José Rodríguez: The TT Interview
State Sen. José Rodríguez’s first term in the upper chamber of the Texas Legislature came during a session when the Republicans outmaneuvered Democrats on a host of political issues, an easy feat given their majority in the Senate and supermajority in the House. Still, Rodríguez, D-El Paso, says Democrats remained generally unified throughout the session, forcing the Republicans to own the significant cuts made to public education and health care.
During a recent conference in El Paso, Rodríguez sat down with the Tribune to talk about the 82nd Legislature, the effect free enterprise has had on ...
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G Hall
It takes alot of gall to point out that the Democrats were "generally united" in their efforts "forcing the Republicans to own significant cuts in public education and health care" and "there's no way Republicans ... can say we did this on a bipartisan basis". When our state is facing 10's of billions of dollars in Washington DC non-funded mandates the cuts have to come somewhere, why not from a gloated education system and a medicaid system being ruined by millions of illegal aliens. If asked, I'm sure the Senator would be happy to propose a solution that involves more taxes, fees and generally unified theft of the hard won wages of the working people of this state. His comment blaming the USA for the illegal immingration problem because "our country is a major player in creating the demand for labor" is the worst case of cognitive dissonance I have read today. We have major unemployment problems in Texas and nationwide. Americans, our countrymen, are hurting bad from this and a major reason is illegal immigration. This has contributed to decades of wage depression, the corruption of our votes, billions of dollars of health, education and criminal costs, and a general deteriation of our culture while providing Mexico's elites a safety valve so their desperate countrymen won't choose to overthrow their corrupt governments. The Senators gall in oppossing any legislation that will address our financial and citizenship difficulties without offering anything other than tax and spend ourselves into oblivion, tried and untrue unconstitutional immigration remedies and his optimism that the people will support the socialist in the WH in the next election is a textbook case of insanity (repeating the same task over and over and expecting a different result). People like the Senator are the reason I left the democrat party. The republicans, as a party are no better and that's why I am an independent, vote against incumbents of both parties and am very sad for the misery our country will have to endure while we over come the royal @#$#@#G we are getting from all the politicians of this senator's ilk.