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LeftInTX's JournalJim Crow Bill Out of Committtee and into Full Senate
Senate Bill 7 would make sweeping changes to Texas voting by limiting extended early voting hours, prohibiting drive-thru voting and requiring Texans to provide proof of disability to qualify for mail-in voting.
After more than five hours of public testimony, largely in opposition, a Texas Senate committee on Friday night advanced a wide-ranging elections bill that would further tighten the state's already restrictive voting rules and clamp down on local efforts to make it easier to vote.
Senate Bill 7 — one of Texas Republicans’ priority elections bills — would limit extended early voting hours, prohibit drive-thru voting and allow partisan poll watchers to record voters who receive help filling out their ballots. It would also forbid local election officials from encouraging voters to fill out applications to vote by mail, even if they qualify.
They also would not be able to proactively send out applications to voters who do not request them — a practice that is commonly used by political parties. Texans would also have to provide proof of disability to qualify for mail-in voting under the bill.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/26/texas-voting-access-republican-legislature/
The State Affairs Committee did not even take public testimony into consideration.
Can't open Topics and Places. Nothing happens. Can't get into Texas Group etc.
Also can't like posts...
It's sooo bright!!!!! Snow blindness is real!!
I'm in my house..No drapes in my living room....
Gotta wear my sunglasses in my house...
First world problems!!!
Need to speak with someone old: Gilbert Glass Blowing Kit for Boys
Manual: https://glassian.org/Making/Gilbert/fcover.html (fonts are not original)
30 years, before he created the Home Atomic Energy Kit (remember that??), AC Gilbert marketed this Glass Blowing Kit for Boys.
I cannot imagine this. It's 1920: People are more afraid of fire and burns than they are now. Pumping stations for water were not as reliable. I have no idea if skin grafts were around etc etc.
What parent would purchase this?
I wonder if any were sold? Glass blowing requires 1,000 degree F...
There is a manual that came with the kit and it shows boys sitting at tables wearing shirts and ties while blowing glass as if they are doing something no more serious than drinking a glass of milk!
I wonder if any of these actually sold? (A tag some place said it was $10, but that is all I could find) The glass blowing kit is not in their 1950 catalog, so by then it was long gone.
I really can't find out much about this oddity.
I ran across this tonight and was a bit blown away...
Sure there were lots of dangerous products where the dangers were invisible as in the atomic energy kit, patent medicine, cigarettes, but a glass blowing kit for boys? 1920?
Spotted on I-10 this afternoon
File photo, but I was driving and it hit me right in the face! High visibility area!
In a courtroom today: An attorney turned into a cat!
https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1359207169091108864“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap
“I can see that,” responds judge
For those who do not have twitter
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/us/cat-filter-lawyer-zoom-court-trnd/index.html
Briscoe Cain is now Chair of House Elections Committee
This is a bill that he filed, HB 330. Is is a big effing mess!
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB00330I.pdf#navpanes=0
1. Elminates bond elections by requiring 2/3 passage and at least 20% election turnout
2. Wrong address on voter registration: Felony jail
3 ???
4. Proposition cannot exceed 400 characters
5. Punishes election judges for allowing provisional voting with criminal state jail felonies
6. Only voters who can't see or write can have voting assistance - providing assistance in other cases is punishable by jail.
7. Nursing homes who submit more than 5 vote by mail applications cannot vote by mail, instead the nursing home must be a polling site.
State Rep. Briscoe Cain was named chair of the House Elections Committee months after traveling to Pennsylvania to help the Trump campaign challenge the results of the 2020 election.
A conservative attorney who volunteered to help former President Donald Trump’s legal team as it attempted to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election will take the lead on election issues in the Texas House this year.
With Texas’ Republican leadership cataloguing “election integrity” as a top priority this legislative session, House Speaker Dade Phelan on Thursday named state Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, as the chair of the House Elections Committee. The panel, which has a Republican majority, typically considers legislation related to voting rules and election law.
Cain, who previously served on the committee, traveled to Pennsylvania in the days after Election Day to work with the Trump campaign. The campaign eventually filed a lawsuit alleging widespread issues with mail-in ballots in the state. A federal judge threw out the lawsuit, finding the president’s team provided “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations” that were not supported by evidence.
In a November tweet that no longer appears to be available on his account, Cain said he was heading to Philadelphia "to link up with a team of attorneys from across the country to fight for a fair and honest election." Local television station KHOU reported at the time that Cain was interviewing election workers and poll watchers.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/04/briscoe-cain-texas-house-election/
Watch Senate Redistricting hearings
This one is for South Texas, held today.
https://tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=49&clip_id=15325
Archives are here
https://senate.texas.gov/av-archive.php
List of upcoming hearings:
Since up to testify or just watch
https://senate.texas.gov/cmtes/87/c625/Regional-Hearing-Schedule-2021.pdf
John Cornyn could use some DU "love" on twitter -thank you
https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1353039210324910082Senator John Cornyn
@JohnCornyn
No, it’s takes unanimous consent. But you already knew that. BTW, if it is a good idea to impeach and try former Presidents, what about former Democratic Presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022? Think about it and let’s do what is best for the country.
Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Our plan will allow us to do President Biden’s nominations, COVID relief, and the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
As we said, we can get all three done, and we will.
Cornyn threatening to impeach past Democratic presidents...What a buffoon
Article (can't quote, hit paywall)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/23/senate-republican-john-cornyn-impeachment-trump-past-democratic-presidents
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