What priorities do you want the legislature to work on this session? It seems that school choice has taken the air out of the room and there's no discussion of anything else. The House has been working about 2 hours a day, 2 days a week with nothing to show and conservative priorities are on the back burner.

Patrick and the Senate passed them SB2 'school choice' bill, which seems to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. Gambling money has flooded the state and there are rumors that a deal will be made to legalize some form of gambling in order to pass school choice.

I'd like to see border security, real property tax cuts (preferably elimination), grid hardening, and insurance reform to reduce rates. So far, I haven't heard or seen much movement on those issues. What are your thoughts?

The Dems are running the house in effect, and they are doing their damnedest to obstruct the legislative process.

1. Prevent actual conservative legislation from getting a vote.
2. Get RINOs reelected.
3. Lie
4. Collect paydays from corporations with vested interests and Soros affiliated NGOs..

Vouchers, vouchers, vouchers. It's the only thing Abbott cares about at this point (and getting $11B reimbursed from the Feds for the border).

Personally I would like to see them address Robin Hood and the grid but neither one will probably get much discussion, if any.

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Vouchers, vouchers, vouchers. It's the only thing Abbott cares about at this point (and getting $11B reimbursed from the Feds for the border).

Personally I would like to see them address Robin Hood and the grid but neither one will probably get much discussion, if any.

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I would rather see them address Robin Hood than school choice because Robin Hood encourages debt, and we're drowning in it right now.

They have already announced that fixing property taxes is a priority item and that means they don't have to wait 90 days to vote on it.

Abbott wants to increase the homestead exemption another $40k. Which of course won't fix **** as the appraisal distracts will just up the values whatever it takes to make up the losses. The Lege keeps taking the easy way out politically with the exemption and refuses to address the real issue which is that a property tax is a local tax by many local authorities and that the HE only affects public schools.

Texas voted Republican by 14 points in 2024.

The modern Republican party is conservative populist.

The House is ran by Rick Perry/Bush/Rove/Phelan/Burrows RINO country club establishment Republicans.

Dan Patrick and the Texas Senate's conservative populist priorities is what the focus should be on. It is what the voters of Texas decided on in the election. They did not vote for the RINOS in the Texas House to only pass corporatist policies for their donors like Texans for Lawsuit Reform.

If the RINOs do not listen then they will lose another 25 RINOs to conservative challengers in primaries in 2026 just like they lost 25 RINOs in the Texas Republican primaries in 2024. They will probably lose more RINOs because the Texas GOP is going to closed primaries.

https://www.danpatrick.org/my-top-2025-priorities/

Lt. Governor and Senate President Dan Patrick's Priority Bills

• Senate Bill 1 Senate's Budget for Texas
• Senate Bill 2 Providing School Choice
• Senate Bill 3 Banning THC in Texas
• Senate Bill 4 Increasing the Homestead Exemption to $140,000 ($150,000 for seniors)
• Senate Bill 5 Combatting Alzheimer's Establishing DPRIT (Dementia Prevention & Research Institute of Texas)
• Senate Bill 6 Increasing Texas' Electric Grid Reliability
• Senate Bill 7 Increasing Investments in Texas' Water Supply
• Senate Bill 8 Requiring Local Law Enforcement to Assist the Federal Government's Deportation Efforts
• Senate Bill 9 Reforming Bail Keeping Violent Criminals Off Our Streets
• Senate Bill 10 Placing the Ten Commandments in School

Patrick has 40 priority bills, but the ones with the lowest numbers are the most pressing. They get done first. 4, 8, and 9 are by far the most important. The governor agrees with many of these as well. Abbott actually helped to remove countless incumbents to help get number 2 passed, so that will be the governors priority.

Bulldog73 said:

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1. Prevent actual conservative legislation from getting a vote.
2. Get RINOs reelected.
3. Lie
4. Collect paydays from corporations with vested interests and Soros affiliated NGOs..

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Number 4 is 100 percent the whole problem.

The Texas House and Speaker Burrows are using 36 country club establishment Perry/Bush/Rove/Phelan Republicans to run a whole chamber of the legislature. They only care about corporatist policies for their RINO donors.

Country club establishment Republicans controlled by Texans for Lawsuit Reform and Associated Republicans of Texas.

Priorities 4, 8, and 9 of the Texas Senate above are actual common sense conservative policies that will help every law abiding taxpaying citizen in Texas.

RINOs are far more harmful to good legislation than Democrats. You know the Democrats are Marxists. The RINOs hate good policy, but when they go back to their districts during campaign season they lie and pretend like they are Desantis or Cruz when they are actually Rick Perry.