{"id":56304,"date":"2023-12-10T02:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56304"},"modified":"2023-12-10T02:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:19:06","slug":"game-over-gov-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56304","title":{"rendered":"Game over, Gov. Abbott"},"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>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hasn&#8217;t yet disclosed whether he plans to summon the Legislature for a fifth special session.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that he calls it a day, surrenders to the reality that his cherished school voucher program is DOA, that the House of Reps isn&#8217;t going to go along with his notion of robbing public education of money to benefit private schools.<\/p>\n<p>He can wait until the 2025 Legislature to try again, even though it will remain a bad idea in two years.<\/p>\n<p>Rural GOP lawmakers bristled at the notion of taking money from public schools. Why? Because the school system is the heart and soul of many of these communities. I endorse their resistance.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Gov. Abbott needs to call it quits on this notion.<\/p>\n<p>Our Legislature comprises Texans who have day jobs when they&#8217;re not legislating. It&#8217;s expensive to the state to call them back. It&#8217;s also expensive to many of our lawmakers who need to put their working lives on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Give it up, Gov. Abbott.<\/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 Gov. Greg Abbott hasn&#8217;t yet disclosed whether he plans to summon the Legislature for a fifth special session. My hope is that he calls it a day, surrenders to the reality that his cherished school voucher program is DOA, that the House of Reps isn&#8217;t going to go along with his notion of robbing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Game over, Gov. Abbott<\/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":[6251,9,18],"tags":[2006,3766,10293,4622],"class_list":["post-56304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-public-education","tag-school-vouchers","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56304","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=56304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56305,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56304\/revisions\/56305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}