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Republicans are wrecking education in Texas. Penny wise for pound foolish.
Paxton attempts to chain smoke his wife's recusal.
Republicans are wrecking education in Texas. Penny wise for pound foolish.
“Elections have consequences. Collectively we got what we voted for.”
Of course you'd be for that.
That applies to the entire Trash dominated repug cult
Boebert wants her MAGAtts referred to as ultra MAGAtts
Damn, how many senators did he marry?
Texas has been controlled by a Republican trifecta for about thirty years, but Republicans are still blaming Democrats for bad government.
Paxton probably can't weasel out by resigning. Even Rick Perry is suggesting the lege should throw him overboard, er, respect the process.
Daddy-O, you ain't a turnin' Texas. Uh, uh. Nope.
This preemption bill takes power away from voters who elected Democrats in big cities. It's reactionary bull . We've had home rule in Texas for 130 years and one party rule at the state level for almost 30 years.
The GOP can't beat the Dems at the polls in big cities, so they're taking away powers cities have had since the turn of the 20th century.
Special session incoming.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09...hool-vouchers/Gov. Greg Abbott has notified the Texas Legislature that a third special session will begin on Oct. 9.
A Sept. 26 letter signed by Abbott and addressed to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan, did not indicate the focus of this special session. But the governor has said repeatedly the next special session would focus on public education, including the issues of school vouchers and public school funding.
As some of you may recall, the Lege couldn't find a single penny in additional funding for Texas schools in the regular session.
In the end, school districts have paid the price. Many school officials have had to adopt deficit budgets, meaning their expenditures outweigh their revenues. Some school districts have dipped into their savings to offer teachers minimal raises, balance their budgets or simply to keep the lights on. Others are considering closing campuses all together to save money.
Perhaps Ma Richards has risen from the grave.
FWIW, the Texas Consitution requires that suitable provision be made for public education. Abbott and Texas (R)s are pissing on that.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.7.htmARTICLE 7. EDUCATION
Sec. 1. SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.
(Feb. 15, 1876.)
Big deal. Cons utions/state OR U.S. mean little to zip to your side. You just trump, I mean tromp all over 'em when their edicts don't suit your side.
Texas Baptists and rural Texas Reps don't like vouchers.
Private school vouchers are a sop to rich Texans and culture war billionaires who want Christian indoctrination instead of the universal public education required by the Texas cons ution since the 19th century.
https://www.texasobserver.org/from-b...ublic-schools/Earlier this week, members of the Baptist General Convention of Texas called out Abbott for violating cons utional laws that separate church and state when he called on religious leaders to use the pulpit to promote “School Choice Sunday” on October 15.
“Government should not interfere with the free exercise of religion, and no religion should depend on public tax dollars for support,” wrote Baptist church leaders in the statement.
Director of Pastors for Texas Children Reverend Charles Johnson told the Observer that the fear-mongering about indoctrination in public schools is “ludicrous.”
“When [rural Texans] really look around the school, they see their family members and their church members,” Johnson said. “They’ve grown up together, the children have been in school together. There are cross-racial relationships. The teacher who harbors a humanistic concern for the well-being of every child is going to guard the freedom and dignity of the child’s religious expression.”
Abbott is threatening to primary rural Reps who don't get on board.
wow, money given away
Dan Patrick fades the heat for Defend Texas Liberty and keeps their $3m dollars. Is he their spokesman now?
They support Israel's right wing because they think it will hasten the end of the world.
Last edited by Winehole23; 10-12-2023 at 12:51 AM.
Coddling neo-Nazis seems to be a reasonable place to draw a red line, but only a handful of Texas Republicans seem to to be willing to do it.
DTL's meeting with Nick Fuentes lasted 6.5 hours, it wasn't a chat over lunch.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10...han-stickland/In a statement, Frisco Rep. Jared Patterson said that he has given $2,500 to a pro-Israel charity, to account for the in-kind contribution of the same value he received from Stickland.
“I was appalled to learn Defend Texas Liberty PAC hosted a Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier for six hours,” Patterson said in a statement. “I could not rest until I washed my campaign from the stain of this organization and its leader.”
Even Kyle Rittenhouse had enough sense to leave the building.
And even more than enough sense to shoot those s who ed around (Effy) & found out (Effy).
"Who's the wild man now!"
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