Texas Tea Party Taking Power Back From Conservative Business Groups

[TexasTowelie]

Last week’s GOP primary showed the continued strength of the Tea Party in Texas. But it also showed a weakening of another stalwart Republican demographic: the businessperson.

First, a disclaimer: The results don't prove anything definitive. One election does not a trend make. And it's not hard to find people who say the state's business leaders still have a large role in Republican Party politics.

"I think the business community hasn't lost its voice," Rice University Political Science department chair Mark Jones says. "But its influence is much less then it was say 10 years ago."

Last week’s GOP primary showed the continued strength of the Tea Party in Texas. But it also showed a weakening of another stalwart Republican demographic: the businessperson.

More at http://kut.org/post/texas-tea-party-taking-power-back-conservative-business-groups .

[Downwinder]

1. They lost a couple big contributors last year.

Wonder if SBC becoming AT&T and TXU going to KKR might have diminished emphasis on state politics.

[DhhD]

2. Third World Countries/States have fewer and fewer goods that can be sold to the public

as the consumers have less and less buying power. Those low pay Texas jobs that have been created through the GOP during the last 10 years in Texas, are taking a toll. A separation is occurring: A few vote for ever more extremism at the GOP Primary and the rest of Texas, under wage stagnation and decline, must ready itself to vote. Many Texans not under decline are seeing what Extremism is doing to Texas and will vote accordingly just like they did in 1992 when they realized the true degradation of no more taxes, the Tea Party insanity of today.