Our state senator down in McGregor (Kip Averitt) continues to run roughshod over the Republican Party platform. First it’s expanding CHIP. Then it’s opposing appraisal caps. Then it’s something else to make grassroots conservatives irate — no wonder he carried a 34% conservative ranking when he was in the House. In 2002, Ellis County’s Ed Harrison fought a primary battle against him and lost. Unfortunately, Averitt didn’t learn then that Republican means you have to be conservative economically, as well as (somewhat) personally. See, this is why we like Houston Sen. Dan Patrick so much:
(Source: Lone Star Times blog, the electronic equivalent to DallasBlog, D Magazine’s FrontBurner and of course, The Ellis County Observer)
So, since I'm a Libertarian, why am I so fixated on Averitt's adherence to the GOP platform? Well, I'm one of Averitt's constituents, so if he isn't going to represent at least me individually, then he should at least abide by the GOP platform. He fails at both, and he fails at life in the process.
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