{"id":6946,"date":"2014-10-31T03:41:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6946"},"modified":"2014-10-31T03:41:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T03:41:42","slug":"now-about-that-statewide-cell-phone-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6946","title":{"rendered":"Now, about that statewide texting ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s call this election right now.<\/p>\n

Four Price is going to win re-election Tuesday to a third term in the Texas House of Representatives from House District 87.<\/p>\n

There. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, it’s time to insist that the Amarillo Republican pick up where he and his colleagues left off in 2013 regarding a statewide ban on texting while\u00a0driving motor vehicles.<\/p>\n

Price has said he supports a ban. He’s voted for it twice. The 2011 Legislature — where Price served as a freshman — approved a bill banning texting while driving and sent it to Gov. Rick Perry’s desk. But the governor said it was too “intrusive,” or some such nonsense and vetoed it.<\/p>\n

The 2013 Legislature, spooked by that veto two years earlier, didn’t get it approved.<\/p>\n

Well, Gov. Perry is going to be gone in January. He’ll be polishing himself up and getting ready for another run for the presidency — unless he gets convicted of abuse of power back home in Texas.<\/p>\n

The door is open once again for Price and his 149 House\u00a0colleagues to do what they should have been able to do by now.<\/p>\n

Ban the use of texting devices\u00a0while motorists are driving their vehicles on our state’s highways.<\/p>\n

Price is gathering some seniority in the House. He’s no stranger to the legislative process. His pal John Smithee, another Amarillo Republican, is one of the House’s senior members. He’s returning, too. The two of them can team up to strong-arm their colleagues to get this issue done.<\/p>\n

Send the bill to the new governor’s desk and insist that he or she sign it into law.<\/p>\n

It’s good for Texas.<\/p>\n

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Let’s call this election right now. Four Price is going to win re-election Tuesday to a third term in the Texas House of Representatives from House District 87. There. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, it’s time to insist that the Amarillo Republican pick up where he and his colleagues left off … Continue reading Now, about that statewide texting ban<\/span> →<\/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":[9,18],"tags":[896,898,1783,2553,3951,4653],"class_list":["post-6946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-cell-phone-ban","tag-cell-phones","tag-four-price","tag-john-smithee","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946","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=6946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}