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srothstein, I think you might have misunderstood the article and/or the graphs. A "win" is when a legislator voted the same way as the outcome of the bill (passed or defeated). The contents of the bill are irrelevant. When the Democrat minority has more "wins" than the Republican majority, something is seriously wrong.

For example, on campus carry, the Senate Dems vote no to prevent the 21 vote rule from succeeding. So, let's say the vote is 20 to 11. A "win" in that scenario is the 11 votes, because the measure was defeated. So Senate "victories" are sometimes because of the rules. But the House is clearly not that way. There are 98 Republicans and 52 Democrats. So how is it that the Democrats "win" 94% of the time and the Republicans only "win" 78% of the time? It has to be because either the Dems love Republican bills or some Republicans are voting with the Dems.

Given the overwhelming majority that the voters have given them in the past two elections, is it unreasonable to think that Republicans would "win" more than Democrats?

baldeagle

suthdj wrote:Maybe the new Gov can step up to the plate and have some special sessions to insure things get voted on.

I expect that's exactly what will happen. The Lt. Gov. has experience with the frustration of the Senate, and the Governor seems determined to get his agenda passed. But legislators MUST pay a price for supporting Strauss, because it's patently obvious that he is frustrating the will of the voters.

baldeagle

Apparently Speaker Strauss bought the votes he needed - including my own legislator, Angie Chen Button. http://gonzalescannon.com/2015/01/13/we ... to-pay-up/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The more I learn the angrier I get.

baldeagle

You're not breathing. The Texas Tribune published an article entitled Red State - Purple Legislation.

So, here's the bottom line:

Texas Democrats exercised considerable influence over the legislative process during the 2013 regular session this spring, in contrast with their relative impotence last fall. While the November election results were unequivocally red - Democrats won a mere 12 of 31 senators and 55 of 150 representatives - the legislation passed during the session was decidedly purple.

In the state Capitol's west wing, House Democrats brokered a tacit alliance with the GOP's moderate/centrist conservative bloc, led by Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio. Liberal-Conservative Scores were calculated for legislators using their regular session roll call vote behavior (final 2013 House and Senate ideological scores and rankings will be published following the end of this summer's special session or sessions). These scores indicate that virtually all of the most prominent Republicans on the speaker's leadership team either were located in the GOP's moderate conservative wing (i.e., representatives with Lib-Con Scores significantly less conservative than those of more than one-half of their Republican colleagues) or, and less commonly, in its centrist conservative wing (i.e., representatives with Lib-Con Scores neither significantly more conservative or less conservative than over one-half of their fellow Republicans).

The proof?

: Dems still win in a red state

Here are the numbers:

jones-83legelibcon-20130613.pdf: Win percentages for every legislator; (171.78 KiB) Downloaded 73 times

The guy who introduced the carry bill, Stickland, has the second lowest win percentage of anybody in either House. Until you get rid of Straus, conservatives are going to continue to be frustrated. He and every one of his lieutenants need to be primaried in 2016.

EDIT: Thanks for the correction.

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