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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the One Click Survey asks about your favorite way to prepare the turkey. (Not every survey has to be political!)

Here is today's Texas Minute.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

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.

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. 
      

• Texas Scorecard previously reported 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 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 (R-Bedford)

• Why 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 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 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 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.
        

• “Austin should be its [own] city, not a San Francisco copycat,” Musk tweeted Sunday. His comment was in response to a Fox News article 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, 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 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 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 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.  

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