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Dear Editor of the Wall Street Journal,
I am writing you to demand a retraction of a statement in a
@WSJ
editorial entitled "Why Ken Paxton Was Acquitted" on September 17, 2023. The statement: "It's now obvious the fix was in from the start and that Mr Patrick lobbied his fellow
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🚨 MAJOR VICTORY for Harris County voters tonight!!! The Texas House passed my SB 1750, carried by
@BriscoeCain
, on 2nd reading to eliminate the Elections Administrator position & return the management of elections in Harris County BACK to the elected county clerk and tax
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I commend the decision by 16 plus of my colleagues in the Texas Senate for voting to acquit Attorney General
@KenPaxtonTX
on 16 articles of impeachment. Impeachment is the penultimate constitutional process that should be reserved for that pose a direct threat to the integrity of
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The Texas Senate, under the leadership of
@DanPatrick
, just passed the largest property tax relief bill in Texas history, unanimously with bipartisan support 30-0. SB 26 and SJR 2 are once-in-a-lifetime record 18 billion dollar property tax plan to cut homeowners, business
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🚨Texas Taxpayers WIN🚨
The Supermajority of Texans have voted FOR Prop. 4, the record $18.1 billion property tax reduction package!! Prop. 4 is currently one of the top two Props and results are well above 80% and I’m very proud of this outcome!
The constitutional provision
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I am speaking out with
@CreightonForTX
against
@LinaHidalgoTX
's plan for a 2nd lockdown of the economy.
@GovAbbott
is right to resist these calls as this would have tremendous negative impact. Data from TMC showing that hospitalizations has been flattening since June 28.
#txlege
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Today, Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
claimed
@Glenn_Hegar
’s letter about defunding
@ConstableHeap
PCT 5 budget is a “threat to democracy,” and in the past, she’s claimed a random SOS election audit was a “dangerous assault on voters and democracy.” The REAL assault on democracy is
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@DanCrenshawTX
.
@DanCrenshawTX
is right and
@LinaHidalgoTX
is wrong...this is not a "precipice of disaster". Here are the real numbers showing occupied ICU beds in Harris County have been flat...254 on April 8 and 244 on June 10. (net 10 fewer)
#txlege
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Filed 7 election bills, 5 joint authors on most all
@SenatorBirdwell
@CreightonForTX
@loiskolkhorst
@SenatorBobHall
@DrSchwertner
to strengthen voter roll election integrity.
#SB1111
stops reg at private P.O. Boxes
#SB1113
SOS holds funds to clean roll &
#SB1114
roll cross checks
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Harris County must return elections back to the elected officials per
@SupremeCourt_TX
decision! SB 1750 will go into effect on September 1st as the bill originally intended for an orderly transition.
SB 1750 was drafted after serious election irregularities during the 2022
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Also laid out
#SB581
in Local Gov, Homeowners Religious Freedom Act, providing protection for homeowners who wish to place certain religious displays on the door. The HOA doesn't own your property, you do!
#txlege
@loiskolkhorst
@CreightonForTX
@RepSchofield
@txvalues
@TXCatholic
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🚨The
@TXsecofstate
released their final 2020 general election audit report in Texas. Harris County has Irresponsible chain of custody break on 185K votes plus Unconscionable 17 MBB created w/124,630 vote records to have no documentation at all
@HarrisVotes
! MALFEASANCE!
#txlege
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Welcome news from
@KenPaxtonTX
’s AG office! They’ve announced the formation of the 2021 Texas Election Integrity Unit which will monitor Nov. elections - particularly local elections. SB47 (the audit bill) would be a great addition to ensure future voter integrity!
