Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: News from the campaign trail in the race for Texas governor and from the U.S. Senate race.

Also, I examine a story about venue use that demonstrates why today’s Leftist Democrats simply cannot be trusted to govern in a free society.

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Four Texas School Districts Face Comptroller Spending Review.

Court officially dismisses Meurer’s appeal in Lubbock County phantom commissioner case, orders him to pay court cost.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Even CNN knows that little Jimmy ‘The Creep’ Talarico is lying on his solid past support for the defund the police movement.

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Texas Comptroller Huffines Reports State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $4.4 Billion in September – could give legislators the ability to provide more tax relief.

State reprimands Lubbock Justice of the Peace for ruling without trial notice, failing to cooperate with investigation – he lost in the primary and is out at the end of the year.

Rains County Justice of the Peace suspended after arrest for perjury in child support hearing.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: “Hundreds” of troops deployed to the Texas border with Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley after the U.S. Coast Guard came under fire, and returned fire, last Saturday.

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We remember the outbreak of the Texas Revolution on the Come and Take It Day with a bit of my 2022 interview about the Come and Take It canon with the late Gary Schurig.

Baker Hughes oil and gas rig count declines in Texas this week.

Several campaign trail stories:

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Paxton’s internal polling shows him still in the lead but it being very close. This matches other sources on internal polling that I have heard from. This is, as I’ve said for years, a 2- to 4-point Republican margin state. Republicans will lose however, if, and only if, they do not show up to vote in big numbers.

Media is exaggerating comments by Paxton, and seemingly planted in the press by an establishment/Cornyn operative, about Trump’s drag on the ticket. Things are what they are, Trump is at has lowest approval at present and the $4 plus gasoline is hurting the GOP everywhere. It’s more than eating into the GOP’s structural advantage in Texas.

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Comptroller Don Huffines is showing why I endorsed him for governor a few years back over Abbott. Instead of being politically reactive, as is Abbott most of the time, Huffines is proactive in moving the better government agenda.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: A big development out of a federal court jury trial over how Flock-style surveillance cameras have been used in Texas to violate fundamental constitutional rights of Texans. Don’t by the P.R. campaigns of your local police departments, helped along by Flock and others no doubt, that ignore basic problems with these cameras. And, if they tell you they are solely license plate readers you know they are lying to you.

Read: Bexar County’s License Plate Reader Surveillance Scheme Struck Down by Federal Jury. Real Americans who love and respect their constitution will be appalled at what was learned in this trial.

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Little Jimmy The Creep Talarico fundraises with America haters and Marxist/Socialists in New York City!

Anti-Wimp update: Sixth time not the charm for Harris Co. burglars. (Link posts at 5 p.m. Central.)

Dallas Fed employees do it again today (see yesterday’s show) in their Texas Service Sector Outlook report. This must stop… but never will. Read: Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms.

Texas homeowners protected from being denied insurance based on roof age.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The giant SpaceX Starship and Superheavy booster test from Starbase, Texas was a tremendous success. Space expert Robert Zimmerman joins us for a segment to explain what all happened this morning including new milestones reached.

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Anti-Wimp update: Austin homeowner kills would-be burglar who reached his bedroom.

An example, again, of how government employees appear to do most anything they can to harm Republicans, especially around election time. The Texas Manufacturing Report from the Dallas Fed is a frustrating example: Texas manufacturing activity accelerates sharply even as outlook moderates.

Governor Abbott Waives Dyed-Diesel Restrictions.

Oil and gas rig count for Texas fell last week.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Department of Public Safety messed up on forwarding voter registrations and it’s making publicity. It should not happen again and should not affect voters for the November election but it is of concern.

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Items from the campaign stack:

Texas [un]Ethics Commission Tables Proposed Lawmaker Per Diem Hike – see what can happen when pre-election light is shed upon it!

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: More on polling and the Texas electorate. If you missed Tuesday’s show, be sure to go and listen to the last half. Items I work from today include:

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Video released by Austin police appears to contradict attorneys’ account of ICE shooting. And yet local media covered the lawyer’s version as if it were from independent witnesses. Also, see this: ICE tried stopping Guatemalan man in Galveston before crash, arrest. Running from the cops leads to bad things.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: A listener asks: What are your thoughts on all major polls predicting a Talarico win? What do we make of that?  My answer, which I give in the second half of the show, is not from a point of cynicism but from experience and over four decades of working in the trenches in real campaigns. A political reality that shocks most politically active citizens, some never will believe it, is how uninvolved are many voters, even regular voters.

Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.

Governor Abbott Halts All State-Issued Permits for Data Centers Until Grid Audit Is Complete. Governor Abbott Directs TCEQ To Halt Data Center Permits.

Obama appointee Robert Pitman strikes again, going all 1970’s on us. Pitman substitutes himself for a legislature and demands Texas provide air conditioning to all convicts in prison by the end of 2029.

NOT SPONTANEOUS: Texas Socialist Network Mobilized Austin Anti-ICE Unrest on Sunday.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: More today on the Lubbock County Judge Curtis “Bowtie Bully” Parrish’s phantom commissioner pay scandal. It appears that someone may have promised the lawyer representing Parrish’s pretender of a commissioner, Mark Meurer, that county taxpayers would pay her fees. Meanwhile, today Lubbock County commissioners voted for a resolution asking the Texas Rangers to investigate the entire affair.

Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.

Texas GOP Closed-Primary Lawsuit Paused by Federal Judge. The legislature may indeed act but believe me that actions taken will come with a dollop of incumbent protection – I explain on the show.

Governor Abbott Announces $7.5 Billion Border Security Reimbursement to Texas from the Federal Government. More.

Texas annual job growth exceeds 159,000; unemployment rate at 4.4 percent in August.

The nation added oil and gas drilling rigs last week but Texas lost one.

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