Good morning!

The polls open at 7am today for the constitutional propositions election. You can get the recommendations of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility on our website.

Here is today's Texas Minute.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Tuesday, November 5, 2019
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• Some of you are tired of the reminders about the election, and the TFR recommendations; even though we’ve written extensively about them weekly for three months, some people are just now asking about them. So thank you for your patience!
      
• The widely respected Club for Growth released their review of the Texas Legislature last month. Club for Growth is known for their work educating the public about the value of free markets, pro-growth policies, and economic prosperity. Receiving highest honors in the Senate was Bob Hall (R-Edgewood), while Jonathan Stickland (R-Bedford) had the top score in the House. Hall and Stickland were the only Texas legislators to receive the “Defender Of Economic Freedom” designation. 
       
• The Club for Growth’s rating saw Senate Republicans earn an average 80 percent rating, while Democrats averaged 30 percent. In the Texas House, Republicans had a 63 percent rating on the CfG scorecard compared to their Democrat colleagues 20 percent average.
       
• Attorney and former Collin County Republican Party Chairman George Flint has formally announced his candidacy for the 401st District Court. Erin Anderson has the details.
      
• In a new commentary, Jim Ellis explains why it will be difficult for many of the lower tier Democratic presidential candidates to continue for the same financial reasons that forced out Texas’ Robert Francis O’Rourke.
       
• Errata: In yesterday’s Texas Minute a joke was made about letting lawyers too close to public office. A state district judge didn’t like that one bit, and responded by saying lawyers have done too many great things for our country to not be held in the highest esteem. Yes, seriously. Apparently “sense of humor” is removed sometime between starting law school and becoming a lawyer elected to office; it is replaced with an over-abundance of “professional self-importance.”

• When it comes to immigration policy, Ken Cuccinelli is intelligent and committed to the president’s agenda. But certain Senate Republicans hate him, writes Rachel Bovard in a new commentary, and they are trying to undermine his rumored appointment to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
      
• “The do-nothing Republican Senate, which cannot repeal Obamacare, secure the border, defund Planned Parenthood, or even take more than one vote to bar infanticide, has proven itself shockingly adept at one thing: going into overdrive to block the Trump nominees they personally dislike.” – Rachel Bovard