2022 House and Senate election

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by mchammer, Dec 8, 2021.

  1. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Soft or crunchy?
     
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  2. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

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  3. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Beats Beta, the freakozoid liberal. And since those are our two choices, what else are you going to do?
     
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  4. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    The point is that beta is such a douche, he is going to lose South Texas.
     
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  5. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    The only choice is fast destruction or slow destruction? You shouldn't accept such an awful system. There is another way.
     
  6. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    That's good. But I gave up on the Republican Party after about 2014 when the Tea Party proved to be a failure.

    Texans should understand the saying, "all hat and no cattle". That's the Republican Party.
     
  7. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Beta would try to ruin the energy sector, appoint freaks and woke idiots to every position be could, interfere with abortion laws, advance CRT in public schools, push to have dudes in girls locker rooms, and push for gun restrictions. Other than that, he and Abbott are about the same.
     
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  8. Run Pincher

    Run Pincher 2,500+ Posts

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  9. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

  10. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    The Texas energy grid has been seriously damaged while Republicans have been in power. With a D in office the decline would be faster, but let's not kid ourselves. The decline will continue under Republicans.

    Abbott already lets Democrats have important congressional positions in the Texas lege.

    I'm with you on abortion and gun rights.

    CRT is already in our public schools. I don't hear Abbott doing anything about it. He recently has talked with Corey DeAngelis about school choice. But multiple school choice bills have been voted down by Republicans and the margin gets wider. I don't believe the Republicans are trustworthy on education.

    It's important Texans demand better from their politicians and hold them accountable when they are merely Democrat-lite or support a slow move toward Progressivism vs a fast one.
     
  11. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Isn’t DeSantis running for re-election this year? Have dems just given up? Don’t hear anything about that race.
     
  12. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Charlie Crist and Nicki Fried are the main candidates in the Democratic primary. Crist will probably win the primary, but nobody expects him to seriously threaten Desantis.

    Crist is an assclown. He is a former Republican governor who touts himself as a moderate who left the party because of its "extremism," but if you look at the issues, he wasn't really a moderate. He was a flip-flopper. He just moved around based on political convenience. Right now, he's a fairly liberal Democratic congressman, but given his record, I suspect the Democrats are only favoring him because he has some moderate appeal (for now) and because Nicki Fried is a bit of a weirdo. I doubt they trust him much, and frankly, they have good reason to distrust him.
     
  13. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    They are massively beholden to the energy sector. In terms of policy, Republicans largely give them what they want. If things fail, it won't be because Texas Republicans weren't favorable enough to them.

    Not fair to blame him. The House elects the Speaker. He chooses committee chairs. Each member gets to pick a committee based on seniority. The Speaker also gives each member at least one committee assignment. The Lieutenant Governor is elected by the people, and he appoints committees and committee chairs. The governor has no power over this.

    Two things. Abbott signed HB 3979. I'm not sure what more you want him to do. On vouchers, the Legislature has to pass the bill and send it to Abbott. He would sign it.

    As someone who has followed vouchers at the Texas legislature since 1997 and had to become a bit of a legislative expert on it for my job, I can tell you that the reason it fails isn't what most people assume. Most assume that it fails for the same reason it fails in a lot of states - the legislature has a mess of left-wing legislators who have the teacher unions' balls firmly entrenched in their mouths. But left-wing legislators haven't called the shots in Texas for 20+ years, so why do they fail? They fail because they scare the on hell out of rural legislators, virtually all of whom are not only Republicans but pretty conservative and otherwise not especially favorable to teacher unions.

    The reason why is that they fear what will happen to their school district funding under a voucher program. Of course, all districts worry about that sort of thing, but it's particularly big in rural areas, because the school district is usually by far the biggest employer in those areas and is a massive economic driver even for non-employees (businesses, contractors, etc.). If their funding is cut significantly, it isn't just a few crummy teachers not being retained, it's a major threat to the local economy.

    Personally, I'm a huge supporter of vouchers and have been basically as long as I've known that vouchers were a thing. However, I do understand the politics here, and it's tough to overcome.
     
  14. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Mr D
    Wouldn't it be more difficult financially and logistically for Charters to get up and running in rural areas? Providing transportation alone would be a huge logistical nightmare for a charter.
     
  15. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    They don't particularly want that either. For the most part, they feel like they have a good thing going. They don't want to risk turning over their apple cart just because godless suburbanites are letting freaks into their schools and black and Mexican kids in Houston and Dallas are getting hosed by their own districts. It's not their problem.
     
  16. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Beta losing 41-51 in DMN poll. Probably will be a 43-57 loss for beta.
     
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  17. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    Agree. Maybe - just maybe - this will be the end for Beto and we won't see any more of him.
     
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  18. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Beta is like a really bad case of the crabs - he'll come back just when you think you've finally rid yourself of him forever.
     
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  19. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I would bet my left arm that if he quits politics, he'll end up divorced within a couple of year. No way in hell does his wife (who could do better than him) keeps his jobless *** around.
     
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  20. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Rosie O'Donnell and Listeater could do better than him.
     
  21. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Kathy Bates in Misery could do better than him - without the hobbling.
     
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  22. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Remember when after he lost Senate race he took himself off alone to "find himself"?
    I bet his wife hoped he was gone for good but No.
    He came back like a wandering cat.
    This time she needs to move with no forwarding address.
     
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  23. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

  24. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Trump picked up points in pretty much all of the big Democratic counties in Florida. Miami-Dade was where it was most significant, but he also gained in Palm Beach, Orange, and Broward. It really isn't a swing state anymore.
     
  25. guy4321

    guy4321 2,500+ Posts

    My guess is Beta moves to Austin and runs for a city council spot. FINALLY - something he can win.
     
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  26. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    I'm not sure he is left enough for that Clowncil...
     
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  27. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    He wouldn't go to the most hard-left areas. He'd go to an area with lots of rich, white liberals. The phony-Hispanic-but-not-really-Hispanic thing is good for making them feel righteous about themselves.
     
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  28. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

  29. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    There's time to right the ship, but like in 2010, there's a very good chance that we will underperform in the Senate because of our crappy candidates. Those races are harder to overcome by improving on the generic ballot. Frankly, I'll be pleased if we're still 50-50 after Election Day.
     
  30. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Yeah, I don't think Beto would do so well in Del Valle or a lot of places in Riverside. People can see through his act.
     
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