#txlege
@TPPF
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Looks like the Harris County Election challenges leftover from the 2022 November election fiasco are headed to the 1st trial in August. We're going to finally find out what actually happened in Harris County that kept millions of sheets of ballot paper in the County warehouse,
Trial to begin for the first of 21 GOP lawsuits targeting Harris County's November election results
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Federal Judge ruling beats back
@JoeBiden
Administration’s aggressive attack on energy industry by injoining his moratorium on Oil and Gas onshore and offshore leases ...Good legal action by Atty Gen
@KenPaxtonTX
as it saves Texan’s jobs & business revenue!
@TPPF
@TXOGA
#txlege
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Harris County “leaders”
@LinaHidalgoTX
@CDMenefee
,
@RodneyEllis
,
@sylvesterturner
, Et. Al are already refusing to follow new laws returning Harris County Elections back to Elected officals, but wait…that’s nothing new! They already haven’t been following the election code anyway
Happening Now: Harris County Judge Hidalgo speaks at a news conference with Attorney Christian D. Menefee about the county’s legal strategy following the state advancing election bills targeting Harris County and reducing local control.
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🚨Breaking news! Public Information Request revealed by
@WayneDolcefino
, show 115 Harris County polls turned away voters in the Nov. 8th 2022 election!!
Late openings, lack of ballot paper, election machine failures, you name it... it happened and that's why Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
Hidalgo's Latest Meltdown...
Shocking new internal Harris County election records show voters at more than 115 polling locations were turned away when they tried to vote last November.
WATCH/SHARE to spread the word.
LINK -- >
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PRESS RELEASE: Discrepancy in 3 voting counts from Harris County
@CGHollins
. Still no answer. Daily Record of EV shows 1,090,445 votes, while the number reported by Clerk to the
@TXsecofstate
is 1,081,265, &
@HarrisVotes
roster shows 1,092,521. Which is correct?
#txlege
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One of the most frustrating aspects of Harris County’s botched Nov. 8th election was the refusal of Elections Administrators Office and County Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
refusing to answer questions about why the November 8 election was a fiasco!! Instead, Harris County Officials used
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Harris County must release all information on the hiring of the firm Brady Peavey that was contracted to oppose bills, including Points of Order, in the Legislature by Office of
@TXAG
.
Senator
@mayes_middleton
and myself requested this information months ago under legislative
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Thousands of voters were turned away from the polls in Harris County during the botched Nov. 8 election because the Harris County Elections Administrator couldn’t or wouldn’t get enough ballot paper from their
@HarrisVotes
warehouse to the polls for voters to vote on, and that
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Today, based upon an opinion letter I sent to Attorney General Paxton (), the AOG filed a lawsuit against the clearly Unconstitutional Universal Basic Income, UBI, program started by the leftist progressive majority on Harris County Commissioners Court.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Harris County Over Illegal “Guaranteed Income” Welfare Scheme:
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You never know who you'll get to visit with at an
@alec_states
National policy Summitt! Former Speaker
@NewtGingrich
gave a succinct "80-year-old History Professor's" review of what needs to happen in American politics, and it starts with Conservative officeholders going on the
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This is the
@HarrisVotes
preliminary election reconciliation form signed by Primary Judge at Central Count. ITS A MESS! 2 different Provisional Ballot
#s
, different mail ballot
#s
, and more Ballots than voters! (-#) What is going on? Order w/ no Rs or
@TXAG
? STOP!
@HarrisCountyRP
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This is well worthy of a Texas Rangers investigation as Harris County property & government social media accounts were used to make a political endorsement in a Primary Election??
This is a series of serious NO NO's that Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
should never have done! I cannot
Inbox: A criminal complaint against Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo for using county property, resources to promote a Democratic primary candidate challenging DA Kim Ogg has been referred to The Texas Rangers.
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The Texas
@TXsecofstate
election audit recognizes the obvious HUGE problems with Harris County’s November elections that lead to legislative changes, my SB 1750 which eliminated the Elections Administrator position and returned elections back to the elected County Clerk and Tax
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You never know who you’ll welcome into the Texas Capitol. Pretty cool seeing former Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
walking in at the East entrance. The “PM” asked if I had been passing any good bills lately and I said YES, we just passed a couple of my Senate Bills cracking down on
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@US5thCircutCt
stays another misguided lower court federal judge activist ruling on appeal by
@KenPaxtonTX
.
