Back in 2020 I wrote about a Democrat who proposed Legislation that would prevent any and all additional taxes from being imposed on Texans for the duration of the biennial budget. The bill went nowhere, but it showed that lowering taxes is just a thing Republicans say, when the truth is they only offer lower taxes compared to a Democrat.
Our old articles are still hosted on www.currentrevolt.squarespace.com, by the way.
I can’t find that article, but we have a new Democrat troll that’s even better. The guy even looks like hes trolling.
Trey Martinez Fischer, also known as Trey Three-Names, also known as Trey Trey, has filed HB2362.
The bill says the Texas Governor cannot just do endless renewals of disaster declarations. It says that the Texas Legislature must take up the issue regarding whatever the so-called disaster is in question.
This exact bill against executive overreeach was a legislative priority for the Republican Party of Texas 2 years ago and nothing happened.
And then, another priority that we brought forward, because I think this was so important, and we have seen that, is executive overreach. In this past year with the COVID crisis here, we saw a lot of unconstitutional orders, edicts, mandates, and decrees coming from the executive branch of government here in Texas. And if you have read HB 3, which is still pending in the State House Affairs Committee, we don’t want to see an expansion of powers for any executive. We want to make sure that our legislature, they’re the ones that are passing laws, amending laws, or what have you, not ruling over us and not any one person deciding who or what is essential. So, those are our eight legislative priorities plus one.
You may want to be aware that Governor Abbott abuses the hell out of these disaster declarations.
Abbott does this becasue it gives him more power. I assume there is a bunch of money being laundered with the border one in particular, given that we are paying for border security that does not exist.
Since Abbott has the most money of any Texas politician—effectively an unlimited amount—there is no check on his power as everyone is scared to stand up to him.
This was an urgent right-wing priority to reform these powers, and now a Democrat is championing the bill!
This is a part of an emerging trend of Texas Democrats trying to act like normal people instead of spiteful mutants pushing the most destructive policies imaginable.
This should worry all of us, because the Republicans aren’t making things any better, which means voters are liable to check out at any time.
“At least he’t not a Democrat” won’t mean much when Democrats are fake pushing Republican priorities in the same way Republicans fake push them.
I have often wondered why he wasn’t doing more to shore up his section of the border. All he has done is push legal action against Biden’s administration and made a considerable amount of noise around the midterms and once republicans didn’t get that hoped for red wave, it was back to business as usual.
I’m not even from Texas and I see the corruption. Not just weakness but lies, deceit and manipulation. Your article is spot on. Thank you for your honesty