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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums...we are hearing a RUMOR Lt. Gov David Dewhurst is confirming that #SB5 did not pass effectively
UPDATE (2:02am): The Senate is caucusing right now and we are hearing a rumor that the Lt. Gov David Dewhurst is confirming that #SB5 did not pass, effectively.
See post here: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13693/did-the-texas-senate-really-pass-sb5
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)I don't have the one anymore that I had earlier.
TIA
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)Justitia
(9,316 posts)State house going wild!
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)I am hearing noise, what could be cheering, on the feed from the chamber
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Harris Democrats ?@harrisdemocrats 24m
#SB5 is dead. Lt. Gov. says vote happened at 12:03 after session had ended. #txlege
https://twitter.com/harrisdemocrats
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)Jeez, what a night!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Forrest Wilder ?@Forrest4Trees 24s
To be clear: the Senate is still caucusing, no decision has been announced officially and Senate is still in session. #txlege
https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/349789824095502336
PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Or if you're from Arkansas, make that a Perdue chicken.
Either way, it's one dead chicken.
And so is TX SB 5.
Thanks to Wendy Davis' awesome marathon performance which unfortunately fell a little short. But thanks to plan G in the back pocket, the Texas Senate Democrats prevailed using parliamentary tactics to keep the filibuster from ending. The gallery supplied their own delaying tactics by raising such a ruckus that the vote on the floor finally came after the Senate session turned into a pumpkin. Of course, the GOP somehow changed the vote log to reflect a vote before midnight, but apparently when the evidence of modified logs were quickly exposed on the Intertubes for everybody to see, the GOP obviously relented during a late session.
Along the way came some high drama punctuated by one Senator Leticia Van de Putte, who after burying her father joined the session and calmly made a simple parliamentary inquiry that set the gallery on fire:
The GOP never quite got control of them again.
This was beautiful and artful.
Copy from my post in another thread. Too lazy to type it in again.