@GregAbbott_TX
’s proclamation is the current election law in the state! Will be upheld..
#txlege
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A special thanks to Lt. Governor
@DanPatrick
for calling out bad election practices with me in Harris County as far back as October 2020, and being a steadfast supporter of election reforms including SB 1, SB 1750, and SB 1933. The President of the Senate with bipartisan
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I filed SB 2329 & SJR 86 to let Texans decide on Daylight Saving Time with
@RepSchofield
(HB 417 & HJR 22) let’s have one time in Texas! The Daylight Saving Time debate has been a hot-button public policy issue for over 100 years. If this bill passes, the public would vote on
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.
@MattressMack
&
@WayneDolcefino
were denied 6 times when trying to get public information from
@HarrisVotes
on the botched Nov. 8 election, as Harris County officials used the Public Information litigation exemption, which delays releasing records to the public by seeking an
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Like millions of Americans, I got a chance to watch “What is a woman” by
@MattWalshBlog
this weekend because
@elonmusk
overrode the censorship apparatus at Twitter, which was initially blocking the release of the film entirely.
The story line Matt uses is as the father of two
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🚨TAXPAYERS WIN! I filed the largest property tax cut bill in Texas history! All residential and commercial real property taxpayers WIN! All 5.72 million homestead owners WIN with an eye-popping average 41.5% savings of $1373 year-after-year! This is a RECORD property tax cut
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There are sadly now four school districts that Attorney General
@KenPaxtonTX
has actually had to file suit on about electioneering, which are
@friscoisd
,
@dentonisd
,
@denisonisd
, and
@CastleberryISD
. You may ask why suits? It's because the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals
I’m suing two more school districts for illegal electioneering. I am extremely troubled by this pattern of government officials engaged in illegal electioneering. These are government employees charged with the education of our children. They must respect our laws. I will
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JUST IN
@TXAG
files Writ of Mandamus on Harris Co Com Court Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
& EA Clifford Tatum in Supreme Court of Texas NO.22-0997, that ordered voting should only occur by TEC & post 7pm cast votes segregated. Writ says including these votes in canvas isn’t lawful
#txlege
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@DanCrenshawTX
@LinaHidalgoTX
@hollyshansen
@JeremySWallace
@EmpowerTexans
@cjblain10
@jaspscherer
@GrooganFox26
@KPRC2Robert
@TedABC13
@ASchneider_HPM
@radioguycliff
Here's more DSHS data showing that statewide we are not on
@LinaHidalgoTX
's Covid "precipice". Viral R0 factor down to 0.9/0.95 (.) This could explain why we have not been hit hard yet from 60K protest on Discovery Green 6/2, but must wait and see.
#txlege
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I joined on Sen.
@Mayes_middleton
for a public information request sent to Harris County Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
and to determine why Harris County officials hired outside counsel apparently to provide research to be used as Points of Order in the House to kill good government
Harris County hired the lawfirm Brady & Peavy to influence the outcome of legislation—and this very same firm was likely involved in efforts to kill conservative bills in the legislature through procedural points of order on the House floor.
Yesterday Senator Bettencourt and
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Harris County voters should have confidence in their elections, but its been shaken by two consecutive Election Administrators who botched both elections in 2022.
•The first EA resigned after she “found” 10,000 votes after the polls closed and released a statement about it at
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The Texas Senate passed 22-8 to set the ballot language to prevent voters from being misled in the voting booth. For example, the City of Austin was called out by the TX Supreme Court for using deceitful ballot language on a police staffing ordinance and this bill will fix that!
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Harris Co Constables, et al & Public turned out in 100s to say "STOP Defunding" law enforcement to Comm Court on agenda item by DA
@kimoggforda
! Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
said she came against Dr's advise & left in <1 hr to "Boo-Birds" that indicates lots of folks coming back in 2wks!
