"The Texas legislature is free to come into special session and revise the law to make it easier for candidates to withdraw. Probably the Texas legislature has a means to make a new law take effect immediately, and of course Governor Rick Perry would sign it. As soon as it were in effect, DeLay could withdraw. If Texas state legislators really want to give parties flexibility to replace candidates who don't want to run, they have been free to do that for some time, and they are probably even free to do it now."Update: An attorney from Austin, TX writes: "Just wanted to point out one problem with the third option you outlined this morning is that it takes two thirds of each house of the Legislature (100 in the House, 21 in the Senate) voting for a bill to give it immediate effect -- otherwise bills go into effect 90 days after the special session adjourns. With 64 members, Democrats have enough votes in the Texas House to block this, even if some of the Craddick leadership Democrats were to vote for it."
July 10, 2006
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Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including the Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and Christian Science Monitor.
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