX many moons ago (Ferguson) who was caught selling pardons.
The Governor hasn’t had the power since.
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