80th Legislature: Elections Committee Votes Out Voter ID Bills
By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 28, 2007 in 80th Legislature, Voter ID
On a party-line 4-3 vote, the House Committee on Elections voted to send two disasterous Voter ID bills to the full house moments ago.
Republican Reps. Leo Berman (Chair), Dwayne Bohac (vice chair), Kirk England and Charlie Howard cast the votes to send the bills to the floor while Reps. Lon Burnam, Joe Farias and Rafael Anchia—all Democrats—voted to consign the bills exactly where they blog: to the dustbin of the 80th Legislature.
The bills voted out were HB 218 by Betty Brown (R-Terrell) and HB 626 by Rep. Phil King.
Both bills are the biggest disasters that Berman’s committee has voted to the floor all year. We’ve previously told you why 218 is a big mess and why 626 is a huge disaster as well.
Of course, when you have right-wing anti-immigrant, anti-minority Leo Berman chairing the committee, what do you expect. The assignments made to this committee by Speaker Craddick were done in such a way that there is no chance of stopping bad legislation before it gets to the House floor. Of all the Committee assignments Craddick made, these were the biggest disaster of all, save the Democrats.
That Kirk England, the alleged “swing vote” on the issue claimed to be “taking notice” of all the calls his office got on this issue was also, evidently, a farce. He took no more notice than most people do when they pass a penny in the gutter.
Comments
Feel free to leave a comment...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!
You must be logged in to post a comment.