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Seaver, is there any sort of check to make sure that the alleged fraud isn't actually happening? What happens if I come back from my conference meeting to find that my deskmate has voted against my wishes?
From all appearances--based only on the video--it looks like vote time is a total vote-grabbing feeding frenzy, but I'm willing to believe that there's a fair system at play.
Are you actually telling me that the cross-party button poking that the video caught was actually a Republican rep doing his Democrat colleague a favor and voting the way the Dem requested, regardless of how his party wants the outcome of the vote to go? If so, the Texas Legislature is a paragon of integrity.
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First off the vote was on a bill which was nothing more than posturing. It was on adding the new Genital Warts vaccine as required for public schools. Our Governor already used an executive order to make it mandatory, it was just a posturing vote to try to send the Gov. a message to let the legislature do it's job.
The penalty one faces for voting for someone else against their wishes is pretty harsh. (S)He is kicked out of all of the councils (s)he sits on, and faces being booted off the podium during any debate (Chair powers), which effectively makes him no more than an ass in a chair.
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Seaver, you have done a good job of explaining why it is happening. I understand the necessity. The "news" report was trying to stir up controversy and that's what this is about.
They should change the rules because they are clearly violating them.
And yes, Republicans and Democrats trust each other enough to vote for one another.
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Thank you. Yes, there is partisanship here as well, but it's much less so. There are attempts to filibuster, and even one instance of a Dem portraying Rep's as racist if they don't reinstate the Robin Hood Tax (it's a LONG story), but it's not nearly so heated as the federal gov. Once again, I've pointed out the punishments that can befall a Rep. who votes for someone against their wishes, or votes incorrectly purposefully for someone else. One vote on a bill is not worth losing any respectability or power you have in the House.