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The Texas Tribune reports:
Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment that would require statewide elected leaders to win the popular vote in a majority of Texas counties.
Other proposed planks of the 50-page platform included proclamations that “abortion is not healthcare it is homicide”; that gender-transition treatment for children is “child abuse”; calls to reverse recent name changes to military bases and “publicly honor the southern heroes”; support for declaring gold and silver as legal tender; and demands that the U.S. government disclose “all pertinent information and knowledge” of UFOs.
Perhaps the most consequential plank calls for a constitutional amendment to require that candidates for statewide office carry a majority of Texas’ 254 counties to win an election, a model similar to the U.S. electoral college. Such a requirement would effectively end Democrats’ chances of winning statewide office.
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Photo: Outgoing Texas GOP chair Matt Rinaldi.
Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office. https://t.co/bwDX51U60X
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 25, 2024