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Friday, July 10, 2009
Update: Opposition is in full panic mode: I don’t like to say “I told you so”, but the usual small group of Austin critics are already unleashing their fury on Gail Lowe, loosely throwing around words like “personal beliefs” and “creationist” (unsubtle code words for their targeted attack on Lowe for her religious beliefs) in their unhinged verbal attack of [...]
Thursday, June 4, 2009
From the front lines of the Texas Legislature: Despite a change in D.C. and a more liberal coup in the Texas House (which helped many dangerous bill have progress that would have previously never moved an inch), there is good news to report, but also some unfinished business. It must be noted that even though [...]
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Call YOUR STATE SENATOR NOW AND ASK HE/SHE TO : SUPPORT DON MCLEROY FOR SBOE CHAIRMAN-he’s been under attack by one Austin fringe group for his personal religious beliefs and statements he made at church at Sunday school. SUPPORT THE CHOOSE LIFE LICENSE PLATE as an amendment to HB 300. Sen. Carona will proposed the Choose [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009
1. Don McLeroy, State Board of Education member, needs your help to be CONFIRMED as chairman of the SBOE, which requires a 2/3rds of the 31 Texas State Senators to vote in favor of him. His nomination as chairman was approved yesterday bythe Senate Nominations committee. Don McLeroy has been unfairly attacked by some because [...]
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
HB 710, on final House Reading, failed to pass by a vote of 71-73. This is the final House vote for this bill, so this should be it for this issue. Their is an identical bill in the Senate, SB 513, by Rodney Ellis. It has not moved at all so it is probably too [...]
Monday, March 30, 2009
Click here for more details on this huge VICTORY regarding Science, censorship, and evolution. http://texaslegislativeupdate.com/2009/03/30/setting-the-record-straight-on-science-correcting-some-misleading-media-reports/ Click here for more analysis. http://texaslegislativeupdate.com/2009/03/27/surprise-science-censorship-not-over-yet/
Monday, March 23, 2009
This Wednesday is the last chance for Texas Citizens to SAVE TEXAS SCIENCE! Click here for TALKING POINTS https://www.freemarket.org/Legislature_Issues_SBOEtalkingpoints.aspx The State Board of Education (SBOE) has their last hearing on that day and the final vote on the “strengths and weaknesses” language for all science theories will be taken the following day. Click here for [...]
Thursday, March 19, 2009
7:00 p.m. — Hearing over. I apologize for the small amount of updates. My live radio interview with Adam McManus went through 40 minutes of the public testimony time in SB 182. Sen. Patrick really put the pro-abortion folks on the spot about admitting that performing an ultrasound is standard medical care before performing an [...]
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Rep. Wayne Christian has filed HB 4224. Click Here for Press Release. representative-wayne-christian-supports-strong-science This bill bascially confirms that the 20 year standard of teaching the “strengths and weaknesses” of all scientific theories, including evolution, in public school will continue. In January, by one vote, the SBOE voted to remove the words “critique” and “weakneses” from the [...]
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