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The City of Amarillo failed to pass a $275 million bond to finance a convention center expansion project in 2020. The bond was outright rejected but the City Council & Mayor of Amarillo ignored the will of the voters and issued a NON-VOTER-APPROVED $260 million Tax Anticipation
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Another frivolous lawsuit by Harris County against the State of Texas!!! My SB 1750 is about performance NOT politics! This bill is the result of election fiascos due to Elections Administrators and other appointed elected officials. The fact that the first Harris County
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Major progress on Election Reform for Harris County! My pair of two bills that return the County Election Administration back to the elected County Clerk and Tax Assessor-Collector with
@TXsecofstate
oversight, SB 1750 and SB 1933, were signed by Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
and go
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Great SCOTUS appt by
@POTUS
of
#amyconeybarrett
Will Sen Judiciary Dems
@SenFeinstein
&
@SenatorDurbin
attack her Catholic Faith & say she has too much "Dogma" in her 1st hearing? Bring it on if Dems are stupid enough to repeat!
@TXCatholic
@AllenWest
@WesleyHuntTX
@TroyNehls
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The first ever
@TXsecofstate
oversight elections bill is now in law in Harris County! SB 1933 and SB 1750 will restore confidence to Harris County elections by returning election administration, back to the elected Harris County County Clerk and Tax Assessor-Collector. These
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How does
@LinaHidalgoTX
's offer of $100 for a first time covid shot not violate the Texas Constitution Sec 52 (a)? Judge Hidalgo can't grant public money to an individual! As someone who has watched over the taxpayers' money for decades...this is ripe for fraud too!
#txlege
@TPPF
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I wholeheartedly support Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
calling for an investigation of Harris County Elections! This is the WORST Election Day ever by a major county elections department that I’ve seen in my LIFE! No ballots at poll means voter suppression
@TXsecofstate
@TXAG
@TxDPS
#txlege
I'm calling for an investigation into the widespread problems with the Harris County elections last Tuesday.
The allegations of election improprieties in our state's largest county may result from anything ranging from malfeasance to blatant criminal conduct.
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TEXAS TAXPAYERS WIN!!! After 20 years of fighting for Property Tax relief alongside Lt. Governor
@DanPatrick
, the “Texas-sized” Record $18 billion Tax reduction bill finally passes!
Under the leadership of Speaker
@DadePhelan
, the Texas House passed my Texas “two-step” SB 2,
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DISCUSSION OVER! Harris County Property Taxpayers WIN! And will save a quarter Billion dollars!! Kudos to Commissioners
@RJackCagle
and
@TomSRamsey2
for their Proactive stance against Leftist Progressive Majority’s 10.8% property tax revenue increase.
@TPPF
#txlege
@jen_rice_
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My second 2nd Election Administration Reform Bill has passed the Texas House and Senate! With the passing of SB 1933, the
@TXsecofstate
has oversight over Elections Administration issues by filled factual complaints. This means that following SB 1750’s return of Harris County
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Big day in Texas Senate! Two big bills
#SB10
to ban taxpayer funded lobbying &
#SB28
the Charter School Equity Act pass to the Texas House. Thanks to Lt Gov
@DanPatrick
for your leadership and support!
#txlege
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It should never be hard to get public records as it’s the public’s information! My SB 1910 was adopted as a floor amendment to HB 3033 and passed by the Senate unanimously. SB 1910 ensures that information related to elections in possession of a local government body
The Harris County GOP stands with Alex Mealer in the fight for election integrity.
The Democrat-led Harris County government uses taxpayer dollars daily to prevent candidates and voters from learning the truth about why the November 2022 election was so unlawful and mismanaged.
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Save America Pres. Donald J. Trump supports SB47, my election audit bill that passed Senate 17-14. Lt. Gov.
