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THIS WEEK:
Dan Patrick Loses by Nearly 600,000 Votes, Starts Consulting Firm
Camp County Denounces Sharia Law, Room Applauds
The Capital Grille Keeps a Dossier on a Republican Consultant
Dan Patrick Loses by 600,000 Votes, Starts Consulting Firm
Dan Patrick lost big, but he’s not giving up the dream.
He’s now going to be a consultant, and he’d like the Senate to take power away from the woman who beat him.
Outgoing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he supports Republican state senators changing the rules to strip powers from his Democratic successor after losing his reelection bid by nearly 600,000 votes.
He said it Monday on the Mark Davis Show. He didn’t say which powers. After 12 years on the job, he’s suddenly worried the Lt. Governor might be too powerful. It’s yet another sign of how shortsighted Republican governing has been.
He also wants you to know he’s not mad about getting destroyed in the election.
“The election was fair and square. I have no issues with that whatsoever,” Patrick said.
You know it’s bad when Democrats win and even Dan Patrick doesn’t think they cheated.
So Vikki Goodwin won by nearly 600,000 votes, and the strategy is to have 16 senators change the rules. We are so cooked.
Speaking of strategy, Patrick’s new firm is called Patrick Strategies, and it already has a website. The San Antonio Express-News took a look:
Patrick’s new consulting website bills him as a “master of the Senate and House rules,” and says “no one knows the inner workings of the Legislature more.”
Translation: I know every scam and every skeleton.
His spokesman, Steven Aranyi, says Patrick won’t sign any clients until he leaves office Jan. 19. The website says he won’t lobby, only “strategic consulting.” LOL. Lawyers told the paper it’ll be hard not to cross that line.
Holding public office seems to corrupt everyone who touches it, like Gollum and the One Ring. You see, way back in 2015, the Senate passed a bill to keep retired legislators from lobbying for two years, and Patrick put out a press release on ethics with none other than Van Taylor:
“Expanding ethics requirements for our public officers is not only the right thing to do, but it instills public trust,” said Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.
Yeah, in hindsight, an ethics press release with Van Taylor pretty much sums up what Republicans gave us for the last 12 years.
Camp County Denounces Sharia Law, Room Applauds
Another East Texas county has officially denounced Sharia law. We covered Van Zandt County’s version in October, and apparently it’s catching on.
It’s basically a reverse fatwa. It might actually be more effective if they started calling it that.
KLIF:
Mason and all four commissioners signed the five-page resolution, which cites equal rights and due process and affirms the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution. It says Camp County “denounces Sharia Law in all forms and opposes any implementation of Sharia Law” locally, statewide and nationally.
That’ll show ‘em.
The courtroom was so full that people lined the walls, and they applauded when County Judge A.J. Mason announced the result. The resolution mentions no fine, no penalty and nobody assigned to enforce anything.
Technically speaking, this is better than what the City of Keller did. Then-Mayor Armin Mizani, now a Representative-elect, promised he would pass something similar, then passed something pro-Muslim instead, and Democrats on the scene called it a “victory.”
Is anyone at Patrick Strategies strategerizing about why Republicans keep passing fake solutions to real problems and then losing?
The Capital Grille Keeps a Dossier on Republican Consultant Allen Blakemore
Current Revolt has obtained the restaurant “dossier” for Republican consultant Allen Blakemore. Blakemore is best-known for being Lt. Gov Dan Patrick’s chief strategist. Most recently, Blakemore also worked on the political campaigns for Leigh Wambsganss, Brent Hagenbuch, Don Huffines, and many others.
The OpenTable dossier tells restaurant staff where he sits, what he drinks and what they should never do.
The dossier flags him specifically as…
