ACTION ALERT: Come and Take It!
Besieged by public outrage, the principals that conspired to torpedo Texas’ “Restrain-the-TSA” legislation (HB 1937) are now pointing fingers at one another.
HB 1937 proposed to make it a felony for low-wage, untrained TSA bureaucrats to grope your person without probably cause. The bill received a unanimous recommendation in all House and Senate committees, was passed by a unanimous vote in the Texas House, and had oral commitments of support from all senators immediately prior to its scheduled vote.
When presented for final debate in the Senate, State Sen. Dan Patrick was forced to pull the bill he sponsored when 12 Senators withdrew their support due to threats leveled by the Department of Justice. The federal government’s deliberate interference in the deliberative process of a state government triggers a constitutional crisis.
An Austin American Statesman news story late last night reported that State Senator Kirk Watson organized the revolt at the behest of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
This morning, Senator Watson’s office is stating that the senator was only following “orders” from the Lt. Governor, while David Dewhurst’s office claims the “turn-around” was led by Watson and that the Lt. Governor had nothing to do with the Senators’ last minute decision-making.
The Lt. Governor’s statement is contradicted by Senator Patrick, as reported by an overnight report the Dallas Morning News, and David Dewhurst is not using his bully pulpit to rally support for the bill.
Both the Lt. Governor’s and Senator Kirk Watson’s office are experiencing heavy call volumes. Hold them both accountable by calling:
Senator Kirk Watson @ (512) 463-0114
Lt. Governor David Dewhurst @ (512) 463-0001.
Use our web tool to email the Texas Senate to remind them this is a Come and Take It moment!
Good, it’s about time these guys get some flak for withdrawing their support of H.B. 1937.
Screw the federal government, I for one would love to stand on the steps of the Texas capitol and face whatever these federal bureaucrats want to throw our way.
Keep making those calls people, it’s our time to “draw the line in the sand”.
Why won’t you give the names and the parties of the “real culprits.”
I know Dewhurst, Watson, Hinojosa and I think Patrick are some of the culprits and we can see them playing the dueling pointing fingers game to perfection, but Heather Fazio said on a radio show yesterday evening that it was primarily Democrat senators who betrayed Texans.
We need a good clear complete list and party affiliations of the “real culprits.” Also should be provided at least a link to the Texas Legislature Online voting report of that fateful senatorial vote.
I am beginning to see that the “Democrats”, though not exclusively, are the main real culprits and that is quite revelatory to me as I thought they were about human rights and civil liberties. Very telling, but you need to tell this more clearly.
I am all for using every tool we have and the tool of full exposure is just about the only and main tool we have left.
For God’s sake, NAME NAMES!
Jeannon–the names are named. But, since you asked, Dewhurst is a Republican. Kirk Watson and Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa are Austin and Dallas Democrats, respectively.
We prefer not to be partisan here, because this is not a partisan issue, it is a human one.
Recently, Gallop reported that for the first time since they have been polling, less than 50% of American now identify themselves as being either Democrat or Republican. It seems both parties are betraying their voters, so we see the real political dynamic more as “sovereign American” or “sell out to the globalist banking/corporate cartel”.
We try to identify who the sellouts are in each party so that they may be defeated at the ballot box.
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