July 22, 2016 5:26 PM

Smith: How the GOP can stop fraud – quit talking

QR’s Liberal Columnist Glenn W. Smith argues that if Texas GOP officials really want to stop fraud, they should just stop talking. Federal courts twice called them out for misleading the public and the courts – on anti-abortion and Voter ID bills.

What are Texas Republicans to do? First, a federal appeals court ruled that the state’s Voter ID law discriminated against minorities. Then, their favorite son, Sen. Ted Cruz, got in an embarrassing playground slap fest with Donald Trump, who they were busy unifying behind as their presidential candidate. The world is so unfair.

To make matters worse, Trump’s daughter Ivanka said Trump supported both government-backed childcare and mandatory equal pay for women. Who knew Trump was a Secret Socialist?

These contradictions can and probably will be tossed into the GOP’s muddy waters of denial and the forgotten. The loss of the state’s Voter ID law, the nation’s most severe restriction on voting, is another matter. That was their Great Wall against change in Texas.

The entire column by Glenn W. Smith is in the R&D Department.

By Glenn W. Smith