By Nik Rajkovic
Jun 3, 2021
Proponents of casino gambling and sports betting in Texas will spend the next two years trying to drum up support ahead of next legislative session after the bills died in committee this year.
State Rep. Joe Deshotel, D-Beaumont, says that was the plan all along, even with Las Vegas Sands spending millions to pitch casino resorts in Texas four largest cities.
“They knew they could not pass a gambling a bill this session even though they spent maybe $4 million,” he says. “This is what was told to me by them is they re in it for the long haul.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, on Friday commended Mr. James for removing the tweet, but called Twitter‘s enforcement of its rules “utterly arbitrary.”
“Twitter is utterly arbitrary in how it handles this,” Mr. Cruz said on Fox’s “The Faulkner Focus.” “And that’s really the whole point. They have the power. They’re the black box.”
Rep. Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, tweeted that Twitter “seems to enforce their Terms of Service very selectively,” while conservative media critic Stephen L. Miller declared that “Twitter wants people like LeBron putting targets on people.”
Wilfred Reilly, Kentucky State University associate professor, asked, “wouldn’t LeBron James literally doxxing a cop picture, badge visible, 50 million followers presumably violate some element of the twitter TOS?”
California Governor s Office via AP
As our RedState team has covered here, here, here, and here, 60 Minutes decided to use its once hallowed Sunday news program to do a hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who, in case you didn’t know it, happens to be a Republican exposing that DeSantis’ choice of Publix for the state-wide vaccine distribution had to do with campaign contributions.
Jennifer Van Laar reported,
Alfonsi alleged that wealthy Palm Beach County seniors “cut the line” to get access to the vaccine. She’d been reporting around Palm Beach County for three months, she said, and there was a large disparity in vaccine access between “old-monied millionaires but also some of the poorest day laborers and farm workers in America,” and that it had “deteriorate[d] into a virtual free for all…as some wealthy and well-connected residents cut the line, leaving other Floridians without a fair shot.”