A fiery Dan Patrick lashes out at Speaker Straus
In a fiery news conference minutes after the special legislative session ended Tuesday night, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lashed out at House Speaker Joe Straus, anticipated difficult primary elections for Republicans in Straus’ mold and predicted that bills to limit transgender bathroom use will be back.
Patrick blamed Straus for causing the demise of Senate Bill 1 by adjourning early, ending an opportunity to negotiate changes to property tax legislation that the House had “turned into a pile of mush.”
“With 27 hours to go, they walked off the job,” he said. “The reason we did not vote on Senate Bill 1 — as it came back in a take it or leave it, because we’re quitting and walking off our job mentality — is because it did nothing.”
The Senate demanded that taxpayers approve city or county property tax increases above 4 percent, while the House chose a 6 percent trigger. The 44 House Republicans who opposed the 4 percent rate in SB 1, Patrick said, “are going to have to explain that to the voters.”
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