Texas voters: Here's your constitutional amendment voting recommendation

To go out of order? The biggie is Proposition 4. Vote NO, NO, and NO. Any librul or alleged leftist organization telling you to vote yes is full of it. I covered this a month ago, and specifically called out Lone Star "Left" for saying vote yes. It's a boondoggle fiscally AND, even worse, for anybody truly to the left? It's horribly antienvironmental. Since then, I noted something worse: The state doesn't even know how much water these "data centers" will use, and it has basically no regulations to that end.

Lone Star "Left," per Cactus Ed Abbey, seems to believe in growth for growth's sake without admitting that's the theology of the cancer cell.

The Texas branch of League of Women Voters is also wrong. 

So is the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, clearly proving itself to still be Gang Green neoliberals in the environmental organization world, in an official support with no real analysis. 

I mean, that piece even admits voters are being offered a pig in a poke:

At least 50% of the annual allocations must go toward the New Water Supply for Texas Fund and the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT). The New Water Supply for Texas Fund supports various projects - some of which are highly controversial - that add to the total volume of water available to Texans, such as reservoir construction, seawater desalination, reuse of oil and gas wastewater (“produced water”), a statewide water conveyance system, acquisition of water from out of state, water and wastewater reuse, and aquifer storage and recovery. 

The focus of the SWIFT is solely on water infrastructure projects identified in the State Water Plan. This is an important accountability measure because it means there must be some level of support for the project locally for it to appear in the State Water Plan. However, there is no requirement for how this part of the funding must be split between the New Water Supply for Texas Fund and SWIFT.

But still says vote yes. 

OK, now the rest. Some I'll have an "OK" with the yes. One or two may be absolute yeses. Many of the "no" votes have "Wingnut virtue signaling" as part of them. That's because these already not only don't exist but may be constitutionally barred, depending on who's interpreting Tex-ass' constitution and related legal issues at hand.

That said, per the graphic, most of the answer is "no." 

Prop 1, for dedicated funds for Texas State Technical College? Yes is OK. 

Prop 2 on barring capital gains tax? Wingnut virtue signaling. Vote no.

Prop 3, denying bail. Wingnut cruelty, and the moral equivalent of assuming guilt in advance. NO.

Prop 5, on property tax exemption for animal feed at a feed store? A quasi-private member bill carve-out. No.

Prop 6, barring securities taxes?  Wingnut virtue signaling. Vote no

Prop 7, for benefits for surviving spouses of certain veterans? Yes is OK. Reason I don't say a flat yes is, are domestic partners excluded? What happens if SCOTUS overturns Obergefell? 

Prop 8, banning estate taxes?  Wingnut virtue signaling. Vote no

Prop 9, exemption to tangible assets on personal property taxes? Vote no; not only is the loophole and possible abuse an issue, but this should be something addressed outside of amendment if possible. 

Prop 10, property tax exemption for a house totally destroyed by fire? Written poorly, as "temporary" is not defined. Vote no.

Prop 11, the jump in elderly / disabled extra homestead exemption from $10K to $60K? Too big a jump at one time. Vote no.

Prop 12, changes to State Commission on Judicial Conduct. Vote no if for no other reason that it removes the State Bar of Texas from naming two members. This is a squeeze on them and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Lone Star Left missed that.

Prop 13, upping the homestead exemption? Vote no. Lone Star Left notes it offers nothing to renters, then says "next time around." Wrong.

Prop 14, funding the Dementia Institute? Sounds noble, but vote no for this as a special carve-out.

Prop 15, parental rights? I'm torn. I can see where wingnut activist parents might weaponize this. I can also see how parents of kids with sexual dysphoria could use it to fight back against the likes of Kenny Boy Paxton. No recommendation, as I've not yet decided myself.

Prop 16, that only US citizens can vote? Wingnut virtue signaling. Vote no 

Prop 17, Strangeabbott's Operation Lone Star property tax handout in border counties? Vote no. 

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Texas branch of League of Conservation Voters no longer has a website. (What links off Facebook ain't theirs.) Their Hucksterman hasn't been updated since 2022. Green Party of Texas, despite having a quarterly state executive meeting last week, has taken no public position on Prop 4 or the other amendments.