Tag Archives: Dan Patrick

The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a state ban on all forms of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, advancing a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to crack down on the state’s booming consumable hemp market six years after lawmakers inadvertently permitted its rise. Senate Bill 3 — which Patrick called among his “top five” bills over his …

The Guardian reports: While Texas grapples with its worst measles outbreak in decades, its Republican lieutenant governor has moved for the state’s restaurants and groceries to change the name of the “New York strip” steak cut to the “Texas strip” in what he evidently hopes is a blow to liberals. Dan Patrick announced on Friday on social media that he …

The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously directed its flagship university to disband an LGBTQ+ studies minor, months after conservative lawmakers and websites accused the program of promoting “liberal indoctrination” on campus. The LGBTQ Studies minor is one of 14 minors and 38 certificate programs that administrators said were “low-producing,” according to …

Austin’s ABC affiliate reports: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick publicly debunked claims that voting machines in the state are changing the selections voters make. Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump, whose father-in-law is GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, posted on social media that Texas had looked into claims about voting machines in Tarrant County switching voters’ selections and the “error …

The Associated Press reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday said he’s demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the area as well as answers about its preparations for upcoming storms. “Power companies along the Gulf Coast must be prepared to deal with hurricanes, to state the obvious,” Abbott said at his first news conference about …

NBC News reports: As days of sweltering heat persists, Houstonians have directed their frustration over the lack of electricity toward local utility company CenterPoint Energy, which is under increased scrutiny for a perceived slow response after Hurricane Beryl landed on the Gulf Coast of Texas earlier this week. The dangerously hot temperatures this week have led to an increase in …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas is receiving federal aid for Hurricane Beryl later than needed because state leaders were slow to request an official disaster declaration from the White House, President Joe Biden told the Houston Chronicle Tuesday. With Gov. Greg Abbott out of the country on an economic development trip in Asia, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has served as …

The Guardian reports: Dan Patrick, Texas’s lieutenant governor, said on Friday he would pass Bill 1515 mandating the biblical stricture in all classrooms, in the next session of the state senate, the upper legislative chamber over which he presides. “SB 1515 will bring back this historical tradition of recognizing America’s heritage, and remind students all across Texas of the importance …

Mediaite reports: Sebastian Gorka stopped a press conference briefly outside Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan to tell a reporter it was “pathetic” to suggest the former president is part of the “ruling class” or “elite.” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at one point accused the “ruling class” of targeting Trump for political purposes, and the lieutenant governor snapped …

“I’ve said for over a year many times that Joe Biden would not be on the ticket and Michelle Obama would be the likely nominee. It’s clear the Democrat deep state run by Barack Obama knew they had to take him down to give them a chance in November. “They set him up in the report calling him a ‘sympathetic, …

The Messenger reports: “Don’t mess with Texas,” the state’s Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ominously warned Sunday in a message directed at President Joe Biden in a clash over border control. “We believe constitutionally we are right. We have a right to defend our citizens. We have a right to defend this country,” Patrick said on Sunday Morning Futures when …

The Daily Beast reports: Dan Patrick, the Republican lieutenant governor of Texas, threatened on Tuesday to remove President Joe Biden from his state’s ballot—seemingly as retribution for a Colorado Supreme Court ruling which booted former President Donald Trump from that state’s 2024 presidential race for engaging in an insurrection on Jan. 6. Patrick made the comments on Fox News, justifying …

The Texas Tribune reports: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Wednesday that he does not plan to return any of the $3 million he received from a group whose leader recently hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Defend Texas Liberty is a major donor to Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republicans, and is funded primarily by two far-right West Texas …

The Texas Tribune reports: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick broke his personal silence Saturday on Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment after the Senate voted for acquittal, blasting the House’s impeachment process as deeply flawed. “The speaker and his team rammed through the first impeachment of a statewide official in Texas in over 100 years while paying no attention to the precedent …

The Texas Tribune reports: Joy Alonzo, a respected opioid expert, was in a panic. The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick [photo] during the talk. In the few …

Dallas’s NBC affiliate reports: Defend Texas Liberty PAC has urged Republican lawmakers to vote against removing impeached Attorney General Ken Paxton. Campaign records published Tuesday show the group also gave a $1 million donation and a $2 million loan to the presiding officer over the Paxton case in the Texas Senate — Republican Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. Luke Macias, director …

The Texas Tribune reports: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Monday issued a wide-ranging gag order ahead of the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton, saying “out-of-court statements” by both sides could jeopardize the trial in the Texas Senate. The order, which went into immediate effect, cites what Patrick called “particularly egregious” statements that “pose a serious and imminent …

The Houston Chronicle reports: In the upcoming impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has likened the Senate proceedings to a real-world courtroom, with senators serving as jurors and Patrick as the judge. However, this raises concerns over potential conflicts of interest within the trial. Paxton owes Patrick around $125,000 in outstanding campaign loans, while one …

The Texas Tribune reports: A little more than a year after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick declared war on faculty tenure at the state’s public universities, the Texas Senate approved a bill Thursday that would bar schools from granting the benefit to newly hired professors. Patrick’s push to end tenure in Texas started more than a year ago after some University …

The Texas Tribune reports: Monday’s announcement had brief descriptions of the priority bills (many of which have not been filed yet) and more directly addressed controversial legislation that the most socially conservative members in the Republican Party have called for, including bills that seek to impose restrictions on transgender Texans. Patrick also included legislation to ban what he deems “obscene” …