{"id":142,"date":"2013-05-28T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/28\/special-session-on-tap-lets-hang-on"},"modified":"2013-05-28T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T15:26:00","slug":"special-session-on-tap-lets-hang-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Special session on tap \u2026 let\u2019s hang on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Texas legislators \u2013 perhaps some of them at least \u2013 may have thought they were going home today.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong. Gov. Rick Perry has whistled them back in for a special session to deal with \u2013 get ready \u2013 redistricting. You\u2019ll recall the last time the Legislature met in special session on that matter. It was back in 2003 and it turned into a circus, with Democrats fleeing the state to prevent the Legislature from doing any business.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/news\/opinion\/session-adjourned-but-legislators-arent-packing-ba\/nX4bX\/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/news\/opinion\/session-adjourned-but-legislators-arent-packing-ba\/nX4bX\/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch\">http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/news\/opinion\/session-adjourned-but-legislators-arent-packing-ba\/nX4bX\/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the 83rd Texas Legislature did manage to do some things that few of us thought was possible. As the editorial from the Austin American-Statesman linked to this post notes, legislators demonstrated that bipartisanship doesn\u2019t consign lawmakers to spend eternity in \u201cthe depths of hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They passed a lot of good legislation with Democrats and Republicans working together to make it happen. Listen up, members of Congress. It can be done. See?<\/p>\n<p>Perry\u2019s special session call doesn\u2019t figure to be as contentious as that earlier session on redistricting. Then again, one never knows when the issue turns to redrawing congressional and legislative districts. As the American-Statesman noted, \u201cthere can be no more partisan\u201d endeavor facing lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The late state Sen. Teel Bivins of Amarillo was fond of saying that redistricting was a time for \u201cRepublicans to eat their young.\u201d He also could have thrown Democrats into that stew.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bon appetit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas legislators \u2013 perhaps some of them at least \u2013 may have thought they were going home today. Wrong. Gov. Rick Perry has whistled them back in for a special session to deal with \u2013 get ready \u2013 redistricting. You\u2019ll recall the last time the Legislature met in special session on that matter. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special session on tap \u2026 let\u2019s hang on<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}