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May 17, 2022 5:59 PM
Investments by the speaker, a new ultra-conservative PAC joins the fray, the challenger for RRC gets a big boost, and statewide Democratic runoffs come down to the wire
The political money is flowing and a new
ultra conservative PAC has joined the fray along with Defend Texas
Liberty PAC in causing a ruckus in primaries.
Conservative Action of Texas, based in
Fort Worth, is solely funded by millionaire businessman Jim Moyer of
Fairmont in Sabine County. More on him and the new entrant into primary
politics later.
First, the statewide races.
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May 17, 2022 5:43 PM
The
update from KXAN reporter Maggie Glynn:
On Tuesday, the Electric
Reliability Council of Texas, alongside the Public Utility
Commission of Texas, gave an overview of how the state’s power grid is
projecting to fare this summer, in addition to updating the public on current
grid conditions after asking Texans to conserve power over the weekend. Both
PUC Commissioner Peter Lake and ERCOT CEO Brad Jones stated they
are confident with how our grid is faring heading into the summer, even with
new record demand expected to be set.
Lake said that’s in part
due to the reforms set in motion by lawmakers over the last year, in addition
to added generation capacity to the grid.
“We’ll have 7,000
megawatts of solar condition, we’ll have another two to 3,000 megawatts of wind
generation, and about 1,000 megawatts of natural gas generation. So you can see it’s coming from a broad spectrum, but much
of that additional generation is from the renewable side,” Jones explained.
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May 17, 2022 3:58 PM
The polling shows the opposition to vouchers remains stout in rural Texas
The polling memo is here.
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May 16, 2022 4:13 PM
The latest
from CBS News:
Washington — The Supreme
Court on Monday invalidated a provision of federal campaign finance law
capping the amount of money a candidate can be repaid for personal loans made
to their campaign, siding with GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in his
challenge to the restriction. The 6-3 ruling from the court's conservative
majority is the latest in a string of decisions that have unraveled campaign
finance limits under the First Amendment. This latest legal fight was mounted
by Cruz, who loaned his 2018 reelection campaign $260,000 the day before the
general election to force a challenge to the law.
Writing for the majority,
Chief Justice John Roberts said the provision at the center of the case, known
as Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate, "burdens candidates
who wish to make expenditures on behalf of their own candidacy through personal
loans," and violates the First Amendment rights of candidates and their
campaigns to engage in political speech.
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May 14, 2022 3:29 PM
It was the Senate’s presiding officer who insisted after Winter Storm Uri that Texas needs more electricity generation while the governor ignored him; now the Abbott Administration appears to be playing a deadly game of hide-the-ball with energy conservation alerts
From DFW to Houston and
from Austin down to San Antonio and The Valley, a pretty typical
Friday night played out across Texas. Restaurants, bars, and other businesses
were filled with customers likely unaware that the state’s power grid was under
stress because the heat knocked six power plants offline.
Gov. Greg Abbott met
with PUC and ERCOT leadership earlier in the day, releasing a
photo of that meeting around 2:45. It was around 2:30 that grid problems
started to arise, but ERCOT did not call for Texans to conserve electricity until
after 5pm on a Friday – precisely the worst time to attempt to communicate an
emergency message to the public.
What a politically dangerous
and potentially deadly game of hide-the-ball.
The Abbott Administration
is betting the grid will hold up and going through the motions of technically asking
Texans to conserve when almost no one is paying attention.
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May 13, 2022 12:29 PM
If it happens, it would be as soon as today; it's our understanding that Sen. Davis would ONLY do this with the blessing of Hinojosa
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May 12, 2022 5:17 PM
With early voting about to get underway in the runoffs, campaigns are stepping up their negative mail and slamming their opponents on TV as well
And the campaigns get nastier
– as is clearly God’s plan in the homestretch of a Republican runoff in Texas.
David Lowe, GOP challenger to Texas House Public Health
Chair Stephanie Klick, R-North Richland Hills, in recent days has been blasted
for having previously owned a website domain with a racy name that one could reasonable
assume had a nefarious purpose.
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May 12, 2022 5:15 PM
Meantime, former Justice Eva Guzman said she will not be endorsing in the runoff
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May 11, 2022 6:01 PM
Abbott also told radio host Chad Hasty that when it comes to concerns among homeschoolers and private schools that public dollars will eventually lead to state mandates about curriculum, that’s the kind of thing lawmakers “will have to hammer out”
After earlier this week going
further than any Texas governor has ever gone in clearly supporting a school voucher
program, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday took to the airwaves in some
rural parts of the state to make his case in places where “school choice” has traditionally
been met with the strongest opposition among Republicans.
On the Chad Hasty Radio
Show, airing in Lubbock, Abilene, and Wichita Falls, Gov. Abbott said
rural Texans may view vouchers as “irrelevant” because private and charter schools
aren’t available in those communities. Instead, parents there rely almost
exclusively on public schools. Abbott went so far as to say people in Lubbock,
for example, probably universally support their public schools.
"But what that means
is it doesn't change anything at all in the rural regions in the state of Texas,”
Abbott said of his pledge that public schools will remain “fully funded.”
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May 10, 2022 5:17 PM
Conservative challengers certainly racked up some wins, but a closer examination of the results indicates support for public school leaders in places you might not expect
FORT WORTH – Things can always get a little crazy in
Tarrant County elections.
That’s the initial, and in fairness not entirely
inaccurate, take away from Saturday’s municipal, school board, and bond
elections here. While conservatives won seats on school boards throughout the
state, the talk’s been all about the sweep of four school boards in suburban
districts in Tarrant.
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May 10, 2022 4:34 PM
They said "Danielle’s opponent, Jolanda Jones, worked with the Republican Party to take over HISD schools. Last year, Jones endorsed Republican school board candidates over our incumbent Democratic HISD trustees. Jolanda Jones cannot be trusted to protect our Democratic Party values against the Republican onslaught at this critical time."
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May 10, 2022 4:29 PM
He's "liberal", he's "woke," yada yada
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May 10, 2022 4:27 PM
They succeed Senators Nelson and Powell
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