By GottaLaff
But what began as a struggle by Democrats to keep a voter ID bill from coming up for a vote has continued, in part, as a tussle for control.
"This is not a bitter battle. This is a power struggle," said Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Denton.
Democrats have offered to suspend rules to take up major legislation – as long as it doesn't have a thing to do with forcing voters to present IDs at the voting booth.
[...]Republicans – rightly or wrongly is in the eye of the beholder – don't want to give Democrats control of the House's agenda, which is set by a House committee. [...]
The whole session has been a delicate balancing of House power, and now the fight is nakedly partisan.
And speaking of airing our differences, we all know how Rushpublics feel about nakeditude.
Democrats fear voter ID could cost them at least 1,000 votes every election in each House district – enough to have turned Mesquite Democrat Robert Miklos' 500-vote upset last fall into defeat.
And next year's House elections will decide whether Republicans next session get to dominate redistricting again. A Democratic House majority, especially if the party could win a couple of statewide races next year, would deny the GOP its huge map-making advantage.
The finer points of election rules make a huge difference in who gets to rule.
The tension is clearly unbare-able.
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