@DanPatrick
refers it in
#txlege
. Bill starts from October 2020 w/ Harris Co having 1884 more votes than on roster! Trump Texas is red but still have to stop the cheating!
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Congrats to new HISD trustees
@BridgetforKids
&
@kendallbaker1
for strong campaigns! Voters heard their HISD reform message! Volunteers walked blocks & messages from me, Cindy Siegel
@HarrisCountyRP
,
@DanCrenshawTX
, &
@willhickman
helped. New HISD board members’ focus is on kids!
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I was SHOCKED to hear universities like Texas Tech hiring their biology department on a "woke" basis and not treating all students equally, and per Senate Education Chair Sen.
@CreightonForTX
, who authored SB 17, people were having to sign loyalty oaths to DEI (Diversity, Equity,
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True to form Harris Co Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
w/a room full of folks complaining about Tues election fiasco tries to blame
#txlege
, 1/6,
@TomRamsey
, anybody BUT HER appointed EA Clifford Tatum! BUT,
@TXsecofstate
,
@TxDPS
,
@HarrisCountyDAO
on it!
#SB220
filed !
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Socialism at its "finest" is what this latest Harris County "Uplift Harris" Program is all about!
Harris County Commissioners' Court met in closed session with County Attorney
@CDMenefee
to detail a program of qualifications to directly "gift" up to 2000 families a $500/monthly
A program to offer no-strings-attached monthly cash payments to hundreds of low-income families in Harris County could launch by Friday.
#khou11
@AdamBennettKHOU
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.
@DanPatrick
is right that
@AmericanAir
should have read
#Sb7
before following
#CancelCulture
.
@Microsoft
&
@MichaelDell
doing same thing?
@SenBryanHughes
will discuss with me at 4:20 PM on
@KSEV700
.
#txlege
#readthebill
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These
#prohamas
protesters tried to occupy the
@UTAustin
campus but this is our State Capitol not New York City! As I predicted at 10am () our
@UTAustinPolice
,
@utsystem
, and
@TxDPS
would NOT allow this in Texas!!
More than 20 arrests and no lawn occupied
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NEW:
@hollyshansen
reports the Harris County Elections Administrator, Clifford Tatum NO-SHOWS a deposition, and that is a HUGE problem for Harris County Government to explain WHY as the public still doesn't know the TRUTH of what really happened in the Nov 8th, 2022 election
A certificate of non-appearance was filed after Harris County Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum failed to appear for a scheduled deposition with an attorney representing 17 Republicans in election contests.
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ISDs must be careful to NOT violate the law or the spirit of the law in coming anywhere close to providing a pecuniary interest as an incentive for students, families, or employees to vote in any election. Apparently that’s what
@FortBendISD
has done with a "jean’s day" program
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TEXAS "House rules have been selectively weaponized to selectivity punish individual members. Our Parliamentarians have played an outsized role in the legislative process..." says Representative
@TomOliverson
, candidate for Texas Speaker of the House.
This has been an open
Harris County must release all information on the hiring of the firm Brady Peavey that was contracted to oppose bills, including Points of Order, in the Legislature by Office of
@TXAG
.
Senator
@mayes_middleton
and myself requested this information months ago under legislative
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Thanks Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
for making election integrity a priority! Thanks to
@DanPatrick
for using priority low SB #’s for
@SenBryanHughes
too! Honored to discuss my "Integrity-7" Voter Bills w/ House Election Chair
@BriscoeCain
& Gov Monday AM at my Senate Office...
#txlege
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$16.5 BILLION dollar unprecedented property tax relief in Senate Tax Plan!
@LtGovTX
Patrick and I gave the good news today for 5.72 million homestead Texas Taxpayers. Homesteads will get eye popping savings! Homesteads get $70K homestead exemption will save an average of $798
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1st phase of
@TXsecofstate
audit of big 4 counties is out! Shows Harris County NOT reviewing 3,063 possible non-US citizen voter records identified. Why is
@HarrisVotes
not doing their job? We started taking non-citizens off the rolls 20 years ago in Harris County.
