We are so screwed in Texas

[rainbow4321]

To hell with all of our other problems down here...TX repugs have their own agenda.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/121004dntexwant.3c0f7.html


AUSTIN – The first bill assigned a priority number in the House isn't about public education or child abuse protection. It's a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Social conservatives have a firm grip on the levers of Texas government and are determined to steer the legislative session that begins Jan. 11.

Conservatives in and out of the Legislature say the time has come for school vouchers and has passed for quickie divorces. They will fight the legalization of slot machines and champion a ban on human cloning, including embryonic stem-cell research.

And they will join ranks with some pharmacists and church-affiliated hospitals so they will not have to dispense the "morning-after pill" or other prescriptions that they morally oppose. For some hospitals, that includes not having to provide such pills for rape victims brought to their emergency rooms.

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"There's no doubt that conservatives are in a good position," said Kelly Shackleford, president of the Free Market Foundation. "Now we're getting back to the kind of positive things that we can get done to help preserve life, to protect families or marriages. Those kinds of basic issues," he said.

[Florida_Geek]

1. Education of children is not a basic issue

fuck you Kelly

[Bronco69]

2. I read about this not too long ago.

I don't know exactly what I can do, but I intend to make some phone calls and fight this to the bitter end! We have less than a year to fight so we better start now. I believe this will be on the Nov. 8 ballot.

[demosincebirth]

3. There are more important thing to them than education, health care, jobs,

homelessnes and many other social ill.

"Yup, we can't let 'em take over" is their new battle cry! Screw all those other important issues! Forget the Alamo!

[rainbow4321]

8. And TX child abuse issue...

Heaven forbid they fix the state CPS dept...anyone want to guess how many connection$ the "private company" used will have to the repug party?? Somehow I doubt the "slew of changes" will amount to anything that will actually FIX the problem or benefit the abused kids if the repugs are the ones making the decisions.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/120704dntexxgrkids.c08b9.html


The committee offered dozens of recommendations of changes at the state's troubled Child Protective Services division, including a shift of about one-fifth of its more than 5,000 employees to the private sector.

Revelations this year that overwhelmed caseworkers missed abuse and neglect that sometimes led to child deaths have generated an outcry and pledges for major reform. With the Legislature preparing to convene next month, lawmakers and state officials are recommending a slew of changes.

One proposal that appears to be gaining consensus is to privatize some CPS work. Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn has urged that private agencies be hired to manage cases and, as some are already doing, recruit and train foster parents

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Other recommendations include requiring that the state provide a lawyer for poor parents before their children are removed and making pharmacists report doctors who prescribe three or more mental health drugs for a child.The CPS has been criticized for letting too many of the state's 17,000 foster children be given mental health medications – either so they'll be more docile or so that doctors and drug companies can make a buck.

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

4. What about all the toll road initiatives?

I hear that Perry wants to turn Texas into the toll road capital of the world and build all these unnecessary highways on the backs of taxpayers and then charge tolls to use them.

[quaoar]

5. Those Texas Repukes must be falling down on the job

Don't they have the teaching of creationism instead of evolution at the top of their education priority list?????

[tandot]

6. We moved from Texas to California in October ... I am sorry for all the

people who are stuck there.

Some of those idiots don't even want to fill regular birth control prescriptions. The greatest nation on this planet is full of ignorant, hypocritical assholes. We are the laughing stock of the whole wide world.

We have every right to call them stupid and apologize to the world for having such an ignorant dumb-ass as president (and so many ignorant dumb-asses voting for him). No apologies from me. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. With a name like "Free Market Foundation"

I would think they'd butt their noses in only on economic issues (defending outsourcing and craps like that). But I guess if you are gonna play with the rightwing @$$holes, you have to support them on all the issues or else you are persona non grata.