TEXAS ONLY: Rainy Day Republican Raiders listed from Updates [email protected] Despite garnering 79 votes to eliminate a provision that would automatically spend money from the state's Rainy Day Fund in the future, State Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford) was unable to eliminate this reckless addition to SB2. Here's the play-by-play: Yesterday on 2nd Reading, Rep. Donna Howard proposed an amendment that would automatically spend RDF dollars in the future. Howard's amendment was adopted without a record vote. Today on 3rd Reading, Rep. King attempted to strip the Howard amendment. Due to House rules that amendments added on 3rd reading must garner 2/3 support, Rep. King's efforts failed despite a 79-65 vote. While it does not seem that it is truly the will of the House to recklessly spend savings we don't have yet (ie a 79 to 65 vote difference), Liberals, with the help of 17 Republicans, adeptly manipulated the process to ensure it's inclusion. According to the preliminary record, the 17 Republican representatives who voted to recklessly auto-spend the RDF were: Fred Brown of Bryan John Davis of Houston Rob Eissler of The Woodlands Mike Hamilton of Mauriceville Rick Hardcastle of Vernon Will Hartnett of Dallas Chuck Hopson of Jacksonville Susan King of Abilene John Kuempel of Seguin George Lavender of Texarkana Dee Margo of El Paso Lanham Lyne of Wichita Falls Diane Patrick of Arlington Alan Ritter of Nederland Todd Smith of Bedford Burt Solomons of Carrollton Raul Torres of Corpus Christi It is now up to the conference committee whether the provision remains in the bill or if they strip it out before it returns to both bodies for final approval. If still included in the final version of SB2, the bill still must pass by a 2/3 majority in order to maintain Rep. Howard's amendment. Finally, Governor Perry has been consistently clear that he would veto any budget provisions that use the Rainy Day Fund, and as Rep. Phil King pointed out on the House floor, "The Governor usually does what he says he's going to do." Contact Your Govt http://www.usa.gov/Contact.shtml For more info about Obama’s Private Army, google Healthcare legislation & Obama's Private Army And US Public Health Service Ready Reserve Corpse Patriot Freedom http://www.patriotfreedom.org/battlefield.php If a link above does not work, cut-and-paste to your browser. Please be aware that Barack Hussein Obama’s grandfather was a highly respected witch doctor with the Luo tribe. His white grandmother was VP at the Bank of Hawaii and she worked with and for Peter Geithner on other projects, Peter is the father of Timothy Geithner, Obama's choice of Treasurer of the US. We the People http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE . -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
