It is a sad day in Texas History to be watching HB 1 slowly move through amendments toward passage. The testimony is heart rending as a minority of legislators work to stop the process of cutting services to public school children, the elderly, and the disabled.
Many groups representing the elderly, the frail, the handicapped, and school children, are all walking about in the halls of the capitol. A few are here in the galleries. But a large group, almost 90% men, all in suits, are standing outside the House chambers in the lobby. I presume they are lobbyists. It appears they may hold the power, not the other groups walking about the capitol mentioned above.
