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September 15, 2024 7:30 PM
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September 13, 2024 8:42 PM
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September 13, 2024 1:34 PM
Power players, lobby moves, staffer moves, and more
The
first and perhaps only presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala
Harris is now in the rearview mirror and some Texas-centric issues were
front and center for much of it. Immigration, abortion, and oil and gas production
were hotly debated by the major party nominees, even if the candidates’
comments on fracking were meant more for Pittsburgh than the Permian. Jeremy
Wallace and I will break it all down for you on the latest edition of the Texas
Take Podcast, which will drop here
later today.
Meantime,
some power players around here are dropping career news in the pages of Quorum
Report today.
You
know the drill: The most efficient and effective way to inform the Texas
Capitol community about where you’ve landed on the board is to send the
scoop to ksbraddock@gmail.com and use
POTM in the subject line. Send it whenever you like and
it’ll be in the next edition of People on the Move published on
Fridays.
Here’s
the latest POTM:
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By Scott Braddock
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September 12, 2024 4:24 PM
The GOP commissioners both bucked Judge O’Hare in a bipartisan vote to keep voting locations in areas where students may turn out in big numbers in November
FORT WORTH
– Tarrant County Commissioners Court defied County Judge Tim
O’Hare today after Commissioners Manny Ramirez and Gary Fickes
voted with Democrats Alissa Simmons and Roy Brooks to include
college campuses as early voting sites among the 51 voting locations.
The
special meeting came after commissioners failed to pass on a 2-2 vote on the
list of 50 proposed sites last week. Ramirez was not present at that meeting.
O’Hare was
criticized for scheduling today’s special meeting while Simmons and Brooks were
out of town. Ultimately Simmons and Brooks, who were in Washington, D.C. for an
event by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, attended
virtually.
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By James Russell
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September 10, 2024 6:00 PM
An otherwise routine hearing took quite a turn with an apparent hacking of the zoom feed, images of cats smoking joints, racist messages, and videos of what looked like Russian military exercises
Editor’s
note: Chair Hefner released a statement later in the day. The story is updated
to include it – SB
What
seemed like an otherwise routine field hearing of the Texas House
panel on foreign threats led by Chairman Cole Hefner ended Tuesday
afternoon with a chaotic few minutes on the zoom live stream that some in the
lobby and others were watching around the state.
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By Scott Braddock
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September 10, 2024 5:21 PM
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation says a lack of affordable, high-quality childcare options in Texas results in an estimated loss of $9.4 billion per year.
Childcare
isn’t just babysitting. It’s a workforce issue. And wait lists, low subsidies,
and a lack of access are hurting Texans.
That’s
what witnesses told the Texas House International Relations &
Economic Development Committee this afternoon. Addressing the state’s childcare
shortage should be a priority next session, they argued.
Speaker of
the House Dade Phelan and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested the same
thing as well when they both asked committees to study childcare access in
their interim charges. It’s the first time advocates
recall that a Speaker and the Lt. Governor issued interim charges simultaneously
on the issue.
And there’s
good reason for the sense of urgency.
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By James Russell
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September 10, 2024 12:05 PM
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September 10, 2024 10:24 AM
The
list is here via the Office of the Lt. Governor.
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September 9, 2024 9:00 PM
Sustaining his tradition of punishing the innocent, the Governor gave Democrats an additional organizing principle by denying Texas students and teachers a promised $6 billion in funding because the legislature would not endorse what some have called a private school coupon system for the wealthy. But the Republican dysfunction only starts there
After more than three decades of covering the Texas Legislature,
it is time to definitively declare that the inmates have taken over the asylum.
The mendacity and corruption in modern Texas governance is breathtaking. The
dysfunction is largely based in the open warfare between The Big Three,
along with Ken Paxton contributing his best from the sidelines. The
enmity and bad faith among GOP leaders is simply unprecedented.
Cataloging the dysfunction and wargaming it for the next session is daunting.
Nevertheless, it is all the political community can talk
about as we all wait to see the outcome of the Cruz-Allred race
and how the numbers will shake out in the Texas House. Also, our
job at Quorum Report is first and foremost to offer an accurate
assessment of the political and legislative landscape.
With all that in mind, let’s enumerate the dysfunction.
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September 9, 2024 7:24 PM
If that's the case, Perry's decision to join Team Phelan would have been preceded by a frank conversation with Patrick about the Lt. Gov. going too far in tearing down the Texas GOP from within. QR Editor Scott Braddock and KFYO radio host Chad Hasty discussed it in the audio below
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September 9, 2024 2:55 PM
Our friends at the foundation named Ellen Arnold this year’s Legacy Award recipient, Caitlin Flanders as the Rising Star winner, and Amber Hausenfluck was named Mentor of the Year
The
full announcement
is here. Congrats to the winners.
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September 9, 2024 12:05 PM
That's after Alex Mealer had been named earlier
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September 9, 2024 12:00 PM
Sally Duval appears smoking both a joint and a bong in the ad and says it's "high time" for the state to take a new direction on this
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