r/TexasPolitics

My fucking word. Just saw the ad where Angela Paxton is Schilling for Ken. I can't believe it. She wants to be on the team of a cheating pedophile enabler and if the whole team doesn't win it's a loss.

I've never voted Democrat before. Mostly libertarian over the last 20 years.

This election, im damn sure voting Talarico. I was leaning that way already but this ad Galvanized me. It's time to lock up the government and buy time for a solution in 2 years.

His speeches get a lot of attention, but I’m honestly more impressed what he’s done in the Texas Legislature. People keep saying to look at his record. I did.

I read that he was the lead author on almost 200 bills during his time in office, and half of those dealt with protecting kids, education, or workforce development for young people.

What stood out to me:
- He voted for the 2023 property tax relief package, described at the time as the largest property tax cut in Texas history.

He voted against HB 900, the school library book restriction bill. I agree with this bill because personally, I want parents deciding what’s right for their own child. I don’t want the government deciding what everyone else’s kids can read.

- He also helped pass a $25 insulin copay cap per 30 day insulin prescription for people with covered health plans.

- He authored the Texas law establishing a pathway for importing lowerncost prescription drugs from Canada.

- He helped pass the state’s first cap on pre-K class sizes, in response to overcrowded classrooms.

I'm also impressed that he did this in a Legislature controlled by Republicans, and honestly, I don’t know how he has the patience for that. Working across the aisle to get bills passed while also challenging them on book restrictions and school vouchers takes skill.
People can reasonably disagree with him on individual votes.

But if the question is whether James Talarico has a legislative record beyond viral speeches, the answer is clearly yes. His record includes property tax relief, lowering prescription drug costs, insulin costs, protecting kids, early childhood education, and opposition to school library restrictions.

FTA:

In a comptroller's news release, Don Huffines called water fluoridation a waste of taxpayer money and said there should be other solutions.

Sarah Eckhardt, a state senator from Austin, said the effort falls outside the comptroller’s traditional role and diverts state resources on an issue far removed from the concerns of Texans.

“This is like that uncle who likes to do research on crazy stuff and put it on the family Facebook,” Eckhardt said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News.

The comptroller’s office announced the review Tuesday, saying in a news release it would examine spending by taxpayers and ratepayers on water fluoridation, its health effects and possible alternatives. 

But the review goes beyond costs. The agency said it also will examine other state-supported public health programs that it says “medicalize Texans without individual choice,” as well as how other states and countries have approached fluoridation.

Hello, my family lives in a very LGBTQ+ friendly area of Wisconsin, and as we were trying to watch Packers football (on Wisconsin television), the ad I'm sure you're all aware of came on. As someone with an LGBT sister and who has had personal feelings as well, I can't have this ad in our house. How could this happen? What can I do about it?

First time voter, located in Katy, Texas; can I go in person to register? I feel like it’d be easier, and where would I go to do that. I work full time, and I’m in school full time, so I know it’s last minute, but I haven’t had time.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently sat down with his daughter for an on-camera conversation about fatherhood and parenting advice, but the replies took the discussion in a different direction.

Paxton, the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, shared a three-minute clip in a post on X Saturday afternoon. By Sunday afternoon, it had drawn more than 700 comments, 4,200 likes and 250,000 views.

Many commenters turned the conversation to Paxtons' marriage and questions about alleged infidelity.

As an independent that thinks for myself and isn’t influenced by anyone else…this is what I see.

Let me start by saying I HATE the 2 party system. It should have been designed with no parties, and everyone runs as an independent, so we don’t get stupid party line voted and division that pits two sides against each other. However, we’re stuck with our current system, and we gotta pick one party, and to me, one significantly stands out more than the other when it comes to having our best interests in mind.

I watched Biden pass the first infrastructure bill in decades so red states could have better roads and bridges. Biden had internet expanded to rural areas so these deep red areas could get online access. Biden got rid of lead pipes in red states so their kids could have safe drinking water. Biden made it so medical debt couldn’t affect their credit, and fought bank & airline junk fees for us. He passed the PACT Act so that even veterans that voted against him could get disability for illnesses from burn pits and brought them home from the Republican-started Afghan war. He got lifesaving drug prices drastically reduced. And how do they repay him? They all shout “Fuck Joe Biden.”

Yet all Trump does is pass another tax cut for himself and corporations, reversed the law that kept medical debt from affecting our credit, reversed the bank and airline junkfees so they can fee us to death again, and uses tax payer dollars to build monuments to himself, starts another war, drives up inflation and gas, and they all lick his boots. Make it make sense.