April 18, 2006
Exhaustive coverage of the Texas Lege special session
By 'exhaustive' I mean it's going to wear me out. I hate the Lege because they're all a bunch of clowns and calling a session 'special' is extraordinarily appropriate. Pink Dome is actually covering the hell out of the damn thing and the crew over at BOR is working it as well. So, rather than reinvent the wheel...
Pink Dome was liveblogging the opening day and I have no idea if they're doing it again. Here's a good run down of the R education bills that (OMG! I'm Shocked!) don't really do anything other than get the TX SC off their backs. Seriously, education needs new, permamanent money to stave off the decline and bring Texas back to world class in education.
Karl - Thomas Musselman at BOR has a good post up about the bills written by Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Fort Worth) that is spot on. Burnam and Scott Hochberg are both tremendous Democratic assets. They both know not only what needs to be done, they can turn around and sell it to Democrats AND moderate R's (the few in the TX Lege).
"My income tax bill provides substantial tax relief for 90% of Texans—not just for those with the highest incomes," said Rep. Burnam. "The additional revenue, raised entirely from those Texans who can most easily afford it, would reduce property taxes and provide nearly $2 billion in new money for Texas schools. That would allow us to raise teacher salaries to the national average (a $6,000 raise) and still have several hundred million dollars left over."
Tax relief AND new money for education. ROCK ON REPRESENTATIVE BURNAM! Seriously, click on Burnam or Hochberg and send them a thank you!
Posted by mcblogger at April 18, 2006 01:00 PM
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