“It was a nightmare,” Harold said.
The Bonin family sued the trucking company and won a multimillion-dollar settlement, but they say their medical bills are astronomical. I have caretakers that come on an everyday basis,” William said.
Harold Bonin said their experience is why he’s opposed to Texas House Bill 19. The bill would shift responsibility from commercial trucking companies to the driver.
He gave an emotional plea before a Texas House committee.
”I don’t see how this helps your constituents and citizens in Texas. It helps the insurance companies and it helps the trucking companies, but it doesn’t help us,” Harold said.
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@Brantl: I’m hoping O’Rourke strikes while the iron is hot, and announces for Governor before summer is over. He is a dynamic campaigner and should not get stale over a long campaign. And he could bring in a majority in the lower Texas House on his coat tails, as next year could be a wave election in Texas.
Texas Republicans will try to find safety by further gerrymandering legislative districts, but gerrymandering has it’s limits in the face of demographic change and political shifts. Virginia Democrats proved this when they went into the 2017 elections a 35-65 minority in the House of Delegates, and came out of 2019 up 55-45, on a map drawn by Republicans.