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Direct Quote: Celia Hughes brings the visual arts to people with disabilities. http://www.texasobserver.org/direct-quote-helping-blind-experience-arts/ … pic.twitter.com/jEKK7s1xPW
#tbt 50 reasons not to secede in “If, Alas, You Do Secede” by Paul Coggins, July 9, 1982 http://bit.ly/1y9X03f pic.twitter.com/3Wyulq0wPM
Texas quarantine policy for health workers returning from West African nations may hamper the #Ebola fight. http://www.texasobserver.org/texas-ebola-policy-hamper-fight/ …
ICYM our post-election, pre-Lege panel last night, we have the audio for you here. http://www.texasobserver.org/listen-texas-observers-post-election-wrap/ … #txlege
And on that happy note, we’re all done here! Thanks for joining us tonight.
2 favorites.@cd_hooks says Texas candidates can duck reporters thru campaign b/c “the media does not really matter to what happens in Texas elections."
.@DonnaHowardTX says Dems need clearer vision of their values. Her idea: “Healthy families, equal opportunity and responsible gov’t."
Audience Q: "In my lifetime, are we ever going to have a 2-party system in Texas?” @cd_hooks: "I think in *my* lifetime, we probably will."
.@JasonVillalba says #txlege “will undoubtably act” in response to Denton’s fracking ban, knows bills are already in the works
.@EricaGrieder and Kronberg note GOP senators have reasons to like 2/3s rule, so it might survive in some form even w/ Patrick as lite guv
.@DonnaHowardTX agrees w/ @EricaGrieder that budget will be huge next #txlege. Fight will be between “filling holes” or cutting taxes.
.@DonnaHowardTX says Dems, even at big disadvantage, have enough members to build coalitions, esp on school finance
.@JasonVillalba says @VoteGiovanni isn’t only tea party rep who'll back Straus for speaker. “There is no speaker’s race. This race is over."
.@JasonVillalba says most folks support a voter ID law, but Kronberg says Texas’ law, nation’s “most restrictive," isn’t just any voter ID
.@JasonVillalba says GOP would benefit from “someone like a Marco Rubio" in the 2016 election. @EricaGrieder: “What about Ted Cruz?” <pause>
.@quorumreport’s Kronberg says he was “astonished" that Dems didn’t try to tie Abbott to Dan Patrick and his fiery language in the primary
.@JasonVillalba says Abbott engaged Hispanics in a new way, but it’ll take more elections to know if GOP made lasting inroads
.@cd_hooks agrees nothing Dems tried this year worked, and @HKronberg notes GOP had tech advantage over Dems this cycle, unlike '10 and ‘12
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