i think tarrant county gop endorsed candidates went like 0/11 in local elections last month. french is an attention seeking moron.
I guess this is minor in the grand scheme, but I just cannot fathom pandering to strangers with racist/hateful shit about a colleague and then having to work with them in person. What a tremendous piece of shit.
He doesn’t have to work with wu. He’s an unemployed tartan county GOP chairman. He tweets from his moms basement and endorses candidates who just as insane as he is and they all lose
This is depressing Business//Chris Tomlinson Dan Patrick goes over the top on THC and makes a major mistake in Texas Legislature’s final week The THC ban is not the only legislation where Patrick tries to impose his warped values on Texans. By Chris Tomlinson,ColumnistJune 3, 2025 Spoiler: ICYMI Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick displayed his power and hypocrisy during the 89th Texas Legislature, and signs he’s beginning to slip. Patrick exceeded himself at a press conference to convince Gov. Greg Abbott to sign a ban on legal THC, the active ingredient in cannabis that makes you high. He lost his temper with my colleague Jeremy Wallace for asking, Why not treat THC like alcohol? “Are you crazy?” Patrick replied, flailing to justify his desire to roll back access to gummies and beverages, which have become an $8 billion Texas industry that employs 53,000 people. “We don’t want anybody buying anything off the shelf that could kill them or ruin their mental state for the rest of their lives.” Lieutenant governor, do you know what Texans can buy off the shelf that kills more children than anything else? Guns. Gunshot wounds are the leading cause of death among children. Guns kill more children than THC products by several orders of magnitude. Thanks to Patrick, though, adults can buy guns off the shelf and carry them concealed or openly in Texas without training, licensing or in some cases, a background check. Parents whose children died in multiple school and church shootings across the state have begged Patrick to place common-sense restrictions on guns. He has rejected all of those pleas. Yet when it comes to THC, the lite guv says a 22-year-old who walked in front of a train while stoned is tragic enough to justify denying millions of people the right to accessible pain relief. Patrick told so many lies during his press conference that I don’t have enough time to rebut them all. For that, read my colleague Sam Warren’s story. The THC ban is not the only legislation where Patrick tries to impose his warped values on Texans. Christian nationalists have given him millions to implement their agenda, and he’s used that money to defeat Republican senators who won’t toe his line. As the Senate’s presiding officer, Patrick decides which bills get a vote. Any senator who wants a bill passed must kiss Patrick’s ring, Republican or Democrat. In the 2024 election, Patrick used his $33 million campaign chest to defeat Republican critics in the House and promote candidates who pledged fealty. The majority of House members now have served two terms or less. This year, they passed some of the most oppressive bills in Texas history. Patrick and his culture warriors are determined to deny transgender people their fundamental rights. House Bill 229 requires officials to assign a person’s gender on public records based on their sex organs at birth. People who undergo gender reassignment will no longer be able to change their identification cards. They also passed a bill to make gender care almost impossible to obtain in Texas, effectively denying the rights of 100,000 Texans to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Every time I see Patrick, he reminds me more of my East Texas grandmother, who lived on Lake Palestine and attended West Lake Baptist Church. Every year, she’d become a little more fundamentalist and a little more detached from reality. Patrick’s intolerance for debate on the Senate floor is increasingly evident. Instead of politely answering critics, as he once did, he now loses his temper and calls them crazy and stupid. At the height of his powers, Patrick could swing the gavel with a clear mastery of parliamentary procedure. This session, he was dependent on assistants and stand-ins to keep up. Last week, he made a rookie mistake that cost Republicans. Instead of recessing the Senate on Wednesday night, he adjourned, Scott Braddock first reported for the Quorum Report newsletter. Several Republican bills were pending: House Bill 796 would have allowed the Legislature to disregard federal laws if a majority determined they were unconstitutional. House Bill 1523 would have stopped Austin from storing water underground in Bastrop County. House Bill 5294 would have prohibited medical schools from considering race or nationality in admissions. House Bill 3225 would have allowed more book bans in municipal libraries. And House Concurrent Resolution 59 would have made April “Promise Month,” when Christians would pray especially hard. By adjourning instead of recessing, Patrick made it impossible to pass them without a four-fifths vote. Democrats delighted in killing those bills. In the immortal words of former Gov. Rick Perry: “Oops.” Conservatives should be proud that Patrick accomplished many of their goals, but question if he should run again. The rest of us Texans should be happy he’s not as sharp as he once was. Otherwise, this session would have been much, much worse. Award-winning opinion writer Chris Tomlinson writes commentary about money, politics and life in Texas. Sign up for his “Tomlinson’s Take” newsletter at houstonchronicle.com/tomlinsonnewsletter or expressnews.com/tomlinsonnewsletter.
