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Tony McDonald

@TweetTonyMac

1 year

"Several special sessions will be required."

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3 years

“Violence is never a solution to political problems.” — Politicians, speaking from a town named after a guy who lead a war to start his own country.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton

@KenPaxtonTX

3 years

These are not Trump supporters.

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@longhornderek They absolutely should be allowed to walk into the building. The lockdown of the Capitol is indicative that we do not have a functioning republic. Haven’t for a long time.

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@Comey You’re a criminal who tried to overthrow the president via coup.

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Texas’s most accurate pollster from the 2022 general election has @DadePhelan down 24-48 in a ballot test. It turns out when you spend all your time empowering Democrats and attacking Republicans your voters start to notice. #txlege

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s Popularity Plummets Following Lackluster Session - Texas Scorecard

Only 24 percent of GOP voters say they would vote for Phelan over a conservative challenger.

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@AndrewRCraig Nolan said it was artistic license to honor the role that Americans in the territories played in the US entering the war.

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Lt. Gov. Patrick speaking with quiet fury now comparing the professionalism of the Senators to the absolute political incompetence of the Texas House. No #txlege should ever operate in the same pathetic manner as @DadePhelan .

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If Texas politics had the dignity of British politics, @DadePhelan would be resigning on Monday. #txlege #Paxtonimpeachment

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These clowns indicted @MarkMeadows for texting another rep: "Can you send me the number for the speaker and the leader of PA Legislature. POTUS wants to chat with them."

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10 months

So we learned that the House's case lacked any substance whatsoever—there literally wasn't even a kitchen remodel—and that the "whistleblowers" were biased and were all being egged on by Paxton's political enemies. This was the trial. Time for this sham to be over. #txlege

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10 months

So we're hearing more now that everything that went down with the Paxton staff revolt was orchestrated out of @GovAbbott 's office and was leaked to @georgepbush who immediately started planning to political benefit from it. #txlege

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2 years

"I can't believe you're a sick son of a bitch who would come to a deal like this to make a political issue." - Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin to Beto O'Rourke.

Townhall.com

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2 years

VIDEO: Beto O'Rourke CRASHES Greg Abbott's press conference providing an update on yesterday's shooting.

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8 months

@WaltHickey Wouldn’t it make it worse in this instance?

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11 months

Remember when Trump got elected and we were all concerned about ISIS and Syria and then that all just went away, and then they drove him out of office and immediately started WWIII with Russia?

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10 months

The House put up Mateer as their key witness but it's clear the "revolt" in the office was NOT his decision. He was a follower. He's still unsure of himself. So the question is, who was the prime mover on this effort to remove @KenPaxtonTX ? #txlege

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People realize this means we have to incarcerate the Democrats until they stop criminalizing politics or we just devolve into civil war, right? It’s all escalation.

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@KHancock4TX You can try to play this game but we watched the trial. The House case was a fraud and an embarrassment. You should resign. #txlege

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@greg_price11

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Seriously if you support this indictment you’re a complete degenerate. Read it. It’s ridiculous. I just got to the part where they indicted a guy for saying he was “looking into the election,” exchanging contact info with another guy, and asking him to “help as needed.”

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3 years

@longhornderek Open appointments at the White House used to be a point of national pride.

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4 months

This is a crime. @KenPaxtonTX should sue this district immediately.

Brad Johnson

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4 months

An email sent to Borman Elementary School staff in Denton County urges all employees vote in the GOP primary against unnamed pro-voucher candidates. #txlege It includes this statement from Diboll ISD Superintendent Brian Bowman: “Texas educators do not come together & vote on

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1 year

This is a must read from former UT Regent Wallace Hall. He was a target of a corrupt impeachment effort by the #txlege House and has great incite on the democrat-led impeachment of @KenPaxtonTX .

A Time for Choosing in Texas

In 2014, the same Texas House that impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton—our most popular politician—used the same playbook to try to remove me from my position as a regent of the University of...

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6 months

Remember: Jan 6th was a deep state false flag. If you’re not sure, but open minded, start by reading up on the fake pipe bombs.

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These people indicted @SidneyPowell1 for signing a contract with a forensic data firm to examine voting machines.

