Bayliss Wagner
State Politics and Data Reporter at Austin American-Statesman
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Bayliss Wagner |Alexis Simmerman
The Texas Department of Safety has identified a “credible threat toward state legislators” attending Saturday's “No Kings” protest at the state Capitol, according to an email alert sent to Capitol staffers and lawmakers just before 1 p.m. Saturday. Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu is sponsoring the protest, and Austin democratic state Rep. John Bucy III, state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar are also planning to attend the protest.
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2 weeks ago |
statesman.com | Bayliss Wagner
After Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state ahead of mass, anti-Trump protests, internal memos obtained by the American-Statesman reveal military leaders are scrambling to find and train enough personnel for the mission. The state military department pulled 2,500 National Guard soldiers who had been assigned to Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, one memo from late Wednesday shows.
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2 weeks ago |
statesman.com | Bayliss Wagner
In December, after state Rep. Dustin Burrows declared the House Speaker’s race was over, chaos erupted in and around the Republican-dominated Capitol. Burrows, a Lubbock Republican, was leaning on the support of Democrats and around three-dozen Republicans to flout a non-binding state GOP rule saying caucus members must vote for the caucus-endorsed candidate. Several Republicans went public to ask that their names be stripped from Burrows’ list. Within days, both Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov.
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3 weeks ago |
statesman.com | Bayliss Wagner
Texas judges are set to see a long-anticipated pay raise under a last-minute deal that House and Senate lawmakers struck Monday, resolving hours of tense negotiations that pit both chambers against each other and sent the state’s judiciary into a panic. Passed hours before the session’s end, the legislation would kick base pay for district court judges up from $140,000 to $175,000, a 25% increase.
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3 weeks ago |
statesman.com | Bayliss Wagner
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a conservative activist’s lawsuit challenging the Texas Ethics Commission’s enforcement powers, effectively ending a decade-long effort to weaken the watchdog agency. Michael Quinn Sullivan and Empower Texans, a now-disbanded powerful political advocacy group largely funded by West Texas oil billionaires Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, filed the lawsuit in 2014 after the ethics agency fined Sullivan $10,000 for failing to register as a lobbyist.
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