Interestingly, when he was elected he initially picked staffers from among friends, and business and football colleagues. He didn’t work with the Alabama GOP to give the insiders their patronage jobs, as is expected. So he’s not well-liked in the establishment hereabouts.
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And there I was thinking there was only one way to do nepotism. I guess it matters whose palm you grease and what you give it to hold.
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The only person speaking publicly about it – Erin Lee, the mother of a kid who went to the meeting – didn’t attend it herself and appears to be speaking from a place of bias against LGBTQ+ people. She claims her daughter was tricked into attending the GSA meeting.
Tricked. Sure. Uh huh. Sounds like a healthy family environment.
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I guess he’s never heard of the 14 Amendment.
Texas tried that with immigrant kids.
Player vs Doe
(Brennan, J.) By a 5–4 vote, the Court concluded that the Texas legislation violated the Equal Protection Clause. The Court explained that “education has a fundamental role in maintaining the fabric of our society” and “provides the basic tools by which individuals might lead economically productive lives to the benefit of us all.”
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Great, I’d guess. I have liberal friends who watched, just to gawk at the trainwreck.
I imagine CNN execs are scurrying to schedule another one.
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Secret clubs talking about sex with kids.
- Talking about sexuality is not the same as talking about sex.
- Talking about gender is not the same as talking about sex.
And
- In every school my kid has attended, GSA has stood for “Gay-Straight Alliance.’ But maybe they do things differently in Colorado.
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For every great idea, there’s an equal and opposite lobby group?
I’m guessing, but big money buying up agricultural land isn’t going to like the idea of successful urban projects to grow food, especially high-end produce.
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The Texas House of Representatives voted yesterday to pass Senate Bill 763, a delightful little assault on the Constitution’s Establishment Clause that Texas lawmakers think might have a chance to win approval from the Alito Court, which last year decided school prayer was just peachy as long as it conforms with the “history and traditions” of whatever the Court thinks the Constitution means in any given case. SB 763 will allow school districts to hire “school chaplains” to provide the services that would normally be provided by a school counselor, only without the oppressive educational and professional certifications required of counselors.
It’s a really short bill, too! It adds this new bit to the state’s Education Code:
SCHOOL CHAPLAINS. A school district or an open-enrollment charter school may employ or accept as a volunteer a chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students as assigned by the board of trustees of the district or the governing body of the school. A chaplain employed or volunteering under this chapter is not required to be certified by the State Board for Educator Certification.
The bill also inserts a line that amounts to “and chaplains” to various parts of the education law discussing the duties of school counselors, including sections on providing mental and behavioral health support to students, as well as suicide prevention and intervention services. So when a student in a Texas school is in crisis, the person who they talk to might be a counselor with a master’s degree, extensive training, and a state teacher’s license, or it might be Volunteer Pastor Larry from the Potter’s House.
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Big money likes profits, and there are other ways to make money from land without growing food on it. They could change to trees, water extraction, fake carbon offset preserve…so many possibilities! 
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It wasn’t a debate and there were no opposing views presented. That makes it a campaign ad and should be investigated as an undeclared campaign donation worth millions of dollars.
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It’s possible that they prefer traditional farming: serfs working the fields.
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I’d say that the GOP establisment in both our states seem to be tolerating the far right jackasses who keep getting into power down here (Tuberville, MTG). I think they are loath to do anything about them, and want the Democrats to some how take care of them? They know that if they speak out or bring these extremists to heel, they’ll feel a backlash from their supporters…
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IIRC, things like the Fairness Doctrine (such as it is) and such don’t apply to cable tv.
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Does that even apply here? What’s the cost of one hour on CNN? Did the campaign pay it? I don’t see how fairness doctrine even matters.
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Well, the dead doctrine certainly doesn’t apply.
And CNN, no surprise, doesn’t miss it.
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It wouldn’t depend on the Fairness Doctrine. If there was no opposing candidate, be it primary or general election/campaign, and no one representing an opposing candidate, then it wasn’t a debate in any format. That makes it a free campaign ad. And that would need to be declared as such by both the campaign and CNN.
Their only way to avoid this would be to offer equal time to Biden or a Republican challenger like Desantis (who hasn’t declared, yet, IIRC).
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I imagine they’ll do both.
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