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@MrJoshPerry Oh yeah. Me too. Usually college, sometimes junior high. A lot of times I know I’ve been missing the class but I can’t recall even what or where it is. I wake up midway through a futile hunt for my schedule, sometimes frustrated by my failure to recall my login or locker combo.

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4 years

@ScottTParkinson Killing babies is the centerpiece of their platform. So, no.

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5 months

Total Victory! I'm so excited to announce that my clients @TxTurf , @TrueTXProject and @GAWTP won across the board in the Court of Appeals in our fight over whether taxpayers are protected from misleading constitutional amendment ballot language proposed by the #txlege .

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4 years

@Finman1988 @emabrams Yeah, I was dissapointed I couldn't put my firm on the law firms list. Make sure you count me!!!

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6 years

@MattWalshBlog Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Reformation day is about celebrating the restoration of the faith and sound doctrine (both outside the Roman church and within it, to some extent), not about celebrating schism or separation.

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9 years

Happy. Happy. Happy. #iowacaucus @tedcruz

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@CBSNewsTexas @cbs11jack He’s a fraud. We watched the trial. There’s nothing there. He needs to resign.

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9 months

Absolutely worth the watch. Tucker and Ken talk about the Austin serial killer at one point, btw.

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

9 months

Ep. 25 Liberals like Karl Rove just tried to annihilate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. It didn't work. Paxton just joined us for his first interview since his acquittal.

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10 months

Buzbee is eloquently laying out the divide between those of us who know the Feds sometimes do awful things and those who are still delusional that the FBI and DOJ are beyond reproach. #txlege #Paxtonimpeachment

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7 months

@CodeMonkeyZ It’s amazing that people think this was a bad investment. The guy literally owns the “public square” and has the ability to boost or lower the volume on any particular speaker’s megaphone. That’s incredible influence.

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9 months

Wow. @DadePhelan is an incredibly childish and immature man. He sounds scared. He's reading a script to shut @reptinderholt down, and when Tinderholt asks him a simple question about the exact issue that Phelan is discussing, he just carries on and reads the script and issues his

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9 months

🚨WATCH: Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan just… SILENCED CONSERVATIVE HOUSE MEMBER! 👇 #txlege @reptinderholt

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9 months

@DadePhelan Resign

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@Johnny2Cellos Strong competitor but Last Exit to Springfield and Homer Badman beat this one.

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6 months

Useless organization. Worse than useless actually.

NRA

@NRA

6 months

TEXAS: NRA Proudly Endorses Speaker @DadePhelan for Re-election With an A+ Rating "NRA is proud to stand with such a demonstrated leader in the fight to defend liberty and freedom in the Lone Star State." –NRA-PVF Chairman Randy Kozuch ➡️

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1 year

“We won’t stand for public corruption.” The #txlege House is public corruption.

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10 months

The basic theme of this opening statement from Andrew Murr is that he knows better than the voters, and that the #txlege must protect voters from themselves.

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Any outside observer who watched that would have said “that resolution is going to fail.” The opponents mopped the floor. But this is the #txlege House cult. They don’t move according to debate. They move according to fealty to an incompetent speaker.

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4 months

You know who won’t get enough credit for last night’s victories? Jill Glover. Obviously, she was no longer around to knock doors and such, but it was her tireless efforts (along with many others) on behalf of the party to push the #txlege to deliver results that set the stage.

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4 years

This is absolute madness. It is sick and cowardly. Beyond the unconstitutionality of it all, @GovAbbott 's decrees seem designed to intentionally confuse citizens, and to allow him to deny responsibility for the consequences.

Patrick Svitek

@PatrickSvitek

4 years

Abbott gives blessing in KWTX interview, saying Wolff has "finally figured" out what locals can do w/ masks under statewide order: "Gov't cannot require individuals to wear masks. However, pursuant to my plan, local governments can require stores and business to require masks."

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I’m gobsmacked. This is the craziest one yet. They indicted a white guy for recruiting a leader of “Black Voices for Trump” to talk to a black election worker and saying the worker was “afraid to talk” “because he was a white man.” Seriously. Cue the twilight zone music.

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1 year

So impressed with my mom today. She agreed to make kolaches for my cousin’s wedding. By the end of the day, she’d churned out 230.

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@willchamberlain You're right, I do find that hard to believe.

