Nine More States Comply With Federal Prison Rape Law, But DOJ Rejects Texas Governor's Letter

[TexasTowelie]

For a brief instant, it was starting to appear as though a wave of sanity had swept over the Texas GOP.

First, Rep. Sarah Davis became the first Republican state lawmaker in history to publicly back same-sex marriage.

Then, it was widely reported that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott had agreed to comply with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act — unlike his predecessor, Rick Perry.

Alas, though, it was apparently too good to be true, at least with regard to Abbott. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department has rejected the governor's assurance of compliance with PREA:

Mr. Abbott, who took office in January, was under some pressure in the week before the deadline, during which an article in The New York Times highlighted the sexual abuse problem in Texas’ prisons, an editorial in The Dallas Morning News urged the governor to “enact the federal reforms now,” and protesters in Austin called on him to take action against prison rape.

“I can assure you that we will fully implement D.O.J.’s PREA standards wherever feasible,” he wrote to the attorney general. ...

Mr. Abbott did not, however, provide the required written assurance that Texas would spend at least 5 percent of certain federal grants to achieve full compliance with the anti-rape standards.

“The letter we received from Texas makes no such representation and, therefore, it cannot be considered to be an assurance under PREA,” said Dena W. Iverson, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department.

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[Gothmog]

1. Abbott is a nasty person

The DOJ is correct to not trust Abbott

[DhhD]

2. The Texas Republican government under Perry accepted federal education money based

based on a 50 50 deal. When the federal grant money arrived, the state's 50% was diverted from education funding, to the Texas "Black Hole" red budget. The Legislature sets up the funding in its bi-annual sessions. Texas Republicans are well known for lying to and cheating the children of Texas. The independent school districts are in a court case now with the State. Last year, after a judge found for, the Districts, Gregg Abbott, the Attorney General, appealed the case. The case has yet to be settled. Now the Texas Legislature has not returned education funding lost in 2011. The Legislature usually shuts at the end of May for two years.

Texans are becoming very aware of Texas Republican Serpents. Lots of other issues will surface before the vote for a straight Democratic Ticket in Nov 2016. The US Supreme Court found that Texas was in violation of its voting laws but stayed the decision until AFTER the 2014 election of Gregg Abbott and his band of merry liars, and deviants.