Filed under: Politics | Tags: Constitutional Requirements, current-events, Texas
The Texas Constitution Article 1 Section 16 says “that no bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.” This was pointed out by Rep. David Simpson when SB 293 which had passed the Senate, was brought to the floor by Speaker Strauss, a RINO of the first order. This bill was written because NASCAR wanted to be paid for items that were prohibited under the existing law, passed by the 83rd Legislature in 2013. NASCAR threatened to boycott Texas if they were not allowed to be reimbursed for these expenses. It may be that NASCAR should be invited to do as they wish, I enjoy the races, but not being held up by criminal organizations so I can enjoy them.
The present law does not allow funds to be reimbursed unless the entity is named under SB 1678 which as stated above was passed in 2013. Since that is the case, the bill now before the Texas House SB 293, is an unconstitutional bill, and if it passes the house, the Governor should veto it because it is unconstitutional. This is a travesty, but one that is to be expected because the Speaker of the House in Texas is a Republican in name only (RINO) and even appoints Democrats to chair Committees in a Republican dominated House. It is really high time that the Republicans get rid of these RINO’s and elect Republican conservatives to office. I personally think we should give Austin to California, since it is populated by Liberal Democrats.
Of course that is not possible unless we can somehow uproot the entire city and move it to California. (LOL) There should however be some way to enforce the Constitution of Texas in our own House, but it seems that the Democrats control it as long as Strauss controls the Speaker Chair.