From today’s TFN News Clips: “If what we were doing in the classrooms was that liberal, the state of Texas would be a liberal state because we’ve all been teaching for many, many years. I don’t see any evidence that Texas is a liberal state.” — Deborah Pennington, social studies coordinator for the Conroe Independent […]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “As a religious right guy, I’m thinking there was a guy named Jesus who had some things to say about these kinds of concepts. And I don’t want to live in a society that lets a few test cases die on the steps of the hospital. I can’t go there.” […]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “I found it offensive that she repeatedly brought it up. By the fourth time she mentioned it, I felt God wanted me to express how I felt about the matter, so I did. But my tone was downright apologetic. I said, ‘Regarding your homosexuality, I think that’s bad stuff.’” — […]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “I think he doesn’t understand what we’ve done. If he depended on the San Antonio newspaper and the Austin American Statesman and the Texas Freedom Network — they make us out to be awful sometimes.” — Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy, blaming the board’s poor reputation on […]
Are Texas Republicans already looking to dump Cathie Adams, the state party’s newly appointed chair? Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman writes that Adams already has an opponent in next year’s June election for party chair: Tom Mechler of Amarillo. He reports that former Texas GOP chair George Strake is backing Mechler’s bid to replace […]
