Texas Progressives take down current prez candidates, a former mayor and a former fetus, among others

The Texas Progressive Alliance did not listen to Paul Ryan's advice in putting together this week's roundup.

Off the Kuff cheers the impending settlement of the lawsuit over that bogus SOS advisory about non-citizen voters.

SocraticGadfly shows why, as he sees it, that Pete Buttigieg is so bad a presidential candidate he could be called Beto Lite.

Brains updates his Prez 2020 reporting with takes on Tim Ryan and Eric Swalwell.

And plenty on Robert Francis Beto O’Rourke’s very bad week.

The Atlantic busts Robert Francis O’Rourke for telling Trump-style outright lies about campaign stop crowd sizes.

Robert Francis O’Rourke, in a case of brazen pandering, does a post-House, ex post facto flip flop on a vote to approve offshore oil voting and essentially admits the flip-flop is becausehe’s now running for president.

And Big John Cornyn stuff:

The Trib reports details of Texas Democrats’ push to take down John Cornyn in 2020. In related items, Wendy Davis removed herself from seeking the Democratic nomination (thank doorknob) and Kuff still refuses to mention the name of Sema Hernandez among already announced Democrats.

And here are some more posts of interest from other sites.

Former fetus and continuing jackass of the Texas Legislature Jonathan Stickland threw in the towel

on his concealed carry bill — due to somebody more nutty than him threatening Speaker Dennis Bonnen.

The Lunch Tray brings news of a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its efforts to roll back school nutrition standards.

Kate McLean asks how it is that the operator of the second chemical plant in the Houston area to explode received good safety rankings despite a history of being cited for violating safety regulations.

Mean Green Cougar Red has good monarch butterfly news.

Grits for Breakfast has a load of data about arrests for Class C misdemeanors.

Juanita remains unimpressed by Secretary of State wannabe David Whitley.

Beyond Bones tells the tale of when beer saved the world.

The Texas Observer profiles Harris County Judge Linda Hidalgo.

Even a Texas GOP consultant says top Rethuglicans may be crying wolf when shouting “socialism” all the time.

Former Dallas City Councilman Dwayne Caraway got almost five years in the Big House

for his role in the Dallas County Schools bribery case.