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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

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For What It Is Worth… This is the last day to vote on the eight statewide constitutional amendments. Here’s my take on them [[link removed]].

Parents Find Porn In School Libraries... Abbott Writes A Letter

As Texas parents are discovering explicit and pornographic material being distributed in public school libraries, Gov. Greg Abbott has now responded by writing a letter to the non-governmental Texas Association of School Boards. Jeramy Kitchen has the story [[link removed]].

Texas Scorecard previously reported [[link removed]] on the highly explicit graphic novel / comic book called “Gender Queer" depicting adolescents performing various sex acts.

A few days later, Republican State Rep. Jeff Cason (Bedford) requested [[link removed]] that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton open a statewide investigation into explicit books in school libraries.

Yesterday, Gov. Abbott sent a letter to the TASB Executive Director Dan Troxell, reminding him that the membership of his organization has a purview over whether explicit material can exist in public school libraries for consumption by Texas students.

"Asking a politicized TASB is not really going to accomplish much, but it does look good on Twitter." – State Rep. Jeff Cason [[link removed]] (R-Bedford) Why [[link removed]] a non-governmental "association" instead of the Texas Education Agency? Why not order funds be withheld from school districts until they certify no pornography or sexually explicit materials are in their libraries?

This echoes [[link removed]] Abbott's non-response to Texans frustrated by his inaction on children being psychologically coerced into gender mutilation surgeries and forced to take puberty-blocking drugs. Rather than set the issue on the agenda of the legislature's three special sessions, Abbott sent a letter ASKING a state agency [[link removed]] if gender surgeries on children constituted child abuse. No action, just a letter asking a question. Collin County To Abbott: 2020 Audit Now

Republicans in one of the most conservative counties in Texas are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott "to perform a FULL forensic audit of the 2020 Elections." Erin Anderson reports [[link removed]] Gov. Abbott has not responded to the resolution passed by the Collin County Republican executive committee.

Tarrant’s Republican Party executive committee members are set to vote on a similar resolution later this week.

Both Collin County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet and Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia told Texas Scorecard in August they have no objections to any audit conducted in accordance with state laws.

Elon Musk To Austin: Don't Become San Francisco

As a pivotal election fight unfolds in Texas’ capital city, Tesla CEO and California refugee Elon Musk is urging Austinites not to decay into the place he just fled. Jacob Asmussen has the details [[link removed]].

“Austin should be its [own] city, not a San Francisco copycat,” Musk tweeted [[link removed]] Sunday. His comment was in response to a Fox News article [[link removed]] about the current community debate in Austin over the “defund the police” movement. Candidate Devine Nubia Devine becomes the third candidate in the GOP race for Texas House District 19, an open seat election created in the newly drawn legislative map. As Jeramy Kitchen reports [[link removed]], Devine is a longtime religious freedom activist and former legislative staffer. She is also the wife of Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine.

She joins two other announced [[link removed]] candidates in the race, former Austin City Councilwoman Ellen Troxclair and Austin police officer Justin Berry, who both changed course from other campaigns to instead campaign for the newly drawn district.

Last week, State Rep. Kyle Biedermann (R-Fredericksburg) announced [[link removed]] he would not be seeking re-election in 2022. Though he currently represents Texas House District 73, he was placed in the newly drawn Texas House District 19.

Martin: Parents Being Doxxed Education policy analyst Emory Martin writes [[link removed]] that parents at the center of the mask mandate lawsuit with Fort Worth ISD are being attacked on social media and doxxed... by the co-chairman of FWISD’s Racial Equity Committee. ONE CLICK SURVEY

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Number of the Day

48

Number of governors of Texas since it became a state, including Greg Abbott.

[Source: Office of the Governor]

Quote-Unquote

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

– Sun Tzu

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