Dan Patrick loses first Senate battle

As various media outlets and blogs have noted, local talker and new state senator Dan Patrick lost his first Senate battle today.

Patrick ran on a pledge of eliminating the so-called "blocker bill" tradition in the Senate, which effectively sets a supermajority requirement to move legislation.

Today, the talk radio host lectured his colleagues on his notion of the requirements of democratic government, after which they promptly outvoted him 30-1 on the matter.

The Blocker Bill tradition continues to strike me (and apparently Evan at Perry vs World) as a conservative tradition, so it's probably best in the long run for conservative governance that Patrick lost.

Patrick, incidentally, has gotten interesting coverage recently in the Economist and Texas Monthly.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/09/07 09:33 PM | Print | Comments (7)

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