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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Texas Republican focuses on rebrand of ‘New York strip’ steak to ‘Texas strip’ amid outbreak

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Dan Patrick in Austin, Texas, in July 2021. Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

While Texas grapples with its worst measles outbreak in decades, its Republican lieutenant governor has moved for the state’s restaurants and groceries to change the name of the “New York strip” steak cut to the “Texas strip” in what he evidently hopes is a blow to liberals.

Dan Patrick announced on Friday on social media that he intended to go to Texas’s senate and work with lawmakers to pass a resolution favoring the switch – which would not carry the force of law but nonetheless would amount to a substantial statement of legislative support.

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