{"id":14518,"date":"2016-05-11T02:16:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14518"},"modified":"2016-05-11T02:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:16:06","slug":"lt-gov-patrick-renews-inappropriate-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14518","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Gov. Patrick renews inappropriate intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Patrick-Scribner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14519\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Patrick-Scribner-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick-Scribner\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Patrick-Scribner-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Patrick-Scribner-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Patrick-Scribner.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hasn&#8217;t yet given up his interventionist strategy.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s continuing to insist that a local Texas school district superintendent step down because he&#8217;s doing something with which the lieutenant governor disagrees.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick is off base.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/05\/10\/superintendent-wont-resign-over-transgender-bathro\/\">https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/05\/10\/superintendent-wont-resign-over-transgender-bathro\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The issue is Fort Worth school superintendent Kent Scribner&#8217;s decision to allow transgender boys to use girls&#8217; restrooms.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to continue to insist that Patrick&#8217;s intervention flouts the traditional Republican philosophy that calls for greater local control\u00a0 and fewer mandates handed down by the state.<\/p>\n<p>Scribner today refused to quit, as Patrick has demanded. There&#8217;s no word yet from the elected school board that selected Scribner to run the school system on what it intends to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take a leap here and presume that Scribner is acting with the blessing of those who hired him.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick went to Fort Worth today to say that Scribner broke state law by enacting the transgender policy. OK, so what if he did?<\/p>\n<p>The school board should act independently of whatever the second-ranking state official thinks.<\/p>\n<p>This issue is none of Lt. Gov. Patrick&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hasn&#8217;t yet given up his interventionist strategy. He&#8217;s continuing to insist that a local Texas school district superintendent step down because he&#8217;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&#8217;s decision to allow transgender boys to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lt. Gov. 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