Summary: In two recent news articles, TX House Rep. Rogers summarizes the 88th Texas Legislative Session and takes his own troll against internet trollers.
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TX House Rep. Rogers: One Town Hall and One OpEd
In two recent news articles, TX House Rep. Rogers, who represents District 30 which includes Willow Park, summarizes the recent 88th Texas Legislative Session and takes his own troll against internet trollers.
• Rogers talks politics at town hall style meeting in Breckenridge, Breckenridge Texan 19 September 2023. In .pdf. Excerpts.
Rogers explained how the legislature works, meeting for 140 days every two years in regular session (special sessions of up to 30 days can be called). However, the legislators don’t start voting on bills until the last 80 days, he said.
“So what did we do in those last 80 days? Well, we had almost 12,000 bills, counting resolutions, 8,406 House and Senate bills, when you exclude resolutions,” he said. “And out of those, 8,406, there were 1,246 that actually made it through the House and Senate and were signed by the governor. So, about one out of every seven bills got passed. So the system is designed to fail bills, not pass bills. And that’s a good thing. Unfortunately, we also have some very good bills that don’t make it. But we deal with a lot of bills, and I took quite a few votes. We took third-reading, record votes on 2,089 bills. And when you add in amendments, you add in second-reading votes, you add in committee votes, I took over 5,000 votes in that 80-day period. Now, unfortunately, we have some that want to piecemeal that; they want … to go in and cherry-pick some votes and then try to score you on how conservative you are. I think maybe it’s more how much they can control you. But … you need to be very careful about looking at some of those scorecard fields. I’m very proud of every single vote I took.”
Rogers also mentioned some of the proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution, including one that will create a Broadband Infrastructure Fund to expand high-speed broadband access and assist in the financing of connectivity projects and another that will provide a cost-of-living adjustment for retired teachers. You can read more about the proposed amendments on the Texas Secretary of State’s website.
• Crossing the Bridge: Look out for Trolls, The Community News, 21 September 2023. In .pdf. Excerpts.
To appeal to ordinary citizens, Trolls say that elected officials are all “corrupt.” They paint any political proceeding as a “sham.” Name-calling (RINO, liberal, globalist, etc.) and lying are common practices among political Trolls. They reinforce distrust in all public institutions and leaders and work to make their audience feel helpless and hopeless. Often, such agitators don’t even take their position seriously, but narcissistically feed off creating fear, paranoia, and anxiety. They will go to great lengths to convince as many people as they can that there is a villain behind a given social woe with little or no solid evidence for the cases they try to make.
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