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Among the ballot questions that will be on the 2022 GOP Primary ballot is one dealing with the Republican practice in Austin of allowing Democrats to chair major committees in the House and Senate. We ask about that in today’s One Click Survey.

First, here is today's Texas Minute.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Tuesday, December 14, 2021
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Meet The Texan Fighting Against Parents

• Following the National School Boards Association’s letter comparing parents protesting school policies to “domestic terrorism,” multiple state school board associations withdrew their membership or their dues from the NSBA. However, the Texas Association of School Boards has not withdrawn either membership or dues – all of which it pays out of taxpayer funds.
   
• Sydnie Henry reveals that might be because of Viola Garcia, the Texan who runs the NSBA.
   
• A former president of TASB, Garcia has been serving on the Aldine ISD board of trustees for 29 years. She was selected as the NSBA president in April of this year.
     
• In September, Garcia co-signed the letter to President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland that called for federal authorities to investigate parents as domestic terrorists. Garcia was immediately appointed by the Biden Administration to the National Assessment Governing Board, which “oversees the only ongoing, nationally representative assessment of what American students know and can do in various subjects.”
   

• The America First Legal Foundation is “calling for an investigation into Garcia’s potential quid pro quo appointment to the NAGB.”

Ready for the Races?

• The stage is now set for candidates seeking their party’s nomination for elected positions up and down the ballot in the March 1 Primary Election.
     
• The 2022 election year will be a busy one in the Lone Star State – especially in the Republican Primary. Jeramy Kitchen looks at the matchups that find incumbents being challenged predominantly from the right.  This cycle, almost every statewide elected official finds themselves having to fend off multiple challenges from their own party.
   
• For example, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick finds himself challenged by five other candidates in the Republican primary, including longtime conservative activist and former President of the Texas Eagle Forum Trayce Bradford, the Texas Nationalist Movement President Daniel Miller, and Aaron Sorrell among others.
     

• The primary election is currently scheduled for March 1, 2022. Early voting begins February 14, 2022, and lasts until February 25, 2022. The winner of the primary election for each position on the ballot goes on to face each political party’s nominee in the November 8, 2022, general election.

Profile: ‘The Accidental Activist’

• Layla Caraway calls herself an “accidental activist.” Armed with a fiery smile, she has been fighting against a Fort Worth congresswoman’s real estate redevelopment boondoggle in Fort Worth. Robert Montoya profiles Layla’s dogged fight against cronyism and corruption.
   
• “Everyone can make a difference in their community; you just have to be willing to show up and put in the effort.” – Layla Caraway

EXPOSED Premieres Dec. 20!

• The first season of Exposed will examine the transformation of “safe, suburban” Round Rock ISD, based in Republican Williamson County, into a hotbed of leftist indoctrination where troubling incidents have been swept under the rug.

ONE CLICK SURVEY

In yesterday’s Texas Minute, Brandon Waltens reviewed the various GOP ballot questions. Perhaps the most procedurally important deals with committee chairmanships in the Legislature. Here’s the language Republicans will find on the GOP Primary ballot:

“The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should end the practice of awarding committee chairmanships to Democrats.”

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