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– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Tuesday, September 15, 2020
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• Texas Scorecard’s Erin Anderson spoke with an East Texas bar and restaurant owner who is fighting against Gov. Greg Abbott’s unilateral shutdown orders and arbitrary coronavirus regulations. Tee Allen, co-owner of the Machine Shed Bar and Grill in Kilgore, says the experience has convinced her to pay attention to politics—and to vote for President Donald Trump in November.
   
• “I never voted because I didn’t think it mattered... This year, I learned that it matters. It matters if you vote.” – Tee Allen

• After liberals attempted this week to insert highly sexualized “LGBTQ+” and pro-abortion material into the state’s public school health curriculum, Texas’ State Board of Education voted on Friday to table the radical plan. Brandon Waltens has the details.
   
• The elected SBOE voted 9-6 to maintain Texas’ abstinence-based focus on sex education.

• Treating city hall fights as though they were major wrestling events, many in the Dallas media are obsessing over the conflicts erupting among Mayor Eric Johnson, city staff, and the city council. But, as Robert Montoya writes, the real conflict is not what is going on in city hall—it’s about the concerns of the political class versus those of the citizens.
   
• “City hall fights billed as wrestling matches don’t amount to a hill of beans when citizens are finding they now have to fear riots, violent crime, and being taxed out of their home or apartment—in addition to all of the ways life is already beating them down.” – Robert Montoya

• In a new commentary, Rolando Rios explains how citizens in Rockport are fighting back after the city’s mayor used the coronavirus as an excuse to finance a new city hall building without input from voters.
   
• “Many members of the community, still reeling after Hurricane Harvey and the COVID-19 economic crisis, were shocked to learn they would soon be facing over $40 million in debt for an extravagant government complex and would have no say in the matter.” – Rolando Rios

• Writing at Texas Right to Life, Jonathan Richie notes that the social “Black Lives Matter” push specifically does not include abortion, in which black babies and mothers make up a disproportionate share of the victims.
     
• “Overall in America, there were 862,000 babies killed by abortion in 2017, which means an average of 2,362 a day. Statistically, in 2016 (the most recent year for which data exists), 38% of abortions were by black women. Thus, an estimated 898 black babies die every single day, and as many as 327,560 per year.” – Jonathan Richie

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