Pull on your mud boots, we're about to get knee deep in it.
It was election day yesterday in Texas. Primary election officially. But for all intents and purposes, in this state it was the general election. We now know who will be our new attorney general and lieutenant governor.
And we are in some deep doo-doo.
The biggest news was the toppling of current Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst by Tea Party candidate Dan Patrick. It really came as no surprise. Just needed the period at the end of the sentence which was yesterday's low-voter-turnout primary election. Out with the old old, in with the new old.
So what are we getting with Patrick? Well, if we have any different views on multiple policy or political positions, such as heart-felt perspectives regarding immigration and abortion, than we get nothing. Mr. Patrick has promised to push through his Tea Party positions, democracy be damned. He proudly and unashamedly proclaims he will minimize the role of Democrats in the Texas Senate by reducing their committee chairmanship numbers. I guess taking a page from the Putin School of Leadership.
Ken Paxton, another Tea Party politician, will be the state's new Attorney General, a position vacated by Greg Abbott, who is poised to be the next governor.
Paxton's endorsements included Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Patriots PAC (Tea Party), Texas Right to Life, Young Conservatives of Texas, Freedomworks, Grassroots America – We The People PAC, Kingwood TEA Party, Montgomery Tea Party, Texas Conservative View PAC, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, and Family Research Council Action PAC.
That's some company he keeps. This guy could be further right of our current AG. Didn't think that would be possible.
Where are my boots?
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