Earlier, we presented an award to the Texas Senate's Parliamentarian for her terrible interpretation of the rules on Tuesday. Turns out there's more.
Apparently Texas Senate Parliamentarian Karina
Casari Davis already had a record of trying to circumvent the rules and
railroad dissenting views. In 2011, David Hanna, the Texas Legislative Council’s lawyer, sent an email to Karina Davis, copying her husband Doug Davis who was Dewhurst’s senior policy advisor on redistricting.
Hanna advised Karina that it would not be a good
idea to upload a new redistricting plan with the Council—even though it would
be hidden from the public—because it would still be time-stamped and thus show
that amendments to be offered by minority representatives were clearly not
going to be considered at all—even before they were even offered. So much for
democratic principles!
He didn’t think it would be good for
preclearance when the Justice Department would review Texas’s redistricting
plans.
In 2004, Dewhurst replaced Walter Fisher with
Karina Davis, even though she had limited parliamentary experience. A
search on the State Bar of Texas site also reveals that she is not an attorney,
a qualification you might expect for a new Senate parliamentarian with almost
no experience.
Her husband Doug is one, a graduate of Texas
Tech Law School and currently a lobbyist for the Texas Wholesale Beer
Distributors.
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