Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick starts 2021 legislative session with an unusually low profile Texas Tribune Published: Tags: Credit: Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson for The Texas Tribune In 2015, Dan Patrick stormed into his first legislative session as lieutenant governor declaring it a “new day” in Texas, claiming a mandate for conservative policy from voters in the prior election. Two years later, Patrick embarked on his second session with an early and aggressive red-meat agenda meant to build pressure on a resistant House. In 2019, Patrick played the eager participant in the united front that the...