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applegrove

(118,634 posts)
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 04:45 PM Jul 2019

Texas Lawmakers Shield Emails

Texas Lawmakers Shield Emails

https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/01/texas-lawmakers-shield-emails/

July 1, 2019 at 12:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments

"SNIP....

Dallas Morning News: “Texas has passed a new law that lets lawmakers conceal their emails and other communications from public scrutiny, as they prepare to redraw the state’s voting maps.”

“The law’s Republican authors, North Texas’ Rep. Charlie Geren and Sen. Kelly Hancock, billed it as a housekeeping matter, a routine update to rules governing how lawmakers retain records and run debates. It passed easily with almost no discussion and little media attention.”

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Texas Lawmakers Shield Emails (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2019 OP
wow Demovictory9 Jul 2019 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jul 2019 #4
yep Demovictory9 Jul 2019 #6
There's so much hullabaloo about Russian interference; meanwhile we have election theft in diva77 Jul 2019 #2
We're having that fight here in WA state... Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #3
The Radical Right EleanorR Jul 2019 #5

Response to Demovictory9 (Reply #1)

diva77

(7,640 posts)
2. There's so much hullabaloo about Russian interference; meanwhile we have election theft in
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 04:52 PM
Jul 2019

plain sight by U.S. citizens. The voting machines from 2016 election have not been inspected either. This is the elephant in the LR!!



K&R for exposure

Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)
3. We're having that fight here in WA state...
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 04:53 PM
Jul 2019

It's not just red states doing it. We're supposed to have transparency and public records laws, but the Leg keeps voting themselves immunity from it.

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