Texas News You Can Use - The Week In Review

Posted on June 17, 2007
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Well, this week we look back on Governor Perry’s decision to veto HB 2006, the Eminent Domain bill. City leaders, the Texas Municiple League, The Association of Cities and Counties were wanting this bill vetoed and Governor Perry happily agreed by vetoing HB 2006.  HB2006 would have prevented this from happening. I personally emailed the Governor, just like I ask everyone here too, and asked him to sign HB 2006 into law. I received a form letter from Dede Keith of the Administrative and Constituent Services dept. saying

Thank you for taking the time to contact the Office of the Governor regarding HB 2006. I have shared your correspondence with our legislative and Budget, Planning and Policy division staff. Governor Perry is closely reviewing all bills that are sent to his desk by the legislature.

Now I didn’t need to have a magnifiying glass to see that this letter really meant “Thanks for writing, it’s in the Governors Best Interest to sign this Bill and no citizens interest are not going to stop him”

In Baytown this week, there were 4 kids killed in a car accident early one morning around 4 a.m. A 15 year old boy presumably snuck out of the house and stole a vehicle and he along with another 15 year old, a 3-14 year olds and a 12 year old all went joy riding. There was a stopped train on the tracks that the kid driving did not see and their vehicle slammed under it, killing the 14 year olds and the 12 year old girl.

My heart grieves for the Families of those kids. As a Father myself, I can’t imagine the grief they must be going through. This is one reason I’m cutting them some slack when they started blaming the railroad for the accident.

Furthermore, the Father of the 12 year old said he knew they planned on sneaking out, but he couldn’t stop them. He told the media…

“The only thing I can say is my daughter made a bad decision,” said Dawson Moyers, Macy’s father. “I knew they were planning on sneaking out. I saw that part before she disabled me on her MySpace. I saw that they were making plans. I tried to stop those plans.”

I’d like to say a lot more than I’m saying here but out of respect, I’m not. All I will say is that there were some parents who let their kids down. Don’t blame the railroad, don’t blame the car manufacturer. If you want to blame someone, blame the person looking back at you in the mirror. It’s absurb to say you couldn’t stop your 12 year old from sneaking out. It’s your job to watch your kids, not the Railroad company’s.

In Dallas, they nearly elected a openly Gay Mayor. However, as usual the election was not nearly as close as those on the Left and those in the Media wanted it to be. Ed Oakley, the gay councilman, lost by 13,000 or so votes. Instead, Dallas chose retired Businessman Tom Leppert to lead the 9th largest city in the United States.

Personally, after the last elections, I believe it’s only a matter of time before Dallas joins Austion as being the Liberal leaders of Texas. Of course, that can be said with any large Metro area of Texas due to the demographics of such cities.

A Professor from A&M - Corpus Christi loses a flash drive with the personal information on about 8,000 former and current students while in Madagascar.

According to the Corpus Christi Times Caller:

Department of Mathematics Chairman Blair Sterba-Boatwright took the flash drive with him on a two-week vacation and discovered it was missing as he was packing to go home, Collins said.

My question is, why did the good Professor have a flash drive with personal information on 8,000 students, including social security numbers, with him on vacation? Do any of you take such things from the people you work for when you go on vacation? I didn’t think so. This smells.

President Bush is trying to revive the Illegal Immigration Amnesty Bill again. Someone please help me understand this man’s way of thinking? Nearly every freakin’ poll I see says something along the lines of 80 to 90% of the U.S. Citizens are against this Amnesty Bill. I don’t know, maybe President Bush is confused with the 80 to 90% of illegal Mexicans who are in favor of it?

Folks, you need to contact both your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators and make sure they understand that you want them to block this bill! Don’t sit on your ass and do nothing. That makes you no better than the illegal aliens. Actually, it makes you less than the illegal aliens because they do contact people who can help get bills like this one passed.

Texas Monthly list Dan Patrick, State Senator from Katy, as one of the Top 10 Worse Lawmakers. Like naming a conservative as a “worse lawmaker” would come as a surprise from the Texas Monthly. Yep, Ole Dan doesn’t know how to play the game. What was he thinking of trying to roll back property taxes, put a cap on State government spending, stop Uncle Sam from taking our land at will and a host of other conservative measures. You see, Dan Patrick is actually one of a handful of Texas Politicians who did what the people sent him to office to do, which is to represent the people of Texas, not specials interest groups with Left or Right wing agendas or to further their political careers. Seems like Texas Monthly has a problem with politicians who actually stand up to the status quo and do what they were sent to Austin to do. (hint: if you’ve ever seen most of the people they have on the Editorial staff, you’d understand their anti-conservative stance)

And that’s about all the big stories I remember from the past week. Stay tuned, I’m sure more will pop up soon, after all, this is Texas.

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