#txlege
@TPPF
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Not unexpectedly a Travis County Judge took up the cause of Harris County trying to block my Election reform bill, SB 1750, from going into effect. The
@TXAG
office filed an appeal with the Texas Supreme Court. Clearly even a simple bill to transfer election duties back to
District Judge Blocks State Law Returning Harris County Elections to Elected Officials, Stayed on Appeal
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Great first day in Senate State Affairs! We voted out two great bills. First was SB 2, which I co-authored with
@SenBryanHughes
and restores the penalties for voter fraud back to a felony. The second was SB 559, per
@TXCatholic
testimony, “We support this bill to protect the
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The Texas Public information Act, PIA, desperately needs an overhaul in the 21st Century because instead of giving out public info regularly, the system is used to block or delay nearly every request! Jim “
@MattressMack
” McInvgale testified in
#txlege
FOR my Senate bill, SB 1579
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Today I laid out SIX more Election Integrity bills in Senate State Affairs, Chaired by
@SenBryanHughes
. All six bills are based on election management performance-not politics. Harris County is not too big to fail-but too big to ignore. Compelling testimony from Houston City
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On
@NEWSMAX
@GovAbbott
& DA
@kimoggforda
ask Texas Rangers to investigate voter irregularities in Harris County based on civil and criminal complaints filed with
@TXsecofstate
&
@HarrisCountyDAO
! 1k+ complaints to RChair
@cindySiegel5
. Public trust in elections must be restored!
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Alan Vera was a tremendous example of what being a Citizen Solider is all about, and today on the Floor of the Texas Senate we honored his life. After serving as an Airborne Ranger in Vietnam, and completing 22 nighttime jumps behind enemy lines, he brought his sense of service
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Thanks Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
for making election integrity a priority this session! Proud to work w/ Senate State Affairs Chair
@SenBryanHughes
& House Election Chair
@BriscoeCain
to start discussing my "Integrity-7",
#SB7
&
#HB6
as it all starts with voter roll integrity...
#txlege
Election integrity is an emergency item this session.
Thank you to
@TeamBettencourt
and
@BriscoeCain
for their leadership on this important issue & drafting legislation to protect free & fair elections in Texas.
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Today I spoke out supporting former Judge
@Erinlunceford
’s election challenge. The Nation’s 3rd largest County
@HarrisVotes
just held a 3rd world election! No other county in America couldn’t or wouldn’t get thousands ballots to the polls for voters to cast their ballot on Nov. 8
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With
@kevinomccarthy
out the next Republican Speaker of the U.S. House must dedicate the resources and time necessary to re-establishing "regular-order" by passing the 12 appropriation bills Congress needs to reestablish control over the Federal Bureaucracy, or this decade long
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I will be filing legislation to change the
@HoustonISD
Board of Trustees to 5 districts and 4 at-large seats - along with other reforms. ICYMI: Houston ISD Trustees Have Made a Mockery of the Texas Open Meetings Act With Multiple Violations
#txlege
#txed
What a joke. HISD leadership is a disaster. Their self-centered ineptitude has failed the children they are supposed to educate. If ever there was a school board that needs to be taken over and reformed it’s HISD. Their students & parents deserve change.
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RECORD # of dozen+ election challenges filed because of botched
@HarrisVotes
Nov 8 Election w/ many Voter Irregularities. MIN 3k+ voters not having paper ballots to vote on at polls. That’s Voter SUPPRESSION! Up to Courts to inspect records & illuminate the truth!!
#txlege
@TPPF
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The leftist progressives at Harris County and their hiring of specialized firms to lobby the Legislature aganist need reforms using taxpayer money of course. This firm got an unbidden $49k contract right below the $50k bid limit.
Sen.
