LIV News Aplenty! War & Peace • THC Veto • East TX v. Water Lobby • Austin's Hole, Stop Digging • Don't mess with open govt.

Prof. John Mearsheimer with Gleen Greenwald, System Update June 24, 2025

Oh boy, howdy, we've got LIV news aplenty -- good, bad and butt ugly. Thanks to the many who read our last alert asking you to contact your members of Congress about the Israel - Iran conflict. This 90-minute discussion with Prof. John Mearsheimer on Glenn Greenwald's June 24th show is extraordinarily helpful, regardless of your views or support or lack thereof of the President's actions.

State Reps Cody Harris, Trent Ashby & Sen. Robert Nichols,

don't mess with East Texas water

The vainglorious Water Lobby is about to meet its match. These three legislators will not be easily bullied as Texas water (and energy) has moved into center stage in a fight for the basics in life.

"The first rule of holes:

When you're in one stop digging." Molly Ivins.

Close the Magic Hole • Sign the Petition, Austin!

Austin voters are signing petitions out the wazoo for a public vote on the "Magic Hole" -- the Austin boondoggle of the decade involving $5B+ plan to demolish a perfectly good convention center, for a massive expansion when the convention center business is flat and, some say, dying.The point is the voters should surely have a say. Get ready to attend the next Austin City Council meeting on July 14 when it's expected for the Council to put a tax hike on the ballot NOT a public vote on "The Hole" unless we have the signatures to make 'em give us a vote.

The finest analysts of the wild, wild west in Texas politics.

Straight from Quorum Report HERE

Gov. Abbott put Lt. Gov. Patrick on defense with an unusually long veto message in which the governor described what must be in THC legislation that he would sign, and denies Patrick legislative hostages during a special session. What a delicious moment in Texas politics.

Open government attorney sleuths --

LIV supports open government!

Bill Aleshire and Bill Bunch -- score again!

Not only did the two attorneys named Bill take $440M in Hays Co. road bonds off the ballot, due to violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act, it was the first time a TOMA violation was the basis for a successful Election Contest.We wrote about it in an open letter to the Bastrop City Council that's apparently on its high horse from the recent city council election, with a super-majority of members who could give two hoots nor a hollar about open government.

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