Meeting at their first in-person convention since 2018, about 5,100 Texas Republicans last Saturday passed a raft of resolutions and proposed Texas GOP platform changes to move their party even further to the right
Approved were measures declaring that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected”; and rebuking Sen. John Cornyn for taking part in the current bipartisan gun control talks
The Texas Republicans also voted in favor of a platform plank that declares homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and calls for Texas schoolchildren “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child.”
But here is the kicker --- saying that the U.S. government has impaired Texas' right of self-government --- the Texas GOP platform calls for rejecting any legislation that conflicts with Texas' states rights — and it urges consideration whether leaving the Union might be the only proper response to the encroachment by the Feds on the rights of Texas and Texans
The votes at the Texas GOP convention reinforced the extent to which former President Donald J. Trump’s claims of a stolen election continue to resound among the party faithful — even after a week of televised Congressional hearings about Trump's supporters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
It's now clear that in 2022, the Texas GOP feels free to veer to the right to its heart’s content, confident that it won’t come back to haunt the party in November, except perhaps in about half dozen races. Even the party’s pragmatic center right conservatives lacked any traction arguig, as they had successfully in 2020, that an ultra conservative platform could cost the GOP its majority status in the Lone Star State. This year, even the absolute worst case scenario has the GOP winning statewide, increasing its number of U.S. House seats, boosting its Texas Senate majority by a seat, and maintaining the 83 seats it held in the 2021 Texas House.
GOP calls on Texas to hold a referendum on seceding
In Texas, secession is a perennial idea that tends to bloom when a Democrat holds the Oval Office. The new Texas GOP platform reflects that and now states --- "Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto...." Elswhere in the document, the GOP delegates urged state lawmakers to put a referendum on the ballot for the 2023 election >>> "... for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation...."
3 comments:
If Senator Cornyn had a legislative director arrested that was in a motorcycle gang suspected of murder and then arrested for raping teen would it have been an issue?
Get the facts right. There was no prior 'murder' as such. There was a person missing under mysterious circumstances, and Brady had been 'questioned' in connection with that disappearance, but somebody else later pleaded guilty to 'manslaughter' of that missing person in a very odd plea deal.
RESPONSE: THE "ONLY THE COMMENTERS ON THIS BLOG....." EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 8:34 AM" & "... AT 10:28 AM"
IT SEEMS THAT CERTAIN COMMENT MAKERS ON THIS INDEPENDENT GOP BLOG FOR BROOKLYN AND STATEN ISLAND THINK THAT THE COMMENTS THREAD FOR OUR FEATURE ARTICLE ABOUT SOME OF WHAT WENT ON AT THE TEXAS GOP CONVENTION LAST WEEK AND WEEKEND IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO TALK ABOUT A BREWING LOCAL SCANDAL CONCERNING LOCAL DEMOCRATS IWEN CHU, PETER ABBATE, AND JOSEPH BRADY [NOW UPSTATE] --- IT'S REALLY NOT >>> WHEN THE RIGHT SPOT FOR SUCH COMMENTS IS THE COMMENTS THREAD IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO THIS ONE
MEANWHILE BACK ON THE SUBJECT OF THE GOINGS-ON AT THE TEXAS GOP CONVENTION.....
>>> AND REMEMBER, WE AREN'T JUST TALKING ABOUT A FEW "PROUD BOYS" OR "OATH KEEPERS" HERE --- BUT 5100 (OF ABOUT 6000+) ELIGIBLE DELEGATES TO THE TEXAS STATE GOP CONVENTION
A Texas GOP committee passed a resolution at the Texas GOP Convention on Thursday stating “... 'red flag laws' violate one’s right to due process and are a pre-crime punishment of people not adjudicated guilty....” and that “... waiting periods on gun purchases harm those who need to acquire the means of self-defense....” and “... all gun control is a violation of the Second Amendment and our God-given rights....”
In the same resolution, the Texas Republican Party rejected the “... so called ‘bipartisan gun agreement’....” and rebuked Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn and nine other Republican Senators who are cooperating with Democrats on those propoesed federal "reforms" to the national gun laws.....
As a result of such perceived overreach by the U.S. Government, Texas Republicans at their convention were booing Cornyn when he spoke; and were agitating for presenting "nullification" and "secession" to/ for all Texans.....
Post a Comment