If Democrats take a nap, Abbott's nominee for secretary of state will come back to life
AUSTIN — From now until May 27, Democrats in the Texas Senate must be both on their toes and in their seats.
All 12 Senate Democrats are on record as saying they'll vote to reject David Whitley, Gov. Greg Abbott's nominee for Texas Secretary of State, because of his admittedly mistake-ridden rollout of a plan to remove the names of noncitizens from the state's voter rolls.
That's enough to deny Whitley the two-thirds majority of the Republican-dominated 31-member Senate he needs to keep the job he started Dec. 17. But that didn't stop the Senate Nominations Committee from voting along party lines to send his name to the full Senate for consideration.
That's because Whitley could still win confirmation if three Democrats are absent from the Senate at the same time. The Texas Constitution says it takes two-thirds of the senators present to confirm a governor's appointee.
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