Tuesday’s Dallas Morning News had two more letters bashing Republicans, vowing to never vote for a Republican again. Fine. That’s your privilege and right....
How about crime? Many Democrat-administered cities are awash in crime. Police are the bad guys, not the smash and grab criminals who get caught and are out on the streets again in 24 hours. Regarding education, indoctrinate our kids with all kinds of woke ideology.
Why not teach them personal responsibility and encourage them to work hard and have pride in achieving life goals? I could go on, but the last point for this letter is the Democrats’ nonsense about restrictive voting. How many times in a day do you need to show a driver’s license or ID as a part of a normal daily routine? Why should it be any different to enter a voting booth?As the legislative session ends and the special session has started, no mention of gun control as a solution to the mass shootings. Gov. Greg Abbott says that is an easy fix he does not want. It is as if all the killings did not happen. During this Memorial Day week, we should also mourn the death of sensibility in Texas.Re: “Tenure survives, but diversity efforts banned — Abbott is expected to sign both higher education measures,” Wednesday news story. With mass shootings, an electrical grid that’s at risk of failure during any extreme weather event, surging property taxes and any number of other serious issues, our Texas Legislature spends its limited time on eliminating DEI programs from state colleges? And attempting to do away with the one thing that draws top academic minds to universities — tenure ? Is it just me, or does anyone else think that our legislators going out of their way to permit/license bigotry at our flagship universities is going to make those schools less attractive to the state’s top students? Kids today, far more than any prior generation, don’t take kindly to bigotry, racism and sexism. Unless the Legislature’s real goal is to make 2020s’ Texas indistinguishable from 1950s’ Selma so as to encourage all the recent California transplants to move away , this is “hold my beer and watch this!” MAGA-idiocy at its “finest.”Re: “Abbott dashes hopes for investment in teachers — Take vouchers off table and raise pay to keep promise to schools,” by Stephanie S. Elizalde, May 25 Opinion. Thanking Superintendent Elizalde for her well-written opinion piece regarding the cost of vouchers to public schools, attaching dollar amounts to these subsidies and giving a synopsis of the governor’s attacks on public education. Retired and active public-school educators have known for many years where we and public education stand with Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. However, this legislative session has been the nadir of the obvious, a new low, especially with the overt attacks by the Republicans on public education and teachers, the latest of which is attaching the voucher bill to HB 100 dealing with teacher pay raises. Yet another Catch-22. Active and retired public-school employees, check your voter registration cards to assure you are still registered to vote and, if not, register now. Follow what is happening in the Legislature and vote for candidates who support public education and you, regardless of party. Teachers, whether we like it or not, it’s time to get into politics. Hopefully, it’s not too late.Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick finds it “shocking” that parents would take their kids to drag shows, so he uses that as justification for his drag show ban. Hold up, aren’t the Republicans supposedly the party of parental rights? They say that parents should be the ones in control of their child’s sex education, so by that logic, if a parent has the right to tell their kids that gay people don’t exist, shouldn’t they also have the right to take their kids to drag shows? Republicans need to stop with the red herrings and just admit that the footnote to “parental rights” is “only if Republicans also agree with it.”I am a firm advocate that only the military and the police should have semi-automatic weapons. Laws should have been enacted that do not allow purchases of them by anyone else. Democrats are demanding that the Republicans vote to ban automatic weapons. Up until a few months ago, Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency. They controlled all three for two years yet did nothing. Why did they not enact legislation banning the sales of automatic weapons? When they had control of all three, they did nothing but now blame Republicans. How soon they forget.Re: “Don’t make Dallas Atlantic City,” by Harry Bomberger, Tuesday Letters. Kudos to Bomberger for his letter about Dallas becoming another Atlantic City. Oh, and by the way, according to this Texas Tribune story, not all of the money from the Texas Lottery goes toward funding the state’s public schools.
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