With less than a month until the March 6 primaries, it’s hard to find a Republican nominating contest for the Legislature where the “bathroom bill” is a central issue.
Dan Patrick
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Texas Elections 2018
Analysis: Texas Republicans confront an enemy within
Texas Republicans are enjoying a historic majority and fighting an escalating factional war at the same time. The state’s majority party can’t seem to agree on who’s a true Republican and who isn’t.
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Texas Elections 2018
Analysis: Who’s the establishment, anyway?
The most conservative Republicans have made a strong run for the “establishment” flag, and they’re trying to strengthen their position in this year’s elections.
Posted inState Government
Paxton: Texans can bring guns to church unless church says otherwise
Attorney General Ken Paxton has clarified that licensed handgun owners can bring their weapons to church as long as the church does not say otherwise — a question raised after the deadly church shooting last month in Sutherland Springs.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Texas churches need to know they can have guns
Patrick requested that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issue an opinion on guns in church. The lieutenant governor said he hopes more churches will know they have the option to have guns in their buildings.
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Politics
Amid blowback over accounting maneuver, TxDOT drops financing idea for several toll projects
Late Thursday, transportation officials released a statement saying they were dropping several toll projects from long-term plans due to public response.
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Criminal Justice
Trump nominating Ryan Patrick, son of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, to be U.S. attorney
Ryan Patrick, who worked as a state district judge until losing a re-election campaign this past November, would become the top federal prosecutor in one of the busiest districts in the country.
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Higher Education
Lt. Gov. Patrick asks Senate panel to study free speech on Texas college campuses
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is asking Texas senators to study whether free speech rights are being infringed on college campuses.
Posted inState Government
Patrick, Straus direct Legislature to research Harvey, Alamo ahead of 2019 session
Straus assigned nearly every House committee at least one issue related to Hurricane Harvey to research in addition to topics normally under their oversight.
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Patrick skeptical of need for new House committee on Texas economy
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick isn’t sold on the new House Select Committee on Economic Competitiveness, which House Speaker Joe Straus recently formed to look at the factors that draw new business to Texas.
