Good morning, 

The establishment media wants us to believe Texas is going for Biden. That’s the background for today’s One Click Survey. What do you think?

Here is today's Texas Minute.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Wednesday, October 28, 2020
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• Far-left vandals in Austin smeared communist slogans on the walls of the city’s expensive public library – which also happens to be an early voting location. Jacob Asmussen has the story.
   
• “DON’T VOTE! FIGHT FOR REVOLUTION!” one message read, with an image of a hammer and sickle stained onto one of the doors. Another message read: “ELECTIONS NO! REVOLUTION YES!” The phrase is a common refrain of local communist and militant Marxist groups, having been posted and spray-painted before in other parts of the city.

• Video was released yesterday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas showing what appears to be an organized election fraud scheme in San Antonio. Brandon Waltens has the details.
     
• In the video, a political consultant is shown allegedly helping a voter change her vote from Republican John Cornyn to Democrat M.J. Hegar. Adding a twist to the story, the consultant seen in the video – Raquel Rodriguez – works for San Antonio Republican congressional candidate Mauro Garza (CD 20).
   
• Republican Party of Texas Chairman Allen West issued a statement saying the Texas GOP “wholeheartedly condemned” the actions in the video.
     
• After the video was released, Rodriguez released a statement in which she claimed she was just “playing along” as part of her own investigation against the Project Veritas journalists.
     
• “What’s shown in the video is shocking and should alarm all Texans who care about election integrity.” – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

• You know who’s not voting for M.J. Hegar? M.J. Hegar’s mother-in-law: "I know her personally and she is not a good person." The Washington Free Beacon has more.

• Late last week photos emerged on social media of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and a large group not wearing masks or social distancing at Globe Life Park in Arlington. Robert Montoya reports on the outrage expressed by citizens frustrated that Abbott’s statewide mask mandate remains in effect. 
      
• Don’t you people know King Greg’s dictates don’t apply to him and his cronies?

• State Rep. Dade Phelan of Beaumont was one of only three Texas House Republicans to receive a positive grade from Equality Texas, a pro-LGBTQ advocacy organization. As Brandon Waltens reports, Phelan is one of the Republicans rumored to be eyeing a run for the open speakership of the Texas House.
     
• A political staffer-turned-politician, Rep. Phelan has represented the Southeast Texas-based House District 21 in the Texas House since 2014. In his first session, Phelan earned a C on the Fiscal Responsibility Index. In subsequent sessions, however, his voting record declined to an F, falling to a dismal score of 49 after the conclusion of the Texas Legislature’s 86th session in 2019.
     
• So far, only two candidates have filed the necessary paperwork to be official candidates for House Speaker – both of them Democrats.

• Incoming State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Royse City) is refusing to commit to any candidate for the speakership of the Texas House, whether they are an official candidate or not. He describes the two factions that are forming within the House Republican caucus, and what it will take for one of them to secure his vote for their speaker candidate.
      
• Slaton explains that he wants a speaker candidate who will make substantive reforms to the operations of the House and has “articulated a plan to pass more conservative legislation.”
       
• “I ran for state representative due to corruption that existed in the Texas House, and I’m not going to start off my first term by supporting anything other than a new direction that Texans deserve.” – Bryan Slaton

• The rest of the country is watching Texas, writes Jon Francis in a new commentary.
   
• “It is important to note that every other liberty-loving American recognizes Texas as the last stand. The rest of the country is looking to us because they know if Texas falls, the rest of the country falls.” – Jon Francis

• Higher taxes and more debt are on the ballot for many residents of north Texas. After months of hardship brought on by local and state government responses to the Chinese coronavirus, will Texans allow it?
     
• Erin Anderson reports voters are being asked to fund increases in local government spending, by either raising their own taxes or approving bond propositions that will grow local property tax-supported debt by millions or even billions of dollars.
   
• For example, Dallas Independent School District is wanting to add $6.2 billion in debt (principal and interest), the largest local debt proposal in Texas history.
     
• Meanwhile, Fort Worth ISD is seeking a big tax hike – telling voters that for every dollar of new taxes they bring in, the “state” will add 50 cents of “state” money.
   
• Maybe FWISD can explain how the State of Texas gets this money from something other than the taxpayers? And maybe our state legislators can explain why they would create perverse incentives for school districts to raise taxes?

ONE CLICK SURVEY

Who do you think your neighbor is supporting for President?