Saturday, May 16, 2020

#TXLEGE: Who does Leach think he's kidding?!?



"And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?"
Apparently, Chip Roy was (correctly) raising heck in D.C. yesterday:
O.K. Good deal Chip Roy. Ghost/proxy voting is a wretched procedure.

Then this happened:


You're joking, right?!?

Case in point:


From last session:
But this isn’t a ghost story. It’s a story of representatives helping each other via an informed courtesy involving pushing their voting buttons when they’re away from their desks. Lots of votes are cast on a long day in the House. And lots of times members are elsewhere in the chamber when votes come up. They often leave instructions with desk neighbors on how they want to be shown voting, though they have to be in the chamber to vote.

But sometimes those votes are cast when a member is not in the chamber nor in the building nor even in Austin. That’s not supposed to happen.

But sometimes it changes the outcome of a close vote on an important matter.
You get the point, but there's a wealth of additional examples here.

Bottom Line:  For a member of the Texas house to decry ghost/proxy voting is quite something.

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