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The reason for the Bees' opposition stemmed from the state practice of allowing Texans of one party to cross over to vote in the other's primary. But voters cannot split their ballot: they have to go all Republican or all Democrat. The Bees wanted one primary so...
The Lieutenant Governor, after announcing his support for the split primary, went beyond his usual genial role as presiding officer of the senate and began lobbying actively for the bill. When prospects for passage continued to look bleak, Hobby tried to slip the measure past the Bees by bringing up...
Meeting in an office of Dallas Senator Oscar Mauzy, the dozen agreed simply to vanish from the 31 -seat state senate, thus blocking any senate action by preventing the necessary quorum of 21. The next morning ten of the Bees (two others simply left the state) began hiding out in...
A5 the search went on, the holed-up Bees whiled away the time by watching television soap operas, playing cards, studying the rules of the senate and consuming more than $350 worth of liquor and cold food smuggled into their hideaway by trusted assistants. The ill-prepared band soon began...
The lawmen never came close to finding the beehive, despite a statewide all-points bulletin, although they nearly did nail Senator Gene Jones, who had chosen to leave the hideout because he had just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police...