Feb 23, 2021 |
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick always seems to get it right … at first. Here’s a list of the Texas Senate’s bills by number and priority. You can’t argue with the first three: The budget, reforming ERCOT and power grid stability. The budget is what the Legislature does every two years and considering what happened last week, ERCOT and the power grid failures affected almost everyone in the state.
But the Star Spangled Banner Protection Act? Because he’s mad at Mark Cuban? Mark doesn’t give a rats ass if the national anthem is played at Mavericks games or not. If it’s that important, he’ll play it. Interesting. though, he hadn’t been playing it all season and no one noticed until he mentioned it. This is just not important.
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Roses in the form of cross sit on the steps of the Statehouse during a Dec. 5 rally to remember those affected by abortion and to express opposition to Section 40 of the state budget, which would significantly expand abortion in Massachusetts. Pilot photo/Jacqueline Tetrault Rally organizer Catherine Jenkins (center) speaks at the Statehouse rally while her children hold up a photo of Laura Hope Smith, who died from a legal abortion in Cape Cod in 2007. To her right is event emcee Father Alan Wharton of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.
Pilot photo/Jacqueline Tetrault Participants brave the rain to attend the Dec. 5 rally in front of the Statehouse gate.
Pilot photo/Jacqueline Tetrault