Thank you for your work.
I foresee such a rupture as increasingly likely, no matter how much people like you and I work the problem, organize, encourage Texans to take an interest, and try to get county / city / state gummint to respond to legit citizen/resident concerns. I’ve lost count of how many city council meetings, county commissioners court meetings, TCEQ SOAH hearings, groundwater conservation district meetings, etc. that I have attended, whether speaking up or just taking notes. Traction is slim-to-none especially at the state house (gobbless Erin Zwiener, at least she cares) and state senate. Until we equitably redraw the gerrymandered districts, dems are having to work 10x harder and still face long odds of winning.
My sense of Texas’ chance of real progress is that the oil and gas corporations simply have too strong a hold–really, a death grip–on politics to implement sensible future-minded policies, get redress for environmental damage, truly serve all Texans and not just the GOBs, Big Bidness / the wealthy, etc.
Regulatory capture + Texas Railroad Commission (folks, that commission regulates oil and gas, not railroads, it’s a long story) =
Garbage.
Cooked by experts [in grift].
Dished out [by elected officials and their appointees] with zero accountability.
I just can’t face another helping, and ffs I’m in CenTex, where the living is comparatively easy.
…and he has real chance of going far with that threat.
I won’t stand for it. he is as dangerous as tRump and 100x smarter (though no genius, he is craven and devious).
It also makes “mob intimidation”—defined as two or more people trying to compel someone to “assume, abandon, or maintain a particular viewpoint against his or her will”—a misdemeanor
so… they just unlawed debate club, fraternity rushes, lobbying, and advertising agencies.
What “loss of liberties”?
Who’d feel intimidated by a gathering of true patriots promoting the real American Values?
Who wouldn’t join them right away?
What is “beyond” serious? Ardent? Fervid? I wish he’d just say he’s looking rabidly and a 2024 run. I can picture that.
Rabid and with diet coke spewing everywhere, like from those Mentos + coke demonstrations.
