Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hasn’t yet given up his interventionist strategy.
He’s continuing to insist that a local Texas school district superintendent step down because he’s doing something with which the lieutenant governor disagrees.
Patrick is off base.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/10/superintendent-wont-resign-over-transgender-bathro/
The issue is Fort Worth school superintendent Kent Scribner’s decision to allow transgender boys to use girls’ restrooms.
I am going to continue to insist that Patrick’s intervention flouts the traditional Republican philosophy that calls for greater local control and fewer mandates handed down by the state.
Scribner today refused to quit, as Patrick has demanded. There’s no word yet from the elected school board that selected Scribner to run the school system on what it intends to do.
I’ll take a leap here and presume that Scribner is acting with the blessing of those who hired him.
Does that constitute a reason for the man who presides over the Texas Senate to weigh in on how a local school district should handle an internal administrative matter?
Not by a long shot.
Patrick went to Fort Worth today to say that Scribner broke state law by enacting the transgender policy. OK, so what if he did?
The school board should act independently of whatever the second-ranking state official thinks.
This issue is none of Lt. Gov. Patrick’s business.
Stop it. You don’t give a damn about big government pushing around small government. You stand up and cheer when the federal government throws its power around on issues you agree with and quashes the self rule of states and municipalities.
You said nothing about the Justice Department’s threats against North Carolina. Now you’re the champion of local rule and conservative, small government values? Doubt it. You seem to miss that you’re being every bit as big of a hypocrite when, all of a sudden, you’re for local control.
How ’bout you stop trying to tell conservatives how to best uphold beliefs you don’t agree with or understand and simply argue the merits of the issue? Oh yeah, letting students who are in every physical way still boys change and shower with twelve-year-old girls is not a winning position.
Could be why you said nothing about how this issue was conveniently left off the school board agenda, denying the voters in Fort Worth a chance to be heard on the issue. But you’re all for the local voters there right?
Other thought from the champion of local control:
“The state ought to impose a statewide ban on indoor smoking.”
https://highplainsblogger.com/?s=Smoking+ban&submit=Search
“State texting ban needs to become law now”
https://highplainsblogger.com/2015/04/texting-ban-bill-needs-to-become-law/
You want me to “stop it”? I probably won’t. Thanks.