House Democrats torpedo bill allowing Lost Creek to leave Austin

[TexasTowelie]

Using a parliamentary challenge as the Texas House was churning through legislation early Friday, Democrats sank a bill that would have allowed the Lost Creek neighborhood to leave Austin by holding a disannexation election later this year.

The successful point of order about 1:40 a.m. came roughly 11 hours after a similar Democratic challenge halted a planned vote on Senate Bill 659, which would have let several hundred property owners along Lake Austin secede from Austin.

When SB 1499 came up for a vote on Lost Creek's future, Rep. Vikki Goodwin, D-Austin, was ready with her point of order but found Rep. Ben Leman, R-Anderson, occupying the back microphone to ask questions about the bill.

Undeterred, Goodwin pulled the microphone off its stand to raise her point of order, drawing protests from Leman.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/05/07/texas-house-democrats-end-bill-allowing-lost-creek-leave-austin/4989270001/

[walkingman]

1. Sounds like a clear message to the Texas Lege to re-district Lost Creek in the upcoming

gerrymandering. The Texas GOP and Texas in general is interested in only one thing - keeping the big donors happy so they can contribute to the those in the legislature that support the GOP ideal of "Greed is Good" - fuck the people of Texas - I've got mine and to hell with the rest of the state.