Despite controlling both houses of the Texas legislature by comfortable margins, Republicans are fighting amongst themselves over what form the inevitable property tax break will take. It’s devolved into name-calling between the second and third-most powerful Republicans in the state: Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Pelan (R-Beaumont).
“California Dade wants a California tax plan or a New Jersey tax plan,” Patrick, told Spectrum News on Tuesday. He then waved around a bunch of money like it was a Gallery Furniture commercial (ask your Houston friends).
Phelan is not from California, but invoking the Golden State is Texas Republican slang for high treason, liberalism, or both.
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