Straight from the heart of Texas yesterday, a few clear headed lawmakers got into the act.
Rep. Debbie Riddle (R) thinks that it should be against the law for any
governing body of a municipality, the commissioners court of a county, or a sheriff, municipal police department, municipal attorney, county attorney, district attorney, or criminal district attorney
to not enforce immigration laws. In other words, adios sanctuary cities.
Sen. John Carona (R) has proposed tightening up the law for vehicles carrying gravel and such. Good. I’m tired of chipped windshields.
Sen. Glen Hegar (R) has proposed eliminating the ability of tax appraisers to increase your appraisals for each year that your property was not re-appraised. In other words, they could no longer increase your appraisal 20 or 30 %, just the current 10% cap.
Yeah, yeah, I know, pretty slim pickin’s. At least there wasn’t another Po’ Folks Bill of Rights or a day honoring a thug.
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Quick
Ask Debbie why she never proposed it in her other 3 or 4 terms….
also ask her where the tax cap is
EPJ
PUT THE CUP DOWN AND WALK AWAY FROM THE COFFEE POT!
You seem to be inteligent, you just spend most of your effort to argue and irritate.
You are giving us tin foil hat wearers a bad name!
The windshield chip repair lobby will be against the gravel truck law.
So, its against the law not to enforce a law. What if they choose not to enforce that law? Will we need a law to enforce a law that is not being enforced to make it illegal not to enforce a law?
The proposed legislation is pretty but actions sure would be prettier. Unfortunately certain leaders won’t let things get out of hand by allowing for a debate and a vote. You don’t want to be on record voting for or against anything because it might come back to haunt you. Doing the right thing is not on some of the politician’s agenda but getting reelected is. Having Dan there gives us a seat to the inter workings of state government and that is a good thing.
#2
Sorry
Just have asked Riddle’s office for years to come to Cy-Fair, Spring and Klein ISD meetings and speak out against all those bond issues raising everyone’s taxes and then she has these lunches with the administrations away from the publics eye.
And then she’s yelling Amen with Dan about appraisal caps
We need less symbolism and more substance 6 years of symbolism has not helped the taxpayers.
This should be her last chance or I swear I finding someone to replace her and I’m deadly serious and now she knows it and I know her husband and daughter read this so they can tell mommy.
For anyone who is looking for a guideline for politician or public administrator (or anyone in any position for that matter), look to Psalm 15, which I have nicknamed “The Politician’s Psalm”. I’m thinking about changing the nick to “The Voter’s Psalm”. Whether you are religious or not, it contains some very good guidelines:
A psalm of David. LORD, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain?
2
Whoever walks without blame, doing what is right, speaking truth from the heart;
3
Who does not slander a neighbor, does no harm to another, never defames a friend;
4
Who disdains the wicked, but honors those who fear the LORD; Who keeps an oath despite the cost,
5
lends no money at interest, accepts no bribe against the innocent. Whoever acts like this shall never be shaken.
/not holding breath
Let’s at least send them an email for beginning to see the light.
Link to contact Hegar about Bill SB 391:
http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist18/dist18.htm
Link to contact Riddle about Bill HB 1012:
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/email.php?dist=150&rep=debbie.riddle
#5;
“This should be her last chance or I swear I finding someone to replace her and I’m deadly serious and now she knows it and I know her husband and daughter read this so they can tell mommy.”
What the hel* is the meaning of that weird statement?
Have I missed something here?
Somebody, please explane the above?
rj
I am surprised that Dan Patrick would introduce a bill that reads:
“By:AAPatrick, Dan S.B.ANo.A393
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT relating to creating a recognition day in honor of election volunteers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASubchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 662.053 to read as follows:
Sec.A662.053.AAVOLUNTEERS FOR DEMOCRACY DAY. (a) The second Tuesday in January of each year is Volunteers for Democracy Day in honor of the precinct chairs and other election volunteers who make valuable contributions to the nation ’s democratic system.
(b)AAVolunteers for Democracy Day shall be regularly observed by appropriate ceremonies.
SECTIONA2.AAThis Act takes effect September 1, 2007.”
Don’t we have enough meaningless “days” where politicians spend our money to celebrate this or that for the purpose of their own self-aggrandizement? I have been an election judge for a number of years and don’t have any interest in some politician spending my money to pat me on the back for something I didn’t do for them, anyway. Has Sen Patrick already been co-opted by Austinthink?
And how about those bills to make it a misdeameanor to miss your child’s parent-teacher conference, and to enact some state-wide smoking ban.
“Texas - Home of the Rugged Individualist.” Right. That ship has sailed.
#10 RickG
Do you really think that qualifies as Dan being co-opted? I think he’s just in a good mood!
11 bigjolly
That bill is only a symptom. If you skim through what all those senators are filing, it becomes clear that much of their time is spent on things having absolutely no value to all but five or six Texans. How many bills can we pass “commending” Eleanor Tinsley for her many years of public service or Vince Young for his athletic prowess.
I couldn’t even get through the list because the profusion of meaningless measures was making me ill.
Is this what we send them to Ausin for? How much do these worthless pieces of legislation cost the taxpayer each session (thank God they don’t meet every year)?
But then, I’m not in a very good mood, so consider the source.
11 bigjolly
And I just saw that Al Gore has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, I guess the world really is about to end. . .
Re: bill on parent/teacher conferences
It doesn’t sound like this is the same situation, as a parent/teacher conference is not nearly as important as an ARD meeting. As the mother of a kid with special needs (HEADS UP: if you have a young child prone to ear infections or fluid in the ears, treat it aggressively - it screws up your child’s ability to learn language skills for years), I must attend at least one Admission, Review, and Dismissal meeting each year as part of a committee to review my child’s progress (or lack thereof), evaluations, and to put together an educational plan so that one day, he will be educated enough to hold down a job and won’t have to live in a shack in my back yard. Anyway, my son’s LD was so severe that he actually had to go into a program for the partially deaf for two years. HISD fought us tooth and nail, but we got him in, and it was the best thing we ever did for him. The speech pathologist (incredibly sweet woman) was giving me some information one day and the grilling from my end went on for almost an hour. I apologized for taking up so much of her time, and she told me that she wished more parents were like us. Most of the parents with handicapped and LD kids at her school wouldn’t even come in for the once-a-year meeting to review their child’s educational skills. The only way they could get them to come in was to grab them during the Christmas giveaway,pull them into a room, have a 5-minute meeting, have them sign some papers, and then let them leave with their gifts from Be An Angel.
Now, THOSE parents should be charged with parental malpractice. Their children desperately need their involvement, and they can’t be bothered. This makes them future welfare dependents, not to mention what this does to their self-esteem. I’ll never forget the day that my son’s whole class got so excited when they realized his parents were there (for a meeting we called) that they couldn’t control themselves. For parents to show up was a reason for celebration for these kids. And those parents can’t make it for one meeting a year.
Children are not luggage.
/spits
Where is Glen Hegar on protecting the citizens who win appraisal reductions from being sued by their own chief appraiser? When he chimed in on the Wharton County issue on the EDD Hendee PAt Gray show, he was all sympathetic “this was never the intent of the legislature” blah blah Well, Glenn, you were there when the law was passed… You were our State Rep then and you are our Senator now, and you are still doing nothing for your homeowner constituents.
Free the Wharton 19!
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