Red vs. Red in Texas, With Republicans Battling One Another After Mask Order

[RandySF]

DALLAS — Texas Republicans have long sparred with one another, with feisty internal disputes in recent years over gun rights, bathroom bills and other culture-war issues. But since the spring, as the coronavirus began to take hold across the state, it has been an all-out battle of red versus red.

This month, Republican groups in eight counties censured the Republican governor after he issued a statewide mask order, saying that it infringed on their rights and followed the lead of Houston, San Antonio and other Democratic-led cities and counties that already required masks in businesses.

And on Monday, party activists ousted the chairman of the state party in favor of an outspoken firebrand conservative who called for President Barack Obama’s impeachment in 2014 and whose ascension to the top party post received a congratulatory tweet from President Trump.

In Texas, the virus has heightened long-simmering friction in the largest Republican-led state in the country, and for the first time Gov. Greg Abbott has come under serious attack from within his own party. The conflict in many ways is not unique to Texas. The rifts in the party run along some of the same establishment-versus-insurgent fault lines that years ago defined the rise of the Tea Party and of Mr. Trump.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/red-vs-red-in-texas-with-republicans-battling-one-another-after-mask-order/ar-BB176mnm?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[eleny]

1. Some are a lost cause if bodies stacking up in Austin isn't waking them up

[ananda]

2. Perhaps the problem is that bodies ..

.. aren't really stacking up in Austin.

Austin is one of the good cities wrt CV.

[eleny]

4. It was in a news report on MSNBC

They were reporting on how the various cities are dealing with the dead.

[Shell_Seas]

3. The SREC election was illegitimate

This is a really big deal and I'm surprised it hasn't picked up much steam yet.

Hundreds, likely thousands of GOP delegates never cast a vote for new SREC chair, Allen West. They broke their own bylaws, making their election illegitimate.

The reasons this is such a big deal is, the SREC will likely have to null and void everything that happened last weekend and they will have to hold the SREC elections again or the elector votes in Texas, for the RNC, could be disputed in court.

https://livingbluetx.com/2020/07/texas-gop-srec-elections/