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Letters to the Editor - Clergy at Texas executions, Trammell Crow, climate change, the GOP, transgender policies, Dak Prescott
Readers share how they feel about the death penalty, praise Trammell Crow for being proactive regarding climate change, agree with two letter writers who criticized the GOP, advocate for transgender children and appreciate Dak Prescott.
Rep. Carl O. Sherman, Jr., D-Dallas, stands outside a mock cell the Texas Prison Air-Conditioning Advocates set up in South Austin the week of April 19, 2021. The group invited lawmakers and the public to experience what it feels like to experience the heat behind bars.
“When Georgia happened, there was a proliferation
of companies trying to jump on the woke bandwagon,” said David Carney, a GOP strategist and advisor to Gov. Greg Abbott.
But, Carney said, Democrats harmed their cause by overstating the impact of the Georgia bill, including President Biden misrepresenting how it affected voting hours. He said Texas Republicans were able to avoid a full-blown business uprising
in their state
with a simple message: “Read the bill.”
Supporters of the Texas legislation say its requirements to make voting procedures standard across all counties are widely popular and that expanding the power of poll watchers is a step toward transparency.
The G.O.P. Won It All in Texas. Then It Turned on Itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/magazine/texas-republicans.html
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The G.O.P. Won It All in Texas. Then It Turned on Itself.
The Republican Party trounced the Democrats at every level in Texas in November, only to see its politicians turn on one another over the pandemic and voter-fraud conspiracy theories.
Credit.Illustration by Andrew Rae
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Early on the morning of Oct. 19, an air-conditioner repairman named David Lopez was driving his small box truck in Houston, Texas, when a black S.U.V. slammed into him from behind and forced him off the road. After the vehicles came to a stop, Lopez heard the S.U.V.’s driver scream for help. He approached the vehicle, whereupon the driver, a man named Mark Aguirre, jumped out and ordered him to the ground at gunpoint. Aguirre had
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Donald Dahl, who’s been paying National Rifle Association dues since 1967, shuffled through the rotunda away from the House chamber at the Texas Capitol on April 15. That day was a long time coming for the mechanic and self-described “heavy-duty activist” from Round Rock, the Austin suburb. He had spent fifteen years hounding state lawmakers to expand gun rights. Like many grassroots Second Amendment enthusiasts, he couldn’t understand why Texas wasn’t one of the eighteen states that allowed citizens to carry a gun without a license or training. But finally, after years of campaigning on behalf of challengers to “wishy-washy” Republicans who never seemed to take up his cause, Dahl was relieved when the Texas House passed “permitless carry” on a 84–56 vote.
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