And Ted Cruz Won't Be Their Senator
My guess is that if Harris County decides to secede from Texas and apply for statehood, Fort Bend County would join. But even without Ft Bend, Harris County (1,778 square miles) would be bigger than Rhode Island and, population-wise (with 4,731,145 people) would be the 25th biggest state in the union— with more people than Louisiana, Kentucky, Oregon, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa… You get the picture. Harris County as a state would have 2 senators and 7 congress members. Now if Ft Bend joined, there would be 8 congress members to represent its 5,553,924 people, almost as many as Minnesota. In 2020 Biden beat Trump 55.94 to 42.69% in Harris County and Ft Bend gave Biden a 54.57% to 44.01 victory. But that’s not why those counties may secede. After all, Travis only gave Trump around 26% of its vote and Trump didn’t reach 40% in Dallas, Webb, El Paso, Zavala, Dimmit or Presidio counties— and none of them are thinking of seceding yet.
So why would Harris? Well, there’s a bill, SB1993, making way through Texas’ authoritarian state legislature right now that targets Harris County for potential disenfranchisement. The non-elected Texas Secretary of State— a political ally of the governor— can overturn any election results and order a new election and the bill’s supporters have Texas’ largest county in mind, Harris. The bill applies to all counties with more than 2.7 million people— and that would be Harris and only Harris. The bill passed the Senate already and is now being taken up by the House.
The bill allows the Secretary of State to step in if they believe— no proof needed— that 2% of the county polling locations are out of ballots (or paper for their printer) for an hour. In that case the Secretary of State— a Republican— could invalidate the election— in a Democratic county that includes Houston— and call a new election at some unspecified time.
Progressive congressional candidate Pervez Agwan, whose district is primarily in Harris County but crosses into Ft Bend as well, sees right through what Abbott and his cronies in the legislature are trying to do. "Senate Bill 1993," he told me this morning, "is a blatant attempt by State Republicans to overturn legitimate elections in Harris County when they don’t like the outcome. The bill is textbook voter suppression disguised as protection and is part of a broader strategy that has sadly become far too common in this state. When Republicans don’t get their way, they throw the rights of the voters directly out the window and we can’t stand for it any longer."
Exactly what Tn is doing to Nashville. Negating it.
anticonstitutional. and democraps will do nothing. as is their practice since 1966. what part(s) of the constitution that nazis have repudiated have your democraps restored? none.
keep voting for democraps. maybe someday they won't be total pussies. but not in your lifetime. if you keep voting for them, why would they bother to change?
Supposedly Texas has a right to split into 5 states. DFW, Austin-San Antonio, El Paso and Rio Grande Valley should all spin themselves off and leave Texas, with its new capital in, say, Amarillo to its own red state misery.