Allison lost his primary last year, after being targeted by his party over his vote to kill school vouchers.
Here's how to get fabulous items to make life around the house easier, more organized and tidy — all while saving big.Sign up for The BriefLast session Allison, a former Alamo Heights ISD board president, was one of 21 Republicans in the Texas House who joined Democrats ingovernor demanded school vouchers“When have to lay off staff, lay off teachers, discontinue programs, that is moving towards a breaking point,” Allison said in a Dec. 18 interview. “this last session.
This last session, going into it, I thought if there was any place we had a consensus, it was to fix education, improve education and address the needs that we know are there. And we didn’t do it because it got bogged down. I blame the governor 100%. This “school choice” thing, as likes to call it — I don’t care what you want to call it, it’s a voucher — that is totally separate, and they ought to be kept separate.
This past session, I was put on the Select Committee on Sustainable Property Tax Relief. On the border, I was on Appropriations and I supported and voted for every request made. It got sizable. We spent a lot of money on the border. But I supported it. So for him to come back and say I was not supportive on the border, or weak on property taxes, it’s just outrageous.
I met with , talked to her several times. She was very strong on education. Strong on health care. She had a health care background. Those are two very important things to me, but particularly education. I get so very frustrated over the single-issue mentality, people getting bogged down over a single issue and being blind to everything else and voting just over a single issue … but I don’t see education that way at all.
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