Happy Independence Day!

On March 2, 1836, Texas’ Founding Fathers were gathered at Washington on the Brazos. Even suspecting the Alamo would soon fall and the Mexican army would be on the prowl, they nonetheless issued their Declaration of Independence. They asserted that the Mexican government had "ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people."

In the following weeks, those Texians lost more battles than they won – but they were faithful to the fight. Just six weeks after issuing the declaration, on April 21, 1836, a decisive victory at San Jacinto secured Texas’ independence as a constitutional republic.

Here is the Texas Minute for March 2, 2023.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Lawmakers Seek to Protect Women in Sports

• After passing legislation two years ago to protect female athletes in junior high and high school from having to compete against biological men in sports, State Rep. Valoree Swanson (R-Spring) now wants to expand that to include women’s college sports. Soli Rice has the story.
      
• Under the proposed law, athletes would only be allowed to compete in sports based on the biological sex written on their birth certificate.
      
• So far, a majority of House members have signed on to Swanson's legislation.

Legislation Targets City Officials Convicted Of Crimes

• Legislation introduced by State Sen. Chuy Hinojosa (D-McAllen) would create a mechanism for the removal from office of municipal leaders convicted of criminal offenses. As David Vasquez reports, those crimes include bribery, theft of public money, perjury, and tampering with official documents.
      
• In August of 2022, the mayor of the South Texas town of Peñitas, Rodrigo Lopez, pled guilty to aiding and abetting a La Joya Independent School District employee in defrauding the school district. Despite his guilty plea and conviction, Lopez then refused to leave office.
      
• Hinojosa's proposal would have the official removed on conviction – even if the individual appeals the conviction.

South Texas Teachers Arrested for Sex With Students

• Two South Texas teachers have been arrested and charged with having “improper” sexual contact with students, adding to the growing list of school employees across the state accused of sex crimes against students and other children. Erin Anderson has the details.
     
• Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District teacher Macario Zarate III was arrested and charged with improper relationship between educator and student, a second-degree felony. He is accused of engaging in criminal sexual activity with a student at PSJA Memorial Early College High School, where he taught social studies and coached track.
   

• IDEA Public Schools teacher Karen Bereniz Sosa, 27, was also arrested and charged with improper relationship between educator and student. Mission police said Sosa and the student had “sexual contact” off campus at a local park during the school’s winter break.

Where's The 'Independent' Investigation?

• Parents in scandal-plagued Prosper Independent School District want to know what happened to an “independent investigation” into last year’s shocking sexual abuse and cover-up for which no one in the district leadership has yet been held accountable. Erin Anderson has the story.
       

• Prosper ISD’s board of trustees said in January that the investigation they commissioned last September, looking into a bus driver’s months-long molestation of two elementary school girls and district administrators’ failure to notify parents, was complete. Yet attorneys representing Prosper ISD say the district has no record of the investigation.
         

• Just another public school covering up their lying about a cover-up...

Quote-Unquote

"When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression."

– Texas Declaration of Independence​

[Source: Texas Declaration of Independence]

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