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So, I ran into state Rep. Four Price’s mother-in-law this week.<\/p>\n

She told me Price, R-Amarillo,\u00a0is in Austin “prefiling legislation” in advance of the next Texas Legislature, which convenes in January.<\/p>\n

“I hope he files that ban on texting while driving,” I said, adding that the state needs to get tough with those who put others in danger on our public roadways. “I agree,” she said, chiming in with a comment supporting laws that ban smoking indoors.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/opinions\/editorials\/article\/EDITORIAL-Texas-needs-ban-on-texting-while-5889014.php<\/p>\n

My hunch is that we’re going to find out — quickly, I hope — what kind of governor Greg Abbott is going to be if he gets a texting ban bill on his desk.<\/p>\n

He should sign the bill the moment it plops on his desk.<\/p>\n

As my former newspaper, the Beaumont Enterprise, noted in an editorial, Texas wouldn’t be the first to ban texting while driving. Indeed, it would be one of the last<\/em> states to do what it should have done already.\u00a0 Forty-five states have such laws on the books.<\/p>\n

Texas could have joined them, but Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a law in 2011, declaring that it “micromanaged” people’s lives.<\/p>\n

Nuts!<\/p>\n

The 2013 Legislature didn’t even pass a bill, knowing Perry would veto it again.<\/p>\n

Now we get a new governor. It is my fervent hope he resists the pressure from the right wing of his Republican Party — which well could be led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — and approves a bill that Rep. Price and others throughout the Legislature say they support.<\/p>\n

Do the right thing, ladies and gentlemen of the Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n

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