2022 House and Senate election

mchammer said:
The point is that beta is such a douche, he is going to lose South Texas.
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That's good. But I gave up on the Republican Party after about 2014 when the Tea Party proved to be a failure.

Texans should understand the saying, "all hat and no cattle". That's the Republican Party.
 
Beta would try to ruin the energy sector, appoint freaks and woke idiots to every position be could, interfere with abortion laws, advance CRT in public schools, push to have dudes in girls locker rooms, and push for gun restrictions. Other than that, he and Abbott are about the same.
 
Mr. Deez said:
Beta would try to ruin the energy sector, appoint freaks and woke idiots to every position be could, interfere with abortion laws, advance CRT in public schools, push to have dudes in girls locker rooms, and push for gun restrictions. Other than that, he and Abbott are about the same.
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The Texas energy grid has been seriously damaged while Republicans have been in power. With a D in office the decline would be faster, but let's not kid ourselves. The decline will continue under Republicans.

Abbott already lets Democrats have important congressional positions in the Texas lege.

I'm with you on abortion and gun rights.

CRT is already in our public schools. I don't hear Abbott doing anything about it. He recently has talked with Corey DeAngelis about school choice. But multiple school choice bills have been voted down by Republicans and the margin gets wider. I don't believe the Republicans are trustworthy on education.

It's important Texans demand better from their politicians and hold them accountable when they are merely Democrat-lite or support a slow move toward Progressivism vs a fast one.
 
Isn’t DeSantis running for re-election this year? Have dems just given up? Don’t hear anything about that race.
 
mchammer said:
Isn’t DeSantis running for re-election this year? Have dems just given up? Don’t hear anything about that race.
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Charlie Crist and Nicki Fried are the main candidates in the Democratic primary. Crist will probably win the primary, but nobody expects him to seriously threaten Desantis.

Crist is an assclown. He is a former Republican governor who touts himself as a moderate who left the party because of its "extremism," but if you look at the issues, he wasn't really a moderate. He was a flip-flopper. He just moved around based on political convenience. Right now, he's a fairly liberal Democratic congressman, but given his record, I suspect the Democrats are only favoring him because he has some moderate appeal (for now) and because Nicki Fried is a bit of a weirdo. I doubt they trust him much, and frankly, they have good reason to distrust him.
 
Monahorns said:
The Texas energy grid has been seriously damaged while Republicans have been in power. With a D in office the decline would be faster, but let's not kid ourselves. The decline will continue under Republicans.
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They are massively beholden to the energy sector. In terms of policy, Republicans largely give them what they want. If things fail, it won't be because Texas Republicans weren't favorable enough to them.

Monahorns said:
Abbott already lets Democrats have important congressional positions in the Texas lege.
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Not fair to blame him. The House elects the Speaker. He chooses committee chairs. Each member gets to pick a committee based on seniority. The Speaker also gives each member at least one committee assignment. The Lieutenant Governor is elected by the people, and he appoints committees and committee chairs. The governor has no power over this.

Monahorns said:
CRT is already in our public schools. I don't hear Abbott doing anything about it. He recently has talked with Corey DeAngelis about school choice. But multiple school choice bills have been voted down by Republicans and the margin gets wider. I don't believe the Republicans are trustworthy on education.
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Two things. Abbott signed HB 3979. I'm not sure what more you want him to do. On vouchers, the Legislature has to pass the bill and send it to Abbott. He would sign it.

As someone who has followed vouchers at the Texas legislature since 1997 and had to become a bit of a legislative expert on it for my job, I can tell you that the reason it fails isn't what most people assume. Most assume that it fails for the same reason it fails in a lot of states - the legislature has a mess of left-wing legislators who have the teacher unions' balls firmly entrenched in their mouths. But left-wing legislators haven't called the shots in Texas for 20+ years, so why do they fail? They fail because they scare the on hell out of rural legislators, virtually all of whom are not only Republicans but pretty conservative and otherwise not especially favorable to teacher unions.

The reason why is that they fear what will happen to their school district funding under a voucher program. Of course, all districts worry about that sort of thing, but it's particularly big in rural areas, because the school district is usually by far the biggest employer in those areas and is a massive economic driver even for non-employees (businesses, contractors, etc.). If their funding is cut significantly, it isn't just a few crummy teachers not being retained, it's a major threat to the local economy.

Personally, I'm a huge supporter of vouchers and have been basically as long as I've known that vouchers were a thing. However, I do understand the politics here, and it's tough to overcome.
 
Mr D
Wouldn't it be more difficult financially and logistically for Charters to get up and running in rural areas? Providing transportation alone would be a huge logistical nightmare for a charter.
 
Horn6721 said:
Mr D
Wouldn't it be more difficult financially and logistically for Charters to get up and running in rural areas? Providing transportation alone would be a huge logistical nightmare for a charter.
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They don't particularly want that either. For the most part, they feel like they have a good thing going. They don't want to risk turning over their apple cart just because godless suburbanites are letting freaks into their schools and black and Mexican kids in Houston and Dallas are getting hosed by their own districts. It's not their problem.
 
Mr. Deez said:
Beta would try to ruin the energy sector, appoint freaks and woke idiots to every position be could, interfere with abortion laws, advance CRT in public schools, push to have dudes in girls locker rooms, and push for gun restrictions. Other than that, he and Abbott are about the same.
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Beta losing 41-51 in DMN poll. Probably will be a 43-57 loss for beta.
 
HornHuskerDad said:
Agree. Maybe - just maybe - this will be the end for Beto and we won't see any more of him.
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I would bet my left arm that if he quits politics, he'll end up divorced within a couple of year. No way in hell does his wife (who could do better than him) keeps his jobless *** around.
 
Remember when after he lost Senate race he took himself off alone to "find himself"?
I bet his wife hoped he was gone for good but No.
He came back like a wandering cat.
This time she needs to move with no forwarding address.
 
mb227 said:
I'm not sure he is left enough for that Clowncil...
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He wouldn't go to the most hard-left areas. He'd go to an area with lots of rich, white liberals. The phony-Hispanic-but-not-really-Hispanic thing is good for making them feel righteous about themselves.
 
mchammer said:
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There's time to right the ship, but like in 2010, there's a very good chance that we will underperform in the Senate because of our crappy candidates. Those races are harder to overcome by improving on the generic ballot. Frankly, I'll be pleased if we're still 50-50 after Election Day.
 
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