...we are hearing a RUMOR Lt. Gov David Dewhurst is confirming that #SB5 did not pass effectively
UPDATE (2:02am): The Senate is caucusing right now and we are hearing a rumor that the Lt. Gov David Dewhurst is confirming that #SB5 did not pass, effectively.
See post here: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13693/did-the-texas-senate-really-pass-sb5
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Or if you're from Arkansas, make that a Perdue chicken.
Either way, it's one dead chicken.
And so is TX SB 5.
Thanks to Wendy Davis' awesome marathon performance which unfortunately fell a little short. But thanks to plan G in the back pocket, the Texas Senate Democrats prevailed using parliamentary tactics to keep the filibuster from ending. The gallery supplied their own delaying tactics by raising such a ruckus that the vote on the floor finally came after the Senate session turned into a pumpkin. Of course, the GOP somehow changed the vote log to reflect a vote before midnight, but apparently when the evidence of modified logs were quickly exposed on the Intertubes for everybody to see, the GOP obviously relented during a late session.
Along the way came some high drama punctuated by one Senator Leticia Van de Putte, who after burying her father joined the session and calmly made a simple parliamentary inquiry that set the gallery on fire:
The GOP never quite got control of them again.
This was beautiful and artful.
Copy from my post in another thread. Too lazy to type it in again.