Texas Governor Greg Abbot names a home schooling mom, Donna Bahorich,

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

as State Board of Education Chair. Texas is a very special place.

[AuntPatsy]

1. The true idiots are the ones that voted for him if in fact the election was legit which I

have my doubts

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

2. I agree. If it wasn't stolen electronically, it was stolen through shady redistricting.

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[AuntPatsy]

5. Can't help but agree to that, Texas can become surreal at times, perhaps not Texas but Texans

[Jim Lane]

10. You can't steal a statewide election for a single office through redistricting.

Legislative elections, yes, redistricting could be and has been used to thwart the popular will, but district lines are immaterial in the gubernatorial race.

[They_Live]

12. That may be true, but the voter id rules have made it

more difficult for married women and Hispanic voters with compounded names to cast their votes.
I've seen this an action at the polling place. Your voter registration card must exactly match your ID...or you must complete additional paperwork to cast your vote.

[SusanCalvin]

3. DU used to have quite a focus

On election reform. Seems to have gone by the wayside. I think a lot of elections are stolen, in many ways, all over the country.

[AuntPatsy]

7. Considering so many mindless politicians being given attention to their ramblings I cannot

help but believe you might be right

[longship]

4. She was edumacated at (the cynically named) Liberty University.

Of course, everything in the religious right world is topsy-turvy. Up is down. Right is left. By their standards "liberty" means shackles and chains.

Of course, Liberty University was founded by Jerry Falwell, of whom the ever wise Christopher Hitchens said on live TV upon Falwell's death, "If they had given him an enema they could have buried him in a matchbox."

I have no doubt that this woman is evil incarnate.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

8. I have no doubt she is part of the republican plan to destroy the public schools

and take the money.

[longship]

9. I don't think for a second that this is about money.

Not with this woman's profile. This is about putting wacko Christian poppycock into schools. History that replaces Thomas Jefferson and the Enlightenment with Thomas Aquinas and Calvin as influences for the American Revolution. And of course, no biology class should have evil Darwin.

That is what this is about, mainly. Of course, if somebody can skim a little off the top on the side, so be it.

[DhhD]

13. It is about the parent decided curriculum and coming state money for every child moving to

the control of parents, which is otherwise known as a voucher.

Parents can add Bible class to the state's approved curriculum in a private setting. Several parent-children groups get together and one parent teaches home schooling chemistry curriculum, the other teaches home schooling calculus curriculum, one teaches P.E. and Health/Abstinence, one teaches World Study/Bible Social Studies home school curriculum. It is small private schooling in the cafeteria of a church using the voucher money from the state in a home schooling education plan approved by the State Education Agency or Texas Education Agency in Texas. The aid of the Commissioner of Education is needed as that person is appointed by the Governor also.

The US Constitution says that church and state are to be separated.

[Gothmog]

6. Greg Abbott is making Perry/goodhair look bright

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

11. Maybe he's bad enough to cause a backlash.

I think one of the reasons Obama was able to win is because W was so bad.