@mayes_middleton
and I originally sent a
Texas Senators
@TeamBettencourt
and
@mayes_middleton
sent letters to Harris County seeking records and communications regarding the county hiring a law firm at taxpayer expense that specializes in election law litigation and parliamentary procedure.
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House Elections Committee Chairman
@Reggie4Tx
posts my SB 1750 which will eliminate the Harris County Elections Administrator office in Harris County for Thursday! The bill returns all election duties BACK to the elected County Clerk and Tax-Assessor. Ag Chair
@BriscoeCain
will
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Just filed $17.6 BILLION dollars of Property Tax Relief with $100,000 homestead exemptions with my first co-author
@TanParkerTX
, author of SB 5 last session. Expect quick action by the membership and Lt. Governor
@DanPatrick
.
#txlege
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As everyone knows by now, Harris County’s recent Nov. 8th, 2022 election was filled with Thousands of election irregularities causing a lack of public confidence in the results and a record 21 election contests being filed. One of many issues was Texas Organizing Project filed a
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It’s the first day of trial for the first of the Harris County election contests. The public has the right to know about what really happened in the November 2022 election, like why the EA couldn’t or wouldn’t get millions of ballot paper sheets to the polls for voters to vote
Defendant’s attorney says these experts are not experts but are GOP activists.
Shows what he calls the “PR” team for plaintiff including
@TeamBettencourt
and attorney Andy Taylor, who is also attorney for Harris County GOP.
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Texas Comptroller
@Glenn_Hegar
pushes back against Leftist Progressive Harris County Judge
@LinaHidalgoTX
for defunding
@HCpct5
and
@ConstableHeap
by more than $2 million! Harris Co Comms Court can’t adopt a tax rate higher than the No-New-Revenue-Tax rate until funding is fully
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Read presser:
@TXsecofstate
audit div Harris County election audit ltr on the MASSIVE breach of chain-of-custody! Makes Harris co. Aug lawsuit on “randomness”of 2022 audit really “frivolous” as they clearly broke Federal and State record retention laws!
#txlege
@tppf
@Heritage
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Today I am laying out FIVE Election Integrity bills in Senate State Affairs, Chaired by
@SenBryanHughes
, that I filed in response to the multiple botched elections by Harris County. Right now State Affairs is hearing from dozens of Harris Co. election workers testifying on my 5
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Welcome development to get to the truth of what really happened with the bid-rigging case of the Elevate Strategies contract in Harris County.
@HarrisCountyDAO
Kim Ogg has the authority and has just announced that the
@TXAG
will take over the case, so this means that this
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Why did
@facebook
flag and limit this pro-life post/picture for possibly causing a "negative experience"?!? There is absolutely nothing distasteful about this post!
#txlege
#sb23
@SenCreighton
@SenBryanHughes
@AngelaPaxtonTX
@loiskolkhorst
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The Texas Senate doesn’t leave ANY homeowner behind! Today the Texas Senate rocketed out $17.6 Billion of Property Tax Relief to all Texas Taxpayers, both businesses and homeowners with this biggest Property Tax Relief plan in the State’s history! My Texas 2-step, SB 1 & SJR 1
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I want to say as the Chairman of the Senate Local Government Committee, this statement by
@Lujan405
, the Director of Special Programs at Denton ISD, is absolutely electioneering! Using state resources for political purposes should have never occurred at
@dentonisd
, or any other
An email sent to Borman Elementary School staff in Denton County urges all employees vote in the GOP primary against unnamed pro-voucher candidates.
#txlege
It includes this statement from Diboll ISD Superintendent Brian Bowman:
“Texas educators do not come together & vote on
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Read my press release on
#SB220
Election Marshals with
@ValoreeforTexas
@TXsecofstate
needs tools to CLEAN UP voting violations across the state and Judges need to be ready for election issues. Citizens should have absolute confidence in their elections. No more Harris Cos!
