The conservative push in Texas Legislature

 Karen Townsend:

Texas Republican lawmakers are moving forward with a conservative agenda and Governor Abbott took a moment Saturday to celebrate that. Abbott tweeted out a list of conservative legislative victories achieved in the Texas House of Representatives over the span of 48 hours. It’s enough to make any Republican governor up for re-election proud.

A list of six bills includes issues like election integrity, ending homeless camps across the state, improving standardized testing requirements, a heartbeat law to protect unborn babies, penalizing cities that defund police, and penalizing protesters who block roadways. All of these are hot-button issues in the state and most have been on the top of Abbott’s list of priorities.

In 48 hours the Texas House voted to:
* Defund cities that defund police
* Ban abortion at detection of heartbeat
* Slash STAAR test requirements
* Ban homeless camping statewide
* Penalize protestors blocking roads
* Ensure election integrity- easy to vote, hard to cheat

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I know the Texas legislature is on the right track because the usual liberal columnists are grousing about it and the fact that it all but assures Abbott’s re-election chances if he decides to pursue another term as governor. There is some buzz that he may decide to run for president, though if I had to bet, it’d be that he chooses to run for governor again. Maybe in 2028, he’ll run for president. There is plenty of time between now and the Republican primaries for 2024 so anything can happen. One columnist described it as “the Greg Abbott Protection Session.” He had to admit, though, that the election integrity legislation doesn’t crack down as hard as it was originally intended to do, especially in Harris County (Houston) where elected officials blatantly disregarded election law in order to use the pandemic as a reason to skirt procedures. Nothing will stop the Democrat trope that Republicans are denying access to voting for black and brown voters.

Even on Abbott’s performance during the pandemic, only a small percentage of Republican voters are disgruntled.

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Besides the legislation supporting the police and dealing with election integrity, the one bill that caught my attention is the one that addresses protesters blocking public roads. Especially with protests in the streets so regularly, it is important that innocent bystanders or drivers not get caught up in potentially violent situations. It’s a public safety issue as emergency vehicles become trapped with motorists at intersections. A video that went viral yesterday with a trending hashtag of #Plano shows a BLM protest in Plano, Texas (a suburban city outside of Dallas) where a large intersection was blocked. One man got out of his vehicle and confronted the protesters.

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There is more.

It is disappointing to see the liberal takeover of Harris County.  They are likely to kill the golden goose that was mainly developed by Republicans in the last 50 years.  What Democrats in Harris County have done is make it easier for them to cheat.

The penalties for protestors blocking the road are sorely needed.  It has become one of the favorite tactics of the left and particularly BLM.  It has been used in Austin and recently in North Texas.  The defund the police craziness appears to be mostly limited to Austin which has been run by liberals since the 18-year-olds were given the vote.  There appears to be some limit to their craziness as voters strongly rejected homeless camping in the parks and under overpasses.

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