Governor Perry announced that his Special Session in the Spring (love the alliteration) will deal with reducing property taxes and that's it! No school reform because the supreme court didn't say we had to do that...they just said fix property taxes. So there! Nothing else is wrong with schools. Really, the problem is that the legislature can apparently only fix one thing at a time, and that is the lowered expectation we've come to doubt, quite frankly.
Perry doesn't miss an opportunity to talk about property tax relief without slamming Carole Keeton Strayhorn either.
"And we don't need to raise taxes one cent to generate more money for education, we just need the comptroller to collect the nearly $3 billion owed to her office today by deadbeats and tax cheats," Perry added.
Oh yeah? Well maybe we don't need Perry to call session after session that never gets anything accomplished either.
PinkDome is starting a contest for 'Guess the Call Date' on the Special. We're gonna take April 11, but we've heard as late as May 1. You pick your dates. Closest to the actual date gets a free PinkDome "Adios, Mofo" t-shirt!
(Governor Perry and his staff are not eligible for this contest, nor are employees of Dr. Leininger or one of Craddick's cronies.)
April 22
Pink said:
Really, the problem is that the legislature can apparently only fix one thing at a time, and that is the lowered expectation we've come to doubt, quite frankly.
That's bullshit.
The 2nd called session was supposed to deal with, what, school finance reform?
Look-a-here, Del-win:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/reports/subject/792/H0709.HTM
79th Legislature - 2nd Called Session
Number of Bills: 1
SR 7 Author: Averitt
Sponsor: none
Last Action: 07/26/2005 S Reported enrolled
Recognizing Bessie Coleman Day in Arlington, paying tribute to the first
African American female aviator.
Last Updated: 10/04/2005
WTF does THAT have to do with school finance? And there's sh'loads more where that came from:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/reports/subject/792/subjcode.htm
March 28. He's gonna at least want to look diligent and ready to get to work right after the primary.
Oh, btw, my personal favorite:
www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/792/billtext/SR00054F.HTM
April 25
April 11 is primary runoff election day, PD.
oops. I didn't think about a runoff. Can I change my mind?
Too bad April 1 is a Saturday, it would be so appropriate....I say April 17 - it leaves just enough time for a wham bam.
April 17
Oh man someone beat me to it. The 16th then.
I'll take April 19 (I've heard from everyone that it'll be the 17, and this is the closest slot left).
April first would be the perfect day for this joke
April 24.
April 3rd. I'm betting on my mom's birthday because that's all part of my system.
I'm going with April Fool's Day, 4.1.06, because nothing would fit our fractured sschool system better than calling an irrelevant tax-based special on a day with "fool" in the title. Go for it, Mofo!
April 14.
April 12
April 18.