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@CodeMonkeyZ I wonder who planted the fake pipe bomb? That whole saga is very informative on the false flag nature of the event.

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2 years

@JackPosobiec Left out “get a white friend” and “never ride with a mad woman.” That woman yelling “He got weed! He got weed!” is the best part.

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@cjblain10 Tell her to visit Texas next and see what she thinks of it.

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6 years

@iamfonda This is really bad advice.

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3 months

@CoxHerb @DeAngelisCorey This post has been up for an hour. Just so you understand, I will almost certainly be having a conference call tomorrow about whether to sue you in state or federal court and whether we seek an injunction, damages, or both. Whether this post stays up, or if you continue to

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2 months

Post controversial stuff in the middle of the night? Nah. Gonna delete that and post a mini highland cow instead.

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6 months

Bonkers. We now have state Supreme Court justices deciding it’s more fun to LARP as state Supreme Court justices than actually do their job. They make this pretend move and get a bunch of headlines but it can’t become anything but moot. It’s fake.

Adam Loewy

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6 months

What’s really goofy is SCOTUS doesn’t even need to rule for Trump to stay on ballot. They just need to take it and the stay remains and he’s on ballot. SCOTUS could just sit on it. #appellatetwitter #txlege

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Anybody remember when Ann Johnson fled Texas like a fugitive to obstruct the #txlege ?

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“The Senate trial was real. The House process was a sham and everyone now knows it.”

Dan Patrick

@DanPatrick

9 months

My response to Speaker @DadePhelan op-ed in the @BmtEnterprise : Dade Phelan orchestrated the House process from the outset. Phelan believed if the Senate convicts, the House was right - if the Senate acquits, then the Senate is corrupt. The full House heard the House General

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Amazing. @DadePhelan has his pants around his ankles right now. He has no idea what his plan is for this impeachment resolution. #txlege

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4 years

We need #txlege legislators next session to examine every regulation that was waived during the crisis and ask “If we didn’t need it then, do we really need it now?“

John Wittman

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4 years

.⁦ @GovAbbott ⁩ has waived certain trucking regulations so grocers like @HEB can expedite the delivery of resources throughout Texas. #COVID19 #txlege

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1 year

@lukemaciastx @DanPatrick @DadePhelan It's actually even worse than @DanPatrick realizes. They're not killing bills over typos. They've had a plot, since the beginning of session, to make up rules whole-cloth to kill things over routine practices.

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I’ll take this moment to remind everyone that this General Investigating Committee published numerous false statements about my clients’ cooperating with their investigation. They impugned the reputations of innocent staff members. #txlege

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5 years

@DrewWhiteTX @kimcooks4judge @TheTexanNews These gag orders are unconstitutional tyranny.

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4 years

@MQSullivan The electoral votes of Virginia can now go to whoever rigs the vote to run up the tally in LA and Chicago. Congrats.

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10 months

The most interesting thing I've learned in this trial (possibly the only thing I've learned, since I've read the documents) is that Mateer left the FBI meeting and went and reported to @GovAbbott 's office. That intrigues me. #txlege

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1 year

In summary, I just finished digging through the case law and the Paxton team is absolutely correct about Tex. Gov't Code 665.081 and its consistently held meaning by the courts. No removal for acts prior to election.

Tony McDonald

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1 year

As said by the Court of Civil Appeals, "the phrase 'prior to his election to office' would, and is intended to, apply to a re-election as well as election in the first instance, since the re-election of the same officer is in legal effect the same as an original election.

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5 years

@josh_hammer In my experience, the typical defense attorney is far superior to the typical government lawyer, but ymmv.

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1 year

Today a federal judge permanently enjoined enforcement of three unconstitutional statutes that were designed to prevent Texans from speaking out about the #txlege speakers race. I'm proud to have represented Robert Bruce, @BryanforHD2 , and Grayson County Conservatives.

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10 months

@RepStickland This attack is entirely political, by a pathetic group of people.

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1 year

In light of today's decision in Harvard/UNC, it is clear that Texas government must get out of the racial discrimination business. #txlege

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@RealEmirHan

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3 years

@Techno_Fog Thank you. It is not a big enough controversy that the Bush Family, with decades of direct business ties to the House of Saud, covered up Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks that happened on Bush’s watch.

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6 years

Just stopped a moment ago to say a prayer and be thankful for all of the FedEx and UPS (and USPS) delivery men who make the modern economy function. Can't imagine the stress those guys in Austin are under right now.

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@JackPosobiec I'm sure we paid to build that ridiculous house.

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4 years

I'm tired as hell of @GovAbbott 's phony-sophisticated "Well, if you read between the lines..." manner of decreeing laws. This is garbage. Either the rules are clear, and the he stands by them, or there are no rules.

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@MattMackowiak @TexasGOP

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3 years

@DonnaHowardTX Monarchy is more respectable. This is just a low rent dictatorship.

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@lawsuitreform Is this like that one time y’all didn’t have anything to do with the Paxton impeachment?

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6 years

@Forrest4Trees The Democratic Party was, and remains, the party of slavery.

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7 months

@ATRightMovies We’re on a mission from God.

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@LoewyLawFirm You know better than this Adam. This kind of take is very uncharacteristic of you. Just totally wrong on many levels.

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10 months

Notable that the House impeachment lawyers are trying to get Nate Paul statements in as "co-conspirator statements" and Dan Patrick is sustaining objections and rejecting the concept that NP is a co-conspirator. #txlege

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10 months

I have to apologize. I didn’t watch this until this morning because I thought it might be cringe. And it’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. Hilarious.

T-done

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10 months

Recap of #Paxtonimpeachment Day 7 by my new friend Bridget. Explains why we will be friends FOREVER! 🤣 Texas’ version of @daysofourlives #EatingOffCountertops #WeAllDerseveGranite

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2 months

It was a pleasure to present oral argument at the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans this morning along with @KenPaxtonTX ’s OAG in defense of Texans’ 2nd amendment rights.

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10 months

You know, I for one genuinely don’t care for disloyal backstabbers, regardless of the alleged purity of their motives.

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@lukemaciastx @KHancock4TX I’d like to tamper with his re-election. What arrogance.

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5 years

@jeffroe Did my part. I just gave Marianne a dollar.

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4 months

When the government comes to take your cannon, shoot back and overthrow them. Happy Texas Independence Day!

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1 year

@WadeMiller_USMC You should ask it about redistricting. It’s illegal to use race except when it’s mandatory to use race, in which cases it’s illegal not to use race.

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Nice little gem in a Texas Supreme Court decision today concluding school districts cannot hire lawyers on a contingent fee basis to try to increase local tax appraisals.

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4 years

We often think of soldiers, policemen, and firemen as heroic professions. And they are. But we’ll soon be reminded that those who work to keep society going: utility workers, truck drivers, delivery men, etc, are heroes too. Lots of good people will be putting themselves at risk.

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@ManoForStateRep There is no late train. Sorry.

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@FistedFoucault @YCFederation This idea there was no other way other than to surrender Eastern Europe to slavery is nonsense. We had troops in Italy. Churchill wanted to push up through Slovenia. Instead we followed Stalin’s demands, and came from the far west.

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@ASFleischman People who complain about it have no idea what the case was actually about.

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10 months

I'm a big believer in "primacy/recency." People remember the first thing they hear and the last thing they hear. In the House's case in chief, they first heard a 17-minute speech by a House member devoid of substance, and they last heard Hardin bungling resting his case. #txlege

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@charliegeren You admitted you didn't talk to a single witness. You're a lazy old man and should retire.

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9 months

No replies because they would all just tell him to resign.

Sen. Robert Nichols

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9 months

My statement on the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton:

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Parliamentarian Hugh Brady (working through his puppet, McDade Phelan) just unilaterally changed the House rules. Phelan just used a "practice note" which was written by Brady, not the House, to hold that the Speaker will refuse to refer the Senate's property tax bill. #txlege

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With a whimper not a bang. House attorney Rusty Hardin just bungled resting his case as the very last act of their presentation. #txlege

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10 months

This was all coming out of Bush-World. Amazing. #txlege

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3 years

One of my favorite @yct memories — blasting Rush Limbaugh over the intercom on UT’s west mall with a big banner that said “because we can!” RIP Rush. The GOAT of talk radio.

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@itsmikebivins @CaryCheshireTX LOL - the communists are against people giving free food away. Per the usual.

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