Connecting the Citizens of North Texas with their elected officials
Just like the “affordable” healthcare act wasn’t affordable; school “choice” is NOT about choice.
PARENTAL CHOICE is, and has been, in the Texas Education Code since at least 1995, allowing for a student to transfer to another campus within a school district, to another school district, to another county, and even to a district in another state (for districts bordering the state line). [continue reading on page 2…]
2 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution will be on the May 7, 2022 ballot for all Texas registered voters.
Three questions must be answered to evaluate the constitutionality of each proposal…
1) Is it “constitutional”?
(Supports the constitutional republic)
2) Is there a need?
(Do all the People have a need for and benefit from the proposed government intervention?)
3) Affordability?
(Can the People afford it? Is the cost equal and uniform?)
To understand why these questions are important, see this explanation: https://ntcl.org/2013/10/13/all-laws-must-pass-the-constitutional-test/
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8 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution will be on the Nov. 2, 2021 ballot for all Texas registered voters.
Three questions must be answered to evaluate the constitutionality of each proposal…
1) Is it “constitutional”?
(Supports the constitutional republic)
2) Is there a need?
(Do all the People have a need for and benefit from the proposed government intervention?)
3) Affordability?
(Can the People afford it? Is the cost equal and uniform?)
To understand why these questions are important, see this explanation: https://ntcl.org/2013/10/13/all-laws-must-pass-the-constitutional-test/
Additionally, do you know how your elected House Representative and your Senator voted on each of these? This article will tell you on each of the 8 proposals. Please call them. Ask them why they voted the way they did.
Continue reading “8 Proposed Texas Constitution Amendments Nov. 2, 2021”
November 5th, 2019 all registered voters residing in Texas will have an opportunity to act as citizen legislators and cast a ballot “FOR” or “AGAINST” ten proposed amendments to our Texas Constitution. Ballot wording doesn’t allow space to fully inform a voter on the specific government action. This article will attempt to offer some of that missing information. Continue reading “Nov 5, 2019: Ten Proposed Texas Constitution Amendments”
TX Lege RUSHING these BAD bills through, while still no property tax relief OR Good election integrity protection
THEY’RE RUSHING THESE BILLS THROUGH – TODAY!
Here are 11 bills that promote MORE “social-emotional” school programs that rob teachers & students of precious academic class time through RESEARCH of childhood behavioral & mental health; all in the name of the Governor’s “school safety” agenda.
CALL Your 2 State LEGISLATORS (Senator & House Rep) (call YOUR Senators on the HJR and HBs, and call YOUR House Rep on the SBs)
Vote NO to…
HB 10 (Thompson, S) “TX Mental & Behavioral Health Research Institute”
HB18 (Price) Mental health training, curriculum, counseling
HB19 (Price) MH/Substance abuse resources for school districts
HB 906 (Thompson, S) Establishing a task force for school mental Health
[The above four bills are moving fastest – Please address these today! Call YOUR senator]
LOW income / LOW information families will be hurt, first.
Here’s just a handful of reasons to OPPOSE the DOZENS of mental health bills in Austin that want to involve our local school campuses, which is code for expanding the market share for the government-supported pharmaceutical companies, by creating a direct avenue for them to perform mental assessments on our children, AT SCHOOL.
Whether it’s through research funding, consulting positions for faculty, or “educational” dollars, drug companies have a major influence on our medical schools.
1992 Congressional Hearing: TX Sen Moncrief – “Hospitals would go into schools and initiate kickbacks to counselors who could find students that had mental health insurance and would then be put into that hospital.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9
“…social workers, school counselors, probation officers, crisis hotline workers and even ministers were paid to refer patients to private psychiatric hospitals. These are people we have all been taught to trust, not avoid.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9 Continue reading “SB 10 (creating the Texas MENTAL Health Care Consortium) is the wrong solution to “school safety””
4 Bills to KILL in the Texas House on Monday APR 15th
Contact your TX House member. Tell him/her..VOTE NO! on Monday on…
HB 10 / HB 18 / HB 19 / HJR 5
Here’s why on all 4 bills…. Continue reading “Vote “NO” on 4 “school safety” Bills; Monday (Apr 15th)”
QUESTION:
WHY do 9000 Texas Republicans take time away from their job and family to pay their own travel expenses and convention fees every 2 years to serve as a delegate to the largest political event in the world; the Texas State Republican Convention? There are 3 action items that are required to be completed according to the Party Rules:
a.) Election of delegates and alternates to the National Convention (in presidential election years)
b.) Election of certain Party officials
c.) Adoption of a Texas Republican Platform (busy work for useful idiots, or enforceable?) Continue reading “We CAN Hold Them Accountable”
I first read SB 10 in January this year, to prepare for a presentation to a north Texas group on how to read the thousands of bills that our state legislature introduces. I chose SB10 to use as demonstration because, as I always do every year that our legislature is in session, I try to read all the bills that my House Rep. and Senator file. In January the only bill that either of my legislators had authored was that of SB10, which eventually all 31 senators signed on as authors/co-authors. Sen. Jane Nelson is the Primary Author of SB 10.
In reading the 10 page bill I only needed to read the first page to realize Texas students were about to be mentally assessed and drugged on our local school campuses. Continue reading “Should Texans Support Psychiatric Assessments of Children in our Local Elementary Schools (SB10)?”
We all remember something about the heinous shooting at Santa Fe High School last year. Gov. Abbott announced in his State of the State address (Feb 5th) that he is “making school safety an emergency item” and put his blessings on SB 10 by Sen. Jane Nelson, this legislative session. Abbott intends “to address mental health in our schools” and “partner with school districts … to identify and remove students who pose a potential threat.” While we all want world peace the laws of nature just don’t allow it. Removing more responsibilities and freedoms (liberty) from more Texans through SB 10 will not render world peace, but it will encourage more psychotropic drug use, specifically for our children.
Continue reading “Gov. Abbott’s School Safety Priority, Gone Wrong”
