

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is “spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further”.




















This has been the strategy of Gulf States for some time. Any municipality with a liberal majority just… loses its ability to self-govern. Gov Abbott, next door in Texas, loves to exert state power to strip municipalities of local office functions. Also a popular move in Florida and Oklahoma.
Would be nice if National Democrats bothered to notice these abuses when they came through town on fundraising junkets, of course. But it seems like the only way out of this is to flip statewide offices or pick up and move to bluer states.