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Related: About this forumMore Texas voters unhappy than satisfied over power grid, abortion, property taxes
Texas voters have a net disapproval for how state leaders have handled the reliability of the electricity grid, abortion and property taxes, according to a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
In an October poll of 1,200 registered voters, respondents expressed major disapproval for the states handling of the reliability of the main power grid after statewide power outages in February left millions of Texans without power for days. Only 18% of voters approved of how state leaders handled the issue, and 60% of voters disapproved. Even lawmakers themselves have expressed frustration that the laws they wrote to prepare the power grid for extreme weather havent led to enough preparations ahead of this winter.
The lurking uncertainty and doubts about the electricity grid [are] a mine waiting to go off, said Jim Henson, co-director of the poll and head of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin. If theres another even moderate infrastructure problem in the state in the grid or service delivery writ large that can be connected with the February outages and the failure of the Legislature to respond in a way that people expect it to be effective, its a real political problem for incumbents.
The internet survey was conducted from Oct. 22-31, a few days after the conclusion of a third special legislative session, and has a margin of error of +/ - 2.83 percentage points. For now, that special session wrapped up nearly 10 months of frantic activity at the Legislature, which passed laws that loosen gun restrictions in the state, severely restrict abortion access and double down on state spending on border security.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-more-texas-voters-unhappy-165405855.html
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)DBoon
(22,395 posts)What do they expect when any sort of income tax is off limits.
Or do they magically think that they can defund state government and nothing bad will happen?