@TPPF
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🚨Alert: Judge orders new election on the closest and most recent election contest from 2022! To all the naysayers who said there was nothing wrong with the former Harris County EAO, Election Administration Office, and the abominable election they held, you were WRONG! This is
breaking: a judge has ordered a new election in harris county's nov. 2022 180th district court judicial race that GOP candidate tami pierce lost by 449 votes to democratic judge dasean jones. jones is expected to appeal the ruling, his attorney confirmed.
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Great job
@CreightonForTX
passing
#SB1
education savings accounts! I have been working on passing school choice under Lt. Gov
@DanPatrick
’s leadership since 2015 voting for and passing out school choice bills from the Texas Senate and SB 1 is by far the best universal school
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: The Texas Senate Passed Universal School Choice. Today, after over 8 hours of debate, the Texas Senate passed SB 1, providing universal school choice to Texas students. This legislation empowers parents and unleashes the potential of Texas education.
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6 Indictments by Harris Co Grand Jury are a BIG step by DA
@kimoggforda
in restoring public integrity by cleaning up corrupt contract! The indictments of 3 employees of
@LinaHidalgoTX
proves
@RJackCagle
Q/A righteous opposing it w/ myself & county observers questioning it in 2021
Raid in process on corrupt
@Elev8Strategies
contract by TX rangers
@TxDPS
on admin Harris Co bldg + multiple sites. Called out
@LinaHidalgoTX
on 9/9/21. Was appalled b/c
@UTHealthHouston
was the real lowbid & qualified.
@AdrianGarciaHTX
@RodneyEllis
@TomSRamsey2
@RJackCagle
@TPPF
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Thanks
@Govabbott
! TX Taxpayers thank you for putting prop tax relief on special session call. You're right
@TexasHDC
must
#getbacktowork
before July 22nd or
#SJR4
wont be on Nov Ballot for voter approval. 1.9M over 65 homeowners will have to wait another yr for prop tax relief..
The Texas Senate unanimously passed nearly $750 million in property tax relief over the next four years.
Thank you
@TeamBettencourt
for your leadership.
Dems who fled to DC are holding up this relief while wasting taxpayer dollars on their political junket.
#getbacktowork
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I filed SB 1750 with
@BriscoeCain
filing the companion, HB 3876, that will return management of elections back to the County Tax Assessor & County Clerk for counties with populations over one million! SB 1750 will help restore confidence to the voters after multiple election
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Harris County dropped their frivolous lawsuit against my SB 1750,
@TXsecofstate
and
@TXAG
which I called back on July 6, 2023 a frivolous lawsuit and a waste of taxpayer money and time. SB 1750 gave elections back to the elected officals,
@harriscotxclerk
, and
@HarrisCountyTAC
!
Read my official statement over Harris County’s Frivolous lawsuit against SB 1750.
SB 1750 is the bill that returns elections back to Harris County elected officials, County Clerk and Tax-Assessor.
#txlege
@jen_rice_
@TPPF
@HarrisCountyRP
@TexasGOP
@TomSRamsey2
@SenBryanHughes
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The "groom", Chancellor John Sharp hamming it up with
@GovAbbott
,
@whitmire_john
,
@TxChuy
and the "Taxman" (aka me) before his wedding to radiant bride, the now Mrs. Diana Sharp, a former constituent of mine. The three Senate "Amigos" were "men of distinction" in the wedding
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Mr. Garcia is paying $1944.85 43.4 % more in four years in property taxes every year which is nearly $500 per child. This is bad public policy and what is worse is he will pay this every year perpetuity. This is why all Texans need property tax relief.
@GregAbbott_TX
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👀Eye-popping numbers for Property Tax Relief in the Texas Senate Plan! $1250 - $1450 per year for 5.72 Million Texas Homesteads, see the numbers in the press release! The Senate’s “Texas Two-Step” property tax plan, my SB1 & SJR 1 provides a $100k exemption with permanent relief
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