Dan Patrick tried to get Rick Perry — the real one — to challenge Greg Abbott this year. Sadly, as Texas Rethuglicanism gets harder core, his pride likely will not go before a fall. Whether the party cracks up after his possible 2027 retirement is another issue.
And, there will surely be an academic Texodus, and not wingnut-beloved secession, if Patrick gets his wish in the next Lege and ends tenure as we know it at public universities. Question: IF this did happen, would the Southern Association refuse to certify Texas universities?
SocraticGadfly offers up a trio of politics and voting posts from last week. First, nationally, he called out a major Green Party person for hypocritically mocking the Movement for a People's Party. Second, regionally, he wondered why North Texas Dems couldn't round up a challenger to Michael Burgess. Third, locally, he talked about how one leftist of some sort does his primary voting in a semi-rural "red" county.
That rightward surge of Hispanics in the Valley? Led by Latina women, the Monthly reports. Per the story, the surge was already happening 4-5 years ago, so can't all be blamed on Biden's empty talk rhetoric about cutting back on fracking. Also, some of the women, like Mayra Flores, are repeating Trumpy baseless claims of election fraud. The Monthly's author does come off as a bit of either condescending or clueless — legal Hispanic immigrants from Mexico, in all four Southwestern border states (but least so in California) have long had solid levels of support for tightening border controls. That said, many still are proud to identify as la raza, even if they don't use that word, which means they still don't totally fit in today's GOP. In turn, that means they're not "Lost" to full-on Republicanism.
Al Green is set to represent Brazoria County in 2021, formerly represented by goldbug racist Ron Paul and bugman Tom Delay, among others. Brazoria County White folk reportedly aren't so happy.
The Rethug primary to try to unseat Wayne-o Christian on the RRC gets more interesting.
Off the Kuff informs you that Ken Paxton has added another State Bar of Texas complaint to his collection.
Dredging Port Lavaca should be a warning about doing that again to the Houston Ship Channel, or doing any other reshaping work to the channel as part of an "Ike Dike."
The Trib, contra other recent polling I've seen, claims Gohmert Pyle trails Pee Bush and Eva Guzman in the bid to unseat Kenny Boy Paxton. Color me skeptical.
Wrongful death suits re Winter Storm Uri could start picking up speed next month.
Robert Rivard ponders DeLorean's future in San Antonio.
Texas 2036 shares the results of their fourth Texas Voters Poll.
Murray Newman reviews the contested criminal court primaries for Democrats in Harris County.
National and global
Who is Q? Or was? Machine learning says two people, first Paul Furber, then with a sort of hijacking, Ron Watkins, did it. Both, especially Watkins, have "good" reason for denial.
The arrests in Ottawa picked up. Tamara Lich was arrested. Oh, and the Toronto Star, I guess trying to represent allegedly mainstream, non-Candice Bergen Conservatives (but, if a majority of the Conservative caucus tapped her, she's "mainstream" now, right?) says Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act wasn't needed .... even as it admits it "wasn't clear" that he had bank-freezing powers without it.
Ukrainian President Zelensky spoke in Munich. Of course he did. Symbolism pitch! That said, re Munich, has he discussed how his own government remains at least partially co-opted by neo-Nazis, including militias like the Azov Force?
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