LUCIO REWARDED BY GOP FOR CASTRATING DEMOCRATS, DENYING ABORTIONS TO VICTIMS OF RAPE OR INCEST

By Juan Montoya

Last January, Ten. Eddie Lucio Jr. was the lone Democrat to vote to make it easier for Republicans t\o consider and pass legislation without any support of Democrats.
Recently, he got his reward.

Lucio castrated his fellow Democratic senators by supporting the Senate’s Republican majority rule change that makes it possible for senators to consider GOP-backed legislation without the necessity of gaining support from any Democrats.

The move was approved 20-10 along party lines and the decades-old rule that required a two-thirds majority to debate a bill on the Senate floor was scrapped in favor of a new three-fifths rule. Instead of 21 senators, it will now take 19 senators to consider legislation.
Educators in South Texas decried the Lucio vote saying that by giving the Republicans in the Senate a free hand, deprives Democratic senators of fighting for compromises that protect school district funding for their poor Texas communities.

Republicans hold 20 seats in the 31-member chamber, so if they are united, they can control the Senate agenda without Democratic help. 

Under the old rule, which dated to 1947, taking a bill up in recent years generally required bipartisan support.

Only Lucio voted with the GOP majority, while one Republican, Craig Estes of Wichita Falls, abstained from the vote. Republicans hailed the change as one that “will make the Texas Senate even better and help us deliver a conservative agenda a majority of voters elected us to pass.”
Democrats decried the change, noting that whether majorities were GOP or Democratic, the rule forced bipartisan cooperation and compromise.
In the 2011 session, for example, Democrats blocked a bill to restrict abortions by using the two-thirds rule to keep it from coming up for debate. Republicans finally passed the measure in a special session, when the rule was not in force.
Democrats also used the rule to prevent consideration of a bill allowing college students to carry handguns on campus and another measure authorizing private school tax credits.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick backed the change. As a senator from Houston, he pushed to alter the rule in previous legislative sessions.
Well, Lucio is now getting his 30 pieces of silver from Patrick.
He appointed Lucio Jr. to the state’s Joint Interim Committee to Study Border Security earlier this month.
The Joint Interim Committee was created in accordance to the Border Security Omnibus Bill (House Bill 11), which was passed during the 84th Legislative Session.
Lucio stated he was, “honored to be one of the five Senators appointed to the Joint Interim Committee to Study Border Security.”
“For the first time since 1993, I was the only senator on the Senate Subcommittee on Border Security to represent a border district.”
Lucio has also voted in favor of new law that requires underage women to provide additional personal information (including home phone number and address — i.e. information where their parents can be contacted), and judges will be allowed to take additional time to come to their decision. 

Democrats had pushed for an amendment that would allow for minors to obtain a bypass immediately upon request if the underage woman had been raped or abused by incest, but this amendment was ultimately thrown out under the justification that the bill was "intended to bring judicial clarity, and put more protections around the minor."

The "judicial clarity" implies that it's up to the individual judge to decide what is best for the teenage women hoping to get an abortion. (In the picture below, Lucio is in Brownsville attending the "Standing with Texas Women" rally. Notice the bloody coat hanger.)