During this year’s regular legislative session, lawmakers filed at least nine toll-related bills, including proposals that sought to cap fines and fees, eliminate misdemeanor charges for delinquent users and make toll roads free to use once the bonds issued to build them are repaid.
Thank you, all common sense bills nobody in their right mind would block…
Only one of those bills, House Bill 2170, became law. It requires toll entities to notify users with electronic tags when an automatic payment is rejected. The law takes effect Sept. 1.
Wtf? That’s our “relief”? A text when credit card expires? Gee thanks.
Having watched the court case and seen the evidence, I was personally of the opinion that Rittenhouse did act in self defense. I was really hoping he would take his free pass after being acquitted and disappear to go live his life, but it seems like he’s decided to milk his fame and join the party of racists, bigots, and other pieces of shit. Shame.
Yeah I feel like if it was a story from a liberal area the title would read something like residents clamoring for handouts and not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
I get it. I’m military. Moving is expensive, but beyond that, it’s stressful af. Re establishing routines and relationships in brand new locations sucks, unpacking is tiring, packing is tiring, househunting is tiring, etc etc etc.
But holy shit, I’m gtfoing the second I’m allowed to. Hopefully that’ll be my last move too 😂
I kind of hope this victory makes Paxton sloppy in his future criminal endeavors, so that federal prosecutors, less mired in corruption than the Texas senate, can make an unambiguous case against him.
Imagine how the AG’s office with the set of people that were last on the stand and seemed to be kissing his ass, will be able to cover up things now? They will obviously just be much stealthier, and without repercussions from things like emails and texts on systems that cannot be accounted for. Why did no one on the prosecution pursue that further. Their excuse was that they used that for the China trip. I don’t recall hearing anyone ask the dates of the China trip and whether or not 1) they continued use beyond the China trip and 2) pulled all communication during the China trip and archived it after. To me, regardless of the other claims, etc, that right there was a clear violation of the law. Any state employee’s work is public record, and they destroyed public records by not backing that up and turning it into public record after the trip. If you think the AG’s office was corrupt now, just wait till all those people working there get their reward.
“Despite the victory, Paxton’s troubles are far from over. He faces trial on charges of securities fraud dating back to 2015.
More dangerous to Paxton is a federal investigation that began when the attorney general’s senior aides reported him to the FBI in 2020, alleging crimes that mirror the impeachment charges. That case has reached a grand jury in San Antonio. A new criminal indictment carries far higher stakes than impeachment. Campaigning to stay in office is one thing; fighting to remain out of prison is another entirely.”
And as usual we have to gamble that we don’t get a Trump judge. This country is a joke, but I hope the DOJ takes it all the way through the courts because this should have never happened and for this long. No normal person would still be free.
The sham impeachment coordinated by the Biden Administration with liberal House Speaker Dade Phelan and his kangaroo court has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, disrupted the work of the Office of Attorney General and left a dark and permanent stain on the Texas House. - Ken Paxton
Is someone going to tell Paxton that Phelan is a Republican? I know Paxton won’t care because it’s a fact but we should still make sure he at least knows he’s lying…again.
Edit: Also, what is “it” that he got away with? I have known he was being impeached but never saw exactly why.
HB 900, which was approved during this year’s regular legislative session, requires school library vendors to rate all their books and materials for appropriateness before selling them to schools based on the presence of sex depictions or references. It also requires vendors to rank materials previously sold to schools and issue a recall for those that are deemed sexually explicit and are in active use by a school.
Man, I wanted to buy a copy of the Bible with all of the MPAA warnings printed on the front!
Contains a ludicrous amount of incest. Not for use by persons under the age of 18.
This is a facially stupid law. (And by “facially stupid,” I’m not even addressing the morally bankrupt policy implications, but rather critiquing the framework that is wholly untethered from how the law and a system of justice works.)
It’s almost like they just want the money and have no intention of doing the things the money was intended for. Kind of like the “welfare queens” their types like to harp about…
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