I haven’t really seen or talked to anyone who supports this seems like a real political blunder by Patrick
Paxton at the top of the midterm ticket with Abbott right below him having to own the THC ban is going to have an effect on down ballot republicans
Hope so. Any idea where the winds are currently blowing on a veto? Feels like the tcup expansion gave some wiggle room to let it go through, but the media has been crushing patrick over his ridiculous press conference. That can't be helping his case.
My understanding is that the bresnans think he will veto but still 2.5 weeks to go and Abbott campaign treasurer is former ceo of silver eagle distributors so…. Could go either way
With controversial bills like this don’t they usually get the governors blessing before putting it out there so aggressively?
pretty sure it is about both grandstanding for constituents but mainly making good on pledges to big donors.
I've always viewed patrick as having more power than abbott. This is one time when he could really flex, but I don't really buy that he will until proven otherwise
There will be no repercussions. Patrick will not run for reelection then die in like two years, creighton or some other freak will take his place, Paxton will be the next Senator, and Middleton or someone will follow Abbott as governor.
My gummy stash has recently been cut in half as I discovered I sleep 70% better when taking two instead of one
If we play into the fantasy that a Democrat can win a statewide race here, would we rather have him in the Senate or the Governor's office?
If he had the ability to block all of the dumb shit Republicans wanted to do next session, I'd go governor. If they had the numbers to override vetos, I'd probably go senate
Governor over senator by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000+ A dem being able to veto bullshit bills would fucking rule
Big day for texan republicans. they are holding a ceremony tonight to reminisce about their favorite events Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Every Texan, including our families, our neighbors, and every student and educator in our schools deserves safety from gun violence. Despite our legislature’s passage of harmful gun bills, we must stand united to create a safer Texas. #txlege— Jessica González (@jessicafortexas.bsky.social) 2025-06-06T16:59:12.370Z
She has been near the top of the charts for me as most attractive female on the planet for decades now. Beautiful.
Plano Texas needs to be studied by urban planners and analyzed how it's possibly the worst use of land every imagined. I'm at a corp HQ and want coffee. Oh there are 17 corporate campus, but absolutely zero coffee shops or restaurants. 1mi is the closest store or restaurant to grab lunch. I'm in a literal good desert surrounded by office buildings and parking lots
would you think about the oil companies for a gosh darn second before posting such nonsense in the Texas thread please and thank you.
I remember when I was like an innocent sophomore in high school I went to a party in Plano with a bunch of seniors and I was like damn these people are feral. But also love bone thugs just as much as I do.
Holy crap. After 52 years and 25 "10 Best and 10 Worst Legislators" end-of-session features -- a listing I've read with gusto after every sine die -- Texas Monthly has called it quits. The lege is too irredeemably broken for that, writes @hooks.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...— John Schwartz (@jswatz.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T18:22:40.270Z
enjoyed that. lucky that i'm repped by johnson. if little doesn't run for AG, i'm cutting him a check too for killing the tort reform shit. article naming harrison winning cockroach of the year was written before the leg even started.
a Republican hasn’t been … or ever will be Mayor of San Antonio… it just isn't happening… as much as I hate Abbott this isn’t a L for him… its how it always has been and will be forever and ever