“And so, we’re Gonna make sure we come back with “more Republicans next time.”
-State Sen. Justin Holland (TX-33)
The entire content of this video comes off like frat boys having their ego stroked, which is what I am guessing Lauren Windsor wanted to acocmplish. She does lead them into their diatribes, but I need to point out, that any movement on voting reforms must be geared towards achieving more access and equality, irrespective of which party was to benefit.
Meaning of course as i see it, as an elected official, if I knew that improving access to voting might help my opponent, I am honor bound to support it regardless.
They talk a lot.
They are very concerned with Texas turning into Georgia electorally. More likely its transition will be similar to California.
Cole Hefner, (TX-5) sounds like he is willing to vote however to keep from getting primaried in his red red district.
But to a man, it comes back to putting more Republicans in the legislature. Holland seems to be upset with changing the election code in Harris County, but he does not say that it was illegal he says it invites fraud, which it does not. It invites participation.
But they are clear about their goals, and what they want the end result to be. Manipulating the voting process to benefit your party is not protecting democracy. Republicans can’t stand that higher participation leads to stronger Democratic results. So rather than win those votes, they would rather just keep them from voting.
It won’t work. Funny thing about taking away people’s rights-they tend to not only work harder to maintain them, they also tend to attract allies off of the fence while doing so.
I believe in two years we will be talking about Governor O’Rourke and will be doing so not because of only an increase in turnout, but a swing in the independent vote, who will no longer be able to tolerate Texas trying to rebuild the Confederacy.
-ROC
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