UT Regents Told to Pay Attention to Senate Dems
Who will be the most important legislators in Austin in 2011?
According to Barry McBee, vice chancellor and chief governmental relations officer of the University of Texas System, that distinction may belong to the 12 Democratic members of the Texas Senate. He made the observation this morning in Austin during a presentation to the UT Board of Regents on the upcoming legislative session.
The reason: the Senate Democrats, of which there are 12 to the Republicans' 19, are the only legislators capable of putting the brakes on a Republican agenda. In the House, where the Republicans will have a near-supermajority ...
Comments (5)
Cheryl Walker via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why???
Chris Underwood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Horse hockey!!!
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Republicans are in the majority, I seriously doubt 12 Democrats will have any importance. There importance is only in the mind of the author, who like all the other reporters of the TT is a Democrat.
Robyn Hadley
What Barry McBee knows, and your reporter missed, is the Senate Democrats still have constitutional power to bust the governor's appointments. That can't be taken away from them by senate rules.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mac, clearly you haven't paid attention to the federal government in the past two years.