Yeah. I don’t know behind the scenes or personal life stuff but I wish they had at least explored other options besides just going back after a couple of days.
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how do you know that they didn't?
aug 18, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
ok just saw someone explaining that staying 30+ days out would constitute a potential vacancy of residence under state law so, yeah, balance works out to “they really can’t just stay longer as an effective tactic”
aug 18, 2025, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Im sure there are all sorts of legal complications but like... yall got teams of lawyers and were physically sheltered from arrest. Fuck around.
aug 18, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the biggest problem by far is that they needed to hold almost the entire caucus because Texas Rs only needed 5 to break and there are plenty of DINOs in the Texas House
aug 18, 2025, 8:40 pm • 33 1 • view
All or most of the RGV Dems are all going to switch parties in the next 5 years potentially. Who knows if there will be a swing back?
aug 18, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
it's difficult to imagine a universe where things *don't* swing back in South Texas
aug 18, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
We shall see. Cultural conservatism will likely keep them in line.
aug 18, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
you're very confident about something for which there's no evidence, Trump's approval with hispanics is hilariously bad
aug 18, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe I’m pessimistic. Traumatized by the stupidity of 2024
aug 18, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
People are totally wedded to culture war and will suffer any price for it. Far too many at least.
aug 18, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
ah, so the difference between us is that i don't think that's why he won
aug 18, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
i mean i too am incredibly traumatized by 2024, it basically broke how i perceived politics, but it's empirically true that hispanics disapprove of him right now by incredibly wide margins
aug 18, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
that and staying away for 5 months in what is supposed to be their off season is a really, really tough sell. most of them have day jobs
aug 18, 2025, 8:42 pm • 30 1 • view
The Texas Legislature being a bi-annual part time job that pays worse than being a dishwasher is just a mindblowingly stupid way to run a state.
aug 18, 2025, 8:48 pm • 44 2 • view
It's deliberate. State legislatures are often designed to enfranchise only the wealthiest and most powerful in a given state. Oregon has a similar problem; our state legislator pay is dirt, so you usually get someone cowed by big money or otherwise privileged somehow
aug 18, 2025, 8:51 pm • 116 12 • view
Back when the Oregon legislature was fully volunteer, but legislative staff was paid, it was ubiquitous for legislators to hire spouses as their one full-time staffer so at least someone in the household would be getting an income.
aug 18, 2025, 9:05 pm • 7 0 • view
Pay politicians more. Incentive produce rewards.
aug 19, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
yeah you can tease out a little bit of a red state/blue state thing but there's also a bunch of wild outliers (missouri gets $41,000 and new mexico's *don't get paid*) www.ncsl.org/about-state-...
aug 18, 2025, 8:56 pm • 10 1 • view
it is NOT at all a red state/blue state thing, plenty of blue states have this issue too
aug 18, 2025, 9:01 pm • 4 0 • view
For similar reasons, ban Term Limits for Legislative Offices and keep them for Executive Offices. Michigan actually has the 4th highest paid Legislators (which I love), but has Legislative Term Limits. And to be brutally honest, it shows.
aug 18, 2025, 9:04 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm actually so-so on term limits for governors. I don't think you can make an argument that it's critically important without bringing up things that could be addressed other ways
aug 18, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
legislators, definitely not
aug 18, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I usually dont like ot when people say "we need a constitutional amendment" but this is absolutely something that should be addressed with a constitutional amendment.
aug 18, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
The issue was that there was no clear consequence for cowardice. There needs to be.
aug 18, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, it was almost certainly that the requisite handful were going to cave, so the others who came back but would’ve held out weren’t going to be accomplishing a quorum break by staying away at that point.
aug 18, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view