Posts Categorized: Capitol Hall Report

Does Liberty Matter? Either liberty matters, or it doesn’t. You can’t have it both ways, no matter what actions Governor Abbott or any local elected official takes or allows to be taken. We have repeatedly heard the Governor say that local governments cannot enforce a requirement that individuals wear masks. Apparently though, local governments have… Read more

Post COVID Texas—Liberty Lost? The death of approximately 1,500 Texans due to COVID-19 in the first five months of 2020 is unfortunate and alarming until put in perspective by comparing it to the 7,500 Texans who died with the flu. Since COVID-19 was first identified in China in late 2019, there have been over 6,193,548 cases… Read more

Balanced Budgets; No New Taxes. Until the Texas government decided to declare 90 percent of Texas businesses “non-essential” and arbitrarily close them indefinitely, Redistricting loomed as the biggest challenge facing the upcoming 87th legislative session. However, with the double whammy of the Chinese COVID-19 shutdowns and the unprecedented drops in oil and gas futures, there… Read more

Case Study of Liberty Loss Through Government Overreach – Part 5 After the latest court hearing on the Pardo case, there is much to be thankful for.   As the Supreme Court’s order to return Drake to his family had previously signaled, the Kaufman family court finally dismissed with prejudice the fabricated CPS case against the… Read more

Texas Medical Board Now Triaging Patients. If you thought the ill-conceived directive from the Pharmacy Commission, which directed pharmacies to not fill prescriptions for existing drugs prescribed by medical doctors for patients the doctor wanted to treat for the Chinese Corona Virus was dreadful, wait until you hear what the Texas Medical Board (TMB) has… Read more

  Texas Medical Board Now Triaging Patients. If you thought the ill-conceived directive from the Pharmacy Commission, which directed pharmacies to not fill prescriptions for existing drugs prescribed by medical doctors for patients the doctor wanted to treat for the Chinese Corona Virus was dreadful, wait until you hear what the Texas Medical Board (TMB)… Read more

Second