by Tony McDonald | Aug. 10, 2017 | State, Uncategorized
House leadership has been forced to back down after proposing a tactic that would have blocked all property tax reform and relief amendments. Their capitulation to grassroots opposition signals that House leadership may have fewer than 20 Republican supporters. On...
by Cary Cheshire | Aug. 10, 2017 | State
Conservatives will get a meeting of the House Republican Caucus in which they can advance proposals to reform the process by which a House Speaker is chosen, but it won’t have any impact on the current special session. A full week after fourteen conservative...
by Erin Anderson | Aug. 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Republican lawmakers across Texas who are failing to represent their conservative constituents in Austin continue to draw primary challengers. In East Texas’ House District 11, Republican voters will have at least two choices in the March 2018 primary: an incumbent...
by Erin Anderson | Aug. 8, 2017 | Local
A growing number of Texas Republicans are unhappy with state House leadership – or lack thereof – and they’re calling on legislators to make a change. Collin County’s Republican Party is the latest of many county parties around the state to pass a resolution...
by Cary Cheshire | Aug. 8, 2017 | State, Uncategorized
Attempts to raid the Rainy Day Fund fell short last week after conservative Texas House lawmakers outmaneuvered Speaker Joe Straus and his allies. Authored by liberal Republican State Rep. Sarah Davis of West University Place, House Bill 25, as written, was a bad bill...
by 1836 Studios | Aug. 8, 2017 | Texas Scorecard Video
by Cary Cheshire | Aug. 8, 2017 | State
Texas pastors could find themselves embroiled in another legal battle after government bureaucrats moved to prevent them from engaging in free speech. On Monday, the State Preservation Board rejected a request by the Texas Pastor Council to display signs with...
by Austin Goss | Aug. 8, 2017 | Local
Before U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz can campaign against a Democrat in the general election he will have to beat another one who has weaseled his way into the Republican primary. Stefano de Stefano, a Houston attorney, has announced his intent to challenge Cruz in the...
by Charles Blain | Aug. 7, 2017 | Local
A year and a half into Sylvester Turner’s tenure as mayor, he ranks near the top of the list for mayoral salaries across the country. Houston’s mayor comes in third, making slightly less than the mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles. According to a study by...
by Ross Kecseg | Aug. 7, 2017 | State
Republican lawmakers whose voting records betray their conservative campaign push-cards are frustrating to taxpaying constituents. But most Texans are unaware that state lawmakers are allowed to change their votes—after the fact—allowing them to mislead the public by...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Aug. 7, 2017 | Commentary
After delaying the release of the 2017 Fiscal Responsibility Index to account for issues included in the current special session, we will release lawmaker ratings the week of August 20. We hope they complete the agenda set out by the governor – #PassThemAll!...
by Greg Harrison | Aug. 6, 2017 | Citizen Profiles, Life
“The first fight I ever got into was when someone told me I was voting for Stevenson,” says Ray Myers, a highly engaged conservative activist. “‘I like Ike!’ I responded – and the fight was on!” Myers was six years old at the time – and while he’s (hopefully) not...
by Cary Cheshire | Aug. 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
In keeping with their plan to obstruct Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda by wasting time, Texas House leadership wrote another hot check to schools that won’t pass the Texas Legislature. On Friday the Texas House approved House Bill 21, a rehashing of an...
by Miriam Cepeda | Aug. 4, 2017 | Local
Hidalgo County Republicans are the latest on the long list of party activists calling for the removal of Texas House Speaker Joe Straus – and the first in the Rio Grande Valley. The dissatisfaction amongst Republicans has exacerbated under Straus’ obstruction of their...
by Ross Kecseg | Aug. 4, 2017 | Local
A District Attorney in a rural East Texas county is under scrutiny for sanctioning an unlawful traffic-ticket operation. Not only has the DA refused to investigate any wrongdoing by county officials, the two former commissioners who opposed the scheme are now the...
by Charles Blain | Aug. 4, 2017 | State, Uncategorized
One state representative is saying that he won’t sign on as a co-author of a bill protecting the privacy of women and girls in bathrooms and changing facilities, out of fear of retaliation by House leadership against first responders. State Rep. Kevin Roberts...
by Cary Cheshire | Aug. 3, 2017 | State
When Gov. Greg Abbott called a special session of the Texas Legislature, one of the first items he added to lawmakers’ agenda was the passage of serious, substantive property tax reform to empower taxpayers to exercise greater say over tax increases. Lt. Gov. Dan...
by Charles Blain | Aug. 3, 2017 | Local
After the backlash over Houston Community College Trustee Chris Oliver’s bribery indictment, the college has hired counsel for an internal review of their procurement process. However, one of the co-counsel is a political donor to another board trustee, leading some...
by Cary Cheshire | Aug. 3, 2017 | State
Conservative lawmakers in the Texas House are calling for Republicans to choose the House Speaker in the GOP caucus, free from Democrat influence. On Thursday the conservative Texas Freedom Caucus sent a letter to House Republican Caucus Chairman Tan Parker (Flower...
by Erin Anderson | Aug. 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
A North Texas Republican state lawmaker has drawn a primary challenger. Brent Lawson announced Monday that he is running for Texas State Representative in District 62 against incumbent Larry Phillips of Sherman. Lawson accuses Phillips of becoming more responsive to...
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