When the hard-right caucus waved the flag on the House floor to endorse the Bush war on Iraq (HCR 75 authored by The Woodlands Republican Rob Eissler), almost all the members joined the mob, including far too many members of the Central Texas delegation. But a handful did stand up to the pressure and defied the jingoists, and Austinites can be proud that among them was one of our own. Remember to raise a glass to District 51 rookie-no-longer Eddie Rodriguez, who, with Fort Worth Dem Lon Burnam and El Paso’s Paul Moreno, effectively resisted being drafted into the military chorus. (District 46 veteran Dawnna Dukes was one of six abstainers.) Who’s been proven right? Rodriguez, Burnam, Moreno made their own majority of three, and we salute them all.
