{"id":28641,"date":"2018-03-14T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28641"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:10:08","slug":"did-you-oppose-it-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28641","title":{"rendered":"Did you oppose it, governor?"},"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\/2018\/03\/Abbott_special_MKC_TT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28642\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Abbott_special_MKC_TT-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Abbott_special_MKC_TT-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Abbott_special_MKC_TT-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Abbott_special_MKC_TT-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Abbott_special_MKC_TT.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How about this? A Texas legislator says Gov. Greg Abbott opposed that idiotic Bathroom Bill and didn&#8217;t want it to show up on his desk.<\/p>\n<p>So says the chairman of the House State Affairs Committee, Byron Cook, a Corsicana Republican. Cook&#8217;s panel managed to block the Bathroom Bill from clearing the House of Representatives during this past summer&#8217;s special legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>You will recall that the Bathroom Bill would have restricted the use of public restrooms by transgender individuals; it would have required them to use restrooms in accordance to the gender assigned to them on their birth certificate. So, if you&#8217;re a man who was born a woman you would have had to use the women&#8217;s restroom &#8230; and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Republican legislators determined the Bathroom Bill was &#8220;bad for business,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/03\/13\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-opposed-controversial-bathroom-bill-state-rep-sa\/\">Texas Tribune<\/a>. That&#8217;s only part of the problem with this hideous piece of legislation. It was discriminatory on its face.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Texas Senate insisted that the state should enforce a public restroom use provision. Sheesh!<\/p>\n<p>Most of me is glad the Legislature threw this bill &#8212; and please pardon the <em>intended<\/em> pun &#8212; into the proverbial crapper. A smaller part of me, though, wishes it had gotten to Abbott&#8217;s desk if only just to see if the governor opposed the bill enough to veto it.<\/p>\n<p>I want to believe Chairman Cook is right, that Gov. Abbott disliked the Bathroom Bill. However, I still wonder &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea. Maybe the governor could set the record straight and tell us himself whether he would have signed it or canned.<\/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>How about this? A Texas legislator says Gov. Greg Abbott opposed that idiotic Bathroom Bill and didn&#8217;t want it to show up on his desk. So says the chairman of the House State Affairs Committee, Byron Cook, a Corsicana Republican. Cook&#8217;s panel managed to block the Bathroom Bill from clearing the House of Representatives during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did you oppose it, governor?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2006,4642,4653,4701],"class_list":["post-28641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-texas-house-of-representatives","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28644,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28641\/revisions\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}