Episode 3628: Putting teeth into laws banning electioneering by school districts | Burrows strikes $20 million GOP hornets’ nest- 12/18/2024

Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Putting a Thumb on the Scale: The Growing Alarm Over ISD Electioneering and What to Do About It. James Quintero of the Texas Public Policy Foundation joins us to offer up four changes legislators need to make to put teeth into election law that is flouted more and more brazenly by public school officials.
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Dustin Burrows created the BurrowCrat Coalition to advance his goal of becoming Texas House Speaker and in so doing whacked at the hornets’ nest of Texas G.O.P. politics. When you do such for no discernible reason other than self-advancement, you often create opposition that wouldn’t have existed otherwise – and that’s what the BurrowCrats have done: A new Texas PAC seeded with $20 million to be used to separate the Republican chaff from the grain.
A media report says that Governor Abbott will ask for even more money for his Operation Lone Star even though we were promised time and again that funding needs would be much lower if Trump policies were back in place. Legislators should say “no way!”
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