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May 27, 2017 6:32 PM
HK: Was economic development the major casualty of this session?
Record low unemployment yet relatively flat sales tax could be a canary in the coal mine
Since
this observer first started covering the Texas Legislature in 1989, following
the worst economic crash since the Great Depression, “economic
development” has been the mantra that drove the Capitol even when Democrats
controlled state government.
This
session is different however, exuding a cockiness if not a downright sense of
entitlement that everyone wants to move their business to Texas. What is
different this time is that Lt. Governor Dan
Patrick has some of the best political antenna for GOP primary voters and
has more than any other Republican been responsible for moving the epicenter of
the party out of the board room and into the church.
In
fact, it is one of the reasons that the belief he could challenge Governor Greg Abbott persists, denials notwithstanding.
By Harvey Kronberg
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