Posted on 12/14/2021 6:27:07 PM PST by cotton1706
More than two dozen members of the Texas Legislature are retiring or running for a different seat next year, creating a slew of vacancies that could push both chambers to become redder and more polarized by the time lawmakers reconvene in 2023.
Many of the outgoing members are center-right or establishment politicians with years of experience, opening up seats for younger and more ideologically extreme replacements. In many cases, their districts were redrawn to strengthen the GOP’s hold on the Legislature, eliminating all but a few of the battleground contests that tend to attract more moderate candidates.
Those changes, paired with new political maps that leave little opening for Democrats to gain ground in November, have laid the groundwork for an even more conservative Legislature, even as Republicans toast the 2021 legislative session as the most conservative in the state’s history.
(Excerpt) Read more at houstonchronicle.com ...
Make it redder....
And more polarized.
Redder.. more polarized.
I think the author isn’t happy about this prospect.
Is that the best way to describe the number 31?
From the article: “He’s not as conservative, obviously, as (Lt. Gov.) Dan Patrick, but nonetheless more conservative”
After Dan Patrick’s shameful and abortive effort to derail Constitutional Carry in the past session by crying that he didn’t think there was support for it plus his history of quietly doing the same in the past, Dan Patrick clearly is not conservative *enough*.
Kick all Federal law enforcement agents out of the state.
I want it so polarized that the liberals leave for bluer pastures
They have to elect better Republicans for it to make much difference.
“There will be many a legislative chamber remade after next November.”
If we’re still a Republic by then.
I would go with ALMOST THREE DOZEN but I am not a leftist trying to minimize the potential damage.
It’s rare that people move INTO high tax states.
I don’t know much about their state reps, but of the ones they send to Washington, there are only a couple good ones.
Gohmert and one other whose name escapes me.
Eyepatch McCain had his profile scrubbed from Klaus Schwab’s website trying to hide his globalist ties.
The Chronicle is a liberal rag, not in tune with what motivates Texas conservatives. I’d like to believe the Chronicle, but it doesn’t make any sense. In general what state in-parties try to do during redistricting is to gain seats for the in-party. This means forming more districts with razor thin in-party representation, and fewer districts with overwhelming majority support for out-party candidates ...just the opposite of the Chronicle’s claim.
For Texas conservatives the adding-seats strategy would tend to add moderates. But that would take away the Chronicle’s martyrdom claim.
“Polarized” = Not Liberals.
Good!
Ping.
Handwriting, meet wall.
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That goes for government at every level.
Heart warming story from the Chron!
Most of the headlines i have seen about texas here are about blue state policies and blue state migration. Texas will become nc first, then true blue a few years later.
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