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Commission Races Forward With Illegal Slots Proposal
Today the Texas Racing Commission will take testimony from citizens concerned with the agency’s impending constitutional overreach. The Commission is considering enacting a rule that would allow Texas...
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The Sarver Connection
In recent years, Texans have become more knowledgeable about how the connections between elected officials and the political consulting and lobby class can help explain those officials’ stances and...
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Wallace Hall Wins
In a symbolic vote Monday afternoon, the Texas House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, a committee headed by State Representative Dan Flynn (R–Van), chose to “Admonish” and...
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Impeachment Committee’s Chairman Has History of Deception
Before his committee backtracked and voted to Censure UT Regent Wallace Hall instead of issuing articles of impeachment on Monday, State Representative Dan Flynn sent a letter to members of the...
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TEC Stipulates to Lawlessness
In an effort to defend a suit brought by Empower Texans President Michael Quinn Sullivan under the Texas Open Meetings Act, the Texas Ethics Commission has doubled down on their lawless behavior. Late...
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Charles Perry Successfully Completes 51-County Tour
At a Town Hall meeting Tuesday evening at West Texas College, State Representative Charles Perry shook hands with voters and local leaders from the surrounding community and talked about his vision for...
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Straus Appointments Discredit Ethics Committee Before It Begins
House Speaker Joe Straus used a Friday press release to bury the news about his appointments to a joint interim committee that will review state campaign finance (so-called “ethics”) laws. The laws,...
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Will Arrington flip-flop on the Monorail, too?
Earlier this year, the Lubbock business establishment ran a candidate against Rep. Charles Perry in the Republican primary because he refused to accommodate their plan to give taxpayers the highest...
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Sometimes You Have to Read the Opinion
Evoking the same reaction as the obituary which caused Mark Twain to infamously declare that the reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated, the liberal establishment rag “Quorum Report”...
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“Ethics” Committee Fails to Meet
More than two months ago we reported on House Speaker Joe Straus’s appointment of an array of discredited members to the “Select Interim Committee to Study Ethics Laws.” The committee was created by...
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Democratic Operative Sets up Shop to Defend TEC
Recently, former Republican Party official Mark McCaig announced his defense of IRS-style attacks on conservatives. An employee of Democratic super funder Steve Mostyn, McCaig has been the public face...
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An End to Government by Sleight of Hand
The contrasting words and actions of two establishment moderates and two rising conservative stars surrounding Monday’s meeting of the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) perfectly summed up our current...
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Speech Regulation at the Eleventh Hour
During the most recent legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill – SB 1773 – requiring a joint committee of senators and state representatives to examine our state’s so-called ethics laws and...
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How Straus Secretly Killed Campus Carry
In Austin, as it is in Washington, DC, there is an overriding, cynical culture that suggests campaign promises are merely a tool one uses to get elected, to be tossed aside at the first convenience....
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Straus Leadership Team Too Far Left for Wendy Davis Consultants
Recently the Austin media published internal campaign memos from the Wendy Davis campaign depicting the dysfunction amongst Davis’s campaign staff leading up to her historic loss. In a January 2014...
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An Ideology of Elitism
The United States of America is unique in human history for its founders’ experiment in self-government – the belief that educated people did not require rulers to order their lives but were capable of...
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Straus Not Always Silent on Issue of Record Vote
Several weeks ago, Speaker candidate Rep. Scott Turner penned a letter to State Rep. Charlie Geren and House Speaker Joe Straus, calling on them to end their divisive rhetoric about a roll call vote...
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Protect Power or Serve the People
Close allies of Texas House Speaker Joe Straus were rejected by Republican primary voters last March, and his Democratic allies were routed in their efforts to “turn Texas purple” in November. Yet...
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Medicaid Expansion: More Fraud, or More Corruption
Last month, Austin was rocked by the latest in a slew of scandals suggesting widespread corruption in state government. Health and Human Services Commission Chief Counsel Jack Stick resigned after...
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Straus Happened
Since the grow-government establishment in Austin cannot win when they take their case to the voters, as witnessed by this year's elections, they must rely on deception and strategic power plays to...
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