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Values debate behind DWI checkpoint vote crosses party lines

Last week's record vote in the Texas Senate on SB 298 authorizing police to employ DWI checkpoints, a bill discussed here, demonstrated an interesting bipartisan breakdown:The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 10.Yeas: Averitt, Carona, Davis, Duncan, Ellis (D), Fraser, Harris, Huffman, Lucio (D), Nelson, Nichols, Patrick, Seliger, Shapiro, Shapleigh (D), Van de Putte (D), Watson (D), Wentworth, West (D), Zaffirini (D).Nays: Eltife, Estes, Gallegos (D), Hegar, Hinojosa (D), Jackson, Ogden, Uresti (D), Whitmire (D), Williams.Absent: Deuell.You'll rarely find a more thoroughly bipartisan split than that on a vote in the Texas Senate - both among aye and nay votes (under the 2/3 rule, that's one shy of having enough votes to block the bill)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).