Legislative priorities announced. I was just thinking that a little polio might toughen my kid up End Federal Overreach Ensuring that Texans have medical freedom and can give or withhold consent for any vaccine or medical treatment without coercion, are not discriminated against based on vaccine status, and are not faced with any vaccine or medical mandate by public or private entities.
Interesting watch. I'd love to ask Mark Cuban some questions about the new owner. Furthermore, she's trying to make Dallas into a sister city of Vegas with gambling legislation. The day that passes will be the kiss of death for Lake Charles and Shreveport, Louisiana.
the Oklahoma tribes wouldn’t be happy with it either. I’m sure they are lobbying against it. WinStar is a massive casino resort mile marker 1 across the border off of I-35. Another decent sized resort over in Durant off of highway 69. They get a ton of people from Texas that come to gamble.
I don't know anyone in the DFW area who gambles in Shreveport. Durant and Thackerville are both an hour away.
I’ve always wondered why Texas was content to watch probably billions in tax revenue just walk across state lines.
The running joke has always been that Tillman has a button at all the tables in his hotels and restaurants and the second it’s legal he can hit it and they’ll flip over and be blackjack tables.
I guess I forgot about Oklahoma in this equation. Shreveport/Bossier City will likely be fine because they have that massive military base there. Lake Charles is a completely different story. The Golden Nugget parking lot is usually nothing but TX license plates when I've had conferences there.
yeah if gambling ever goes statewide, and Tillman can get one near Galveston (anywhere really near Houston), Lake Charles and Coushatta will get hit hard.
Pretty sure that’s why Mattress Mack is opposed to gambling being legal in Texas. He’s in the pocket of those casinos in LA
Tillman owns the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles, so his strategy would be interesting if casinos were legal in Texas.
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Wife’s coworker knows someone at centerpoint and she asked him about her address and he said it’s likely a week for them because they’re in a spot where a transformer blew and it’s only affecting a small number of residential homes hoping our shit gets fixed sooner. Were one street off Waugh by that Whole Foods and traffic lights are out. Hopefully they aren’t cool with traffic lights being out on a street with like 25,000 drivers per day on it
Same thing essentially happened during the last ice storm up here, only our street was affected so it was not prioritized. Drove me insane
Sorry Houston bros. I have a mother in law suite available for anyone with a family that might need it. It’s just a king bed and a couch but it has a kitchen and it’s in Keller
I would say the two words that don’t belong here are “of course”, which are words that would make sense if the governor of Texas was in, of course, Texas
Abbott’s people keep posting pics of him hamming it up with Taiwanese businessmen and (nasty ass Rahm Emmanuel) with no concern for the 20% of the state currently in shambles. It’s pretty cool.
Texas leaders were slower to request federal Beryl aid than in past hurricanes Texas was quick to ask for federal aid when Hurricane Ike hit in 2008, when Hurricane Harvey struck in 2017 and again when Hurricane Hanna touched down in 2020. But that did not happen this year as Hurricane Beryl approached Houston, triggering a round of finger-pointing between the White House and Texas officials over how quickly federal supplies including food, water and generators should have been distributed. President Joe Biden told the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday that he had to personally reach out to the state's acting governor, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, for a formal request a day after the storm hit, knocking out power to more than 2 million CenterPoint Energy customers. “I’ve been trying to track down the governor to see — I don’t have any authority to do that without a specific request from the governor,” Biden said in a call. That’s not how Texas leaders have handled past hurricanes. The night before Harvey first made landfall in Texas in 2017, Abbott already had a request signed and submitted to then-President Donald Trump in anticipation of the storm coming ashore near Rockport. Days later, the storm hit Houston, dropping more than 50 inches of rain on the city. In 2020, Abbott requested a major disaster declaration from Trump before Hanna made landfall in South Texas as a Category 1 hurricane. “I submit this request in anticipation of the impacts of Hurricane Hanna, currently forecast to make landfall as a hurricane along the southern coast of Texas with continuing impacts to counties along the entire Texas coast and further inland,” Abbott said in his letter to Trump. Abbott's predecessor, Rick Perry, filed a major disaster declaration with then-President George W. Bush on Sept. 12, 2008, the day before Ike made landfall in Galveston as a Category 2 storm with 110 mph winds. Abbott's office has not said whether it started working on a federal disaster declaration request ahead of Beryl. The governor left the country on a pre-planned trip Friday, when Beryl was still over the Yucatán Peninsula and its Texas trajectory was uncertain. He put Patrick in charge and said on social media that he was monitoring the storm while completing an economic trade mission to Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. "I remain in daily contact with Texas Division of Emergency Management & local officials to ensure preparation for Hurricane Beryl," Abbott wrote Sunday on X hours before the storm hit. Patrick's office did not respond to requests for comment. Patrick told reporters Tuesday that he had first needed to see the damage before making the request. Abbott made a similar point Wednesday, telling a Bloomberg TV interviewer that the process worked "the same way that it has in every disaster." "What happens is you make an assessment of the damages that occur," he said. "Mathematically, it has to add up to a certain dollar amount to get a FEMA award, and we waited until the dollar amount was met and sought the grant from FEMA.” But neither he nor Perry waited to do assessments in the past, and a former Federal Emergency Management Agency official said major disaster declarations do not need to wait for thorough on-the-ground reviews. Since Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana in 2005, governors have routinely filed major disaster declarations even before storms make landfall to ensure federal supplies and personnel get to an area fast. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said in a statement Tuesday that FEMA was left to draft the wording of the Beryl declaration for Texas, something state officials typically do themselves. FEMA said in a statement Monday that it had emergency supplies, including 500,000 meals and 800,000 liters of water, “ready to distribute at the state’s request.” Abbott's absence during a major weather event is unusual, said Darryl Paulson, a political scientist at the University of South Florida. “It’s standard operating procedure for governors of a state in a natural disaster situation to cancel any trips they may have planned to stay in their state and handle what potentially could be a massive state emergency,” Paulson said. In 2008, when Hurricane Gustav was in the Gulf of Mexico, Perry and then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist canceled plans to attend the Republican National Convention in Minnesota even though both had spent weeks planning their trips. The storm didn't hit Texas or Florida, but because it could have, governors from all the Gulf Coast states stayed home. “The governor’s responsibility first is to the people of his state and protecting the people of his state,” Paulson said. Abbott's office did not respond to questions about his decision to continue with the trip. In an interview with Fox 7 Austin on Wednesday, Abbott said he didn't regret staying in Asia and has been able to be “fully engaged” in the state’s response. It’s “the exact same thing, really, that I would be doing if I were there in Austin, Texas,” the governor said. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...icle/greg-abbott-hurricane-beryl-19565079.php
Seems strange to still have this much trouble with the grid days after a relatively mild hurricane but I guess it's not new for Texas