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Tyranny in Texas?

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hovercat

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To add ANYTHING to the agenda takes time in TX. It has to be published and posted a certain number of days. This is to allow those who wish to be heard to attend. Otherwise you could take up an issue and ramrod it through on 10 minute notice, and the public that would want to speak on that issue would not know to attend, and the issue would pass without dissenting comment from the public. This has happened in the past and is also bad.
If there is no listing for public comment, they cannot add it at that meeting. He must get it added to the agenda of the next meeting.
 
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hovercat said:
To add ANYTHING to the agenda takes time in TX. It has to be published and posted a certain number of days. This is to allow those who wish to be heard to attend. Otherwise you could take up an issue and ramrod it through on 10 minute notice, and the public that would want to speak on that issue would not know to attend, and the issue would pass without dissenting comment from the public. This has happened in the past and is also bad.
If there is no listing for public comment, they cannot add it at that meeting. He must get it added to the agenda of the next meeting.
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I heard a rumor that the agenda wasn't posted properly, which is a violation of the law unless I'm mistaken. I don't think he was necessarily asking that public comment be added on the spot, he was very simply standing up to a tyrant.
 
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For all those interested, the elected judge in this situation did not win re-election. He was beaten by the Republican candidate, Lovett.
 
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