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Texas republicans must make a choice on how to proceed in the upcoming elections and decide to be true to the republican values or follow the MAGA agenda. The continued belief that the 2020 election was stolen is not a platform to stand on for the upcoming elections. There is a real threat to voter security since most of the honest election personnel have been threatened by MAGA supporters and have resigned. In Fredricksburg all the election staff have resigned and there is a real problem with how the elections will be handled. Why is it necessary for republicans to promote programs that only cause harm or distress to the people of Texas. Our governor has made it possible for everyone to have a gun and carry it without any training or education on safety. Then he says that he supports the law enforcement agencies but their first threat is that everyone has a gun. Our governor has stated that the electric grid is better but has not enforced any requirements to ensure that the grid is reliable. He has no respect for women or health of women. Texas is 51st in healthcare, 43rd in child care, 39th in education, and 35th in average salary. So tell me how Make America Great Again is working. I have not seen any improvement in my life because of MAGA policies. It has only made the rich more rich and the middle income people more stressed. Our Lieutenant governor has promoted policies to restrict books from libraries and homophobic policies that will cause people more stress in their lives. Without the mental health support what do you think will happen, more school shootings. The tragic event at the Uvalde school should never have happened if there was a ban on assault weapons. The governor has not addressed school safety in a way that will give people some belief that their children will be safe at school. Our state attorney general has been busy in filing suits against other states on election fraud without any evidence. He also wants to sue about the Mara Lago search which was caused because Trump would not respect the law and the legal request to return documents to the National Archives. Why do republicans allow some people to not follow the rule of law? Republicans, you need to decide if the rule of law is more important that one person that does not care about anyone but himself.
Read moreI hope that the Editor will consider editing letters for length, if not coherence. A rant accusing one party of things that both parties do, and implying that the “good” party does not do these things, is pretty useless as far as informing anyone of anything.
Read moreThese federal laws for you
• Social Security
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• The Civil Rights Act
• The Voting Rights Act
• The Right to Unionize
• Unemployment Benefits
• Women’s Right To Vote
Read moreIn 1951 Hannah Arendt wrote of a new totalitarianism that was emerging in our society. Not a communist or fascist totalitarianism but a technocratic totalitarianism. A kind of totalitarianism that is not led by a “Dear Leader” such as Kim Jong Il, Stalin or Hitler but by dull bureaucrats and technocrats.
Read moreEver wonder about things that just don’t make sense? I do. One of the things that makes no sense at the moment is this; Why all the back and forth in the paper and at local Republican Party meetings concerning the party’s bank statements? More importantly, why the refusal of the Chair and Treasurer to open up the Republican Party’s books. After all, the Chair of the Party has called for ‘full transparency.”
Read moreA longtime disgrace for the U.S. of A. is the unavoidable burden of indebtedness required to work through a vocational or college education, at whatever level. Forgiving these debts after their affliction is only a short-term bandaide measure which ignores the cause of the wound and does nothing to prevent the bleeding at its source. Why should public financing (barebones) of schools through the secondary level be an acceptable arrangement (though currently under duress from the privateers of the education business), yet for vocational school and college, everybody is on their own?
Read moreIn last week’s Bulletin, the Republican county chair in Bandera said a Mar A Lago type FBI raid happened during a recent Republican meeting at the China Bowl restaurant.
Read moreIs Bandera’s Republican County Chair aspiring to emulate his Inspiration – the injured, embattled innocence of his Special Master – by his claim of a “Bandera Mara- Lago” in the title to his recent, now-weekly, column? In his publicly posted ‘minutes’ of his attempted closed meeting with ‘his’ executive committee last week, indications of discord within county Republican ranks were partly laid bare. A morbidly-curious outsider could only attempt to infer what these conflicts among Republican precinct chairs might actually have been about, as the Chairman’s own melodramatic and very public account of the events could hardly be described as impartial. Was there some dispute over a conjectured replacement of some recalcitrant chairpersons with others deemed to be more compliant with certain present BCR bylaws? Should the public be allowed to see what those bylaws are, that some seem to find objectionable?
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