Mitch Little

A lot of the, couple of the people who are really good at it and who brought a lot of point of orders that were successful, Briscoe Cain, T-Tony Tinderholt, aren't gonna be there anymore.

You're gonna see, I think you'll see Mitch Little do a little bit more of it than he did in the past.

But kind of who do you see kind of filling those shoes of getting up and, like, really going to town on these big point of order fights in the next session? Like, who are you kind of prognosticating of who's likely to be back, will be up there on the, at the front mic or the back mic and then at the dais, like, arguing for the point of orders?

Yeah.

Garza declined an invitation to testify and instead sent a five-page letter to the committee, according to Chairman Cody Vesut.

But after State Representative Mitch Little suggested that the committee send a subpoena hours into the hearing, the office sent a legislative liaison to testify.

State Representative Ellen Troxclair pressed the liaison for answers about Garza's office's failure to bring timely indictments leading to the release of two hundred sixty-three defendants in twenty twenty-four, as well as other cases, including one in which Garza reduced murder charges to tampering with a human corpse for a man accused of beating a woman to death.

Last but not least, the rate-making process for Texas electricity prices and grid congestion were two topics addressed by the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce hearing on Wednesday, with the seven hundred sixty-five-kilovolt transmission line project also featuring prominently during the hearing.

This became a very heated issue.

Republican Mitch Little of Lewisville, he suggested a full investigation and possible impeachment of DA Jose Garza here in Travis County.

I cannot remember any time in the past several decades where it was necessary for the district attorney to require the taxpayers of Texas to, um, I guess, harden his home to, from physical violence.

You would think that that would be suggestive that maybe a district attorney needs to do something about the degree of violence that would require such preparation.

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All right, couple things.

First off, I'm not sure where Mitch Little's coming from with this we-have-the-ability-to-remove-him thing, because the legislature doesn't have the authority to impeach any local district attorney.

They can impeach elected officials, they can impeach even local judges, but not district attorneys.

This is from yesterday, breaking news.

Little Governor Dan Patrick tells supporters that some of his Republican senators and GOP candidates for the Texas Senate are trailing Democrats in their races.

And because of the way that the state maps have been drawn, Arnie, this is a shock to me.

None of the state Senate seats should be in play.

I respect the author immensely, but I'm going to vote no on this.

Now, surely the second lawmaker to speak against it was a liberal Democrat, right? No.

It was Republican stalwart Mitch Little from Denton County because he pointed out that even for the people this was supposed to save money, it didn't really do that.

It is essential that we as a body deliver property tax relief to the people of this state.