Burnt Orange Report

Reports from the Dem-osphere.

By Jim Dallas

To put it bluntly, my expectations have been pretty low when it comes to the Legislature actually passing a good plan for school finance reform, so if it seems like I'm behind the curve on this - I am. That said, if you haven't heard about this or read about iton one of these fine blogs the Democratic alternative plan came within one vote of passing yesterday, with 12 Republicans crossing over and forcing Speaker Craddick to break the tie in then name of opposition to sanity and progress. The House ended up passing HB2 instead, which will now head off to the Senate.

Meanwhile, I finally had an opportunity to be in the same room with Sue Lovell last night, who is running for Houston City Council place 2. Unfortunately, I didn't attend the last Harris County YD meeting, at which Lovell's fellow-candidate Jay Aiyer spoke. Although I am pretty impressed with Lovell's platform, I am still undecided in this race, largely because I've come to learn over the last year that Houston is just, let's face, a tremendously strange place, sort of like Oz.