Category: Action Required

Eleven Bills to KILL; Seeking Access to Our Children as LabRats for Research & Training

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]

Continue reading “Eleven Bills to KILL; Seeking Access to Our Children as LabRats for Research & Training”

SB 10 (creating the Texas MENTAL Health Care Consortium) is the wrong solution to “school safety”

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””

Vote “NO” on 4 “school safety” Bills; Monday (Apr 15th)

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)”

We CAN Hold Them Accountable

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”

Why Vote, if Your Vote is Being Stolen?

Irregular vote counting procedures across Texas have been brought to light dealing with violations of Texas Statute & Texas Constitution. Both the Texas Secretary of State and the state Director of Elections are at fault.

People waiting to vote
Why Vote, if your vote is being Stolen?

The issue is not new. TheHill.com published an article “States ditch electronic voting machines” in droves.  The Texas Attorney General’s office has been asked to launch an investigation into vote fraud in Hill County, Texas.  And recently hundreds of Texas voters have been fighting the actions of the State authorizing the use of electronic voting machines that do not comply with the Texas Constitution and Texas Election Code.

Keith Ingram (state Director of Elections) has been granting waivers to counties Continue reading “Why Vote, if Your Vote is Being Stolen?”

Sen. Van Taylor’s Ethics Reform bill – TRASHED in the House

Tuesday May 27th the Texas House of Representatives came out showing their true colors by effectively killing Sen. Van Taylor’s bill to increase transparency of government officials and terminate conflicts of interest.

SB 19 by Van Taylor was passed unanimously in the senate (April 28) but is being gutted and used to further shield government actions from public eyes over in the House of Representatives, under the leadership of Speaker Joe Straus. Continue reading “Sen. Van Taylor’s Ethics Reform bill – TRASHED in the House”

How threatening is the U.S. Constitution?

When a marriage goes south, the partners don’t amend the marriage vows to keep the vows compliant with issues of infidelity.

Likewise, when the federal government violates their Oath, we must not change the words in the constitution to justify federal non-compliance.  Enforce the 10th Amendment first, and then see what America looks like. Continue reading “How threatening is the U.S. Constitution?”

Texas already has Pre-K public education for the “Disadvantaged”

If only the average Texan had the time to read the entire Education Code, the average Texan would understand all the current options available to the so-called “disadvantaged” urban School-Voucherschildren.

This blogger just found part of the Education Code that already allows for public Pre-K  (government day-care) for “disadvantaged” children as young as 3 years of age.
Sec. 29.153. FREE PREKINDERGARTEN FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN, allows for public “daycare” for children satisfying any of these requirements:
1. Unable to speak and comprehend the English language Continue reading “Texas already has Pre-K public education for the “Disadvantaged””

Why Texans don’t have faith in an Article V Convention

Texas has the independent power, without the advice or consent of any other state, to enforce the 10th Amendment

An Article V Convention won’t work to benefit the People because the same legislators who refuse to enforce the good parts in the current constitution will be the ones to propose new amendments.1787 Constitutional Convention

Did Joe Straus appoint Rep. Phil King to chair the House committee that would oversee 10th Amendment bills because King could be counted on to stall any and all good 10th Amendment action bills? Would Straus be a likely Texas delegate to an Article V Convention? The answer to both questions is a very possible yes. Continue reading “Why Texans don’t have faith in an Article V Convention”

NULLIFICATION bill-Texas Balance of Power Act

Rep. Dan Flynn (Canton), has authored legislation to create the Joint Legislative Committee on Nullification (HB 98). A gold star goes to Flynn!

The Chair of the House Select Committee on State & Federal Power & Responsibility has joint authored the bill, Rep. Phil King (Weatherford), which merits a gold star as well, because it will be Rep. King’s committee Continue reading “NULLIFICATION bill-Texas Balance of Power Act”