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It’s hard for me to believe I am thinking so highly of state Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland.<\/p>\n

I once exchanged testy letters with him after he engineered the ouster of Pete Laney, D-Hale Center, as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

That was then. The now<\/em> has revealed that Craddick is emerging as a good-government Republican. Evidence of that is House Bill 80, which today passed the state House, and brings the state a big step closer to banning the act of sending text messages while driving a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/03\/25\/texas-house-texting-while-driving\/<\/p>\n

Craddick is on the side of the angels in this fight. Good for him. Good for the Texas House in approving the legislation.<\/p>\n

HB 80 resembles a bill approved by the Legislature in 2011, only to be vetoed by then-Gov. Rick Perry, who called it an attempt to “micromanage” Texans’ behavior.<\/p>\n

Gov. Greg Abbott hasn’t yet weighed in on HB 80, but my sincere hope is that he signs it.<\/p>\n

Texas is among a handful of states, six of them, that haven’t approved a statewide texting-ban law. Several cities within the state — such as Amarillo — have enacted ordinances banning the insanely stupid<\/em> idea of texting while driving.<\/p>\n

The state needs to stand up for those who are threatened by the nimrods who cannot grasp the danger involved in operating a texting device while driving a 2-ton — or heavier — motor vehicle.<\/p>\n

Craddick has been at the forefront of this important legislation.<\/p>\n

I congratulate the former speaker for his guts on this issue.<\/p>\n

Now it’s the Senate’s turn. Approve the bill, send it to Gov. Abbott’s desk, and then demand<\/em> he sign it into law.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard for me to believe I am thinking so highly of state Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland. I once exchanged testy letters with him after he engineered the ouster of Pete Laney, D-Hale Center, as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. That was then. The now has revealed that Craddick is emerging as a … Continue reading Craddick leads text-ban fight<\/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":[18],"tags":[2006,3570,3951,4626,4641,4644,4653,4741,4742,4842],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-pete-laney","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas-goveernor","tag-texas-house-of-representative","tag-texas-house-speaker","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texting-while-driving","tag-texting-while-driving-ban","tag-tom-craddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","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=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}