Texas Is the Dry Run for the GOP’s Dismantling of Electoral Democracy
They know what they are doing. In his opening remarks, King described his reasons to sponsor the bill: “My first objective is to create a plan that will eliminate five other Republicans in the American Congress.” If it seems scandalous, it is because you properly draw the link between the GOP seats and the decreasing representation of people of color, which is exactly what they can’t say. They can be honest about their ends but not their means, although both are practically the same.
These kissers cannot be shameful. This is perhaps the only thing they have in common with their ancestors in the Texas Legislative Assembly, an elected organization with the shortest calendar in the country and therefore the most scandals per hour served. Previously, this fascination was a little more flamboyant. Texas policy at the old school had a sweat and theatrical quality – men in Bolo and cowboy boots saying the calm part with a wink. But today’s GOP operates with another type of umpesulty: dull, mechanical and beck and at the call of a tyrant. Although we still have the strange sex scandal (and some of them are very strange), immorality here is bloody, cold. They perform a plan. They are not worried about losing power. They build a system where they will never have to ask for it again.
I had been at the Capitol for six hours before Pastor Dan occurred. I had pages of notes, hours of vocal memos. A witness after the witness took the microphone to explain how this card would harm them and hurt Texas. This would make a more difficult access to access, more diluted representation and reverse democracy: this “would allow representatives to select their districts and not their districts to select their representatives”. In the past three weeks, there have been thousands of public comments on this card. Last week, the Democrats of the Texas Chamber were on in other parts as a last effort to prevent a vote and are now “driven as slaves on the run”, in the colorful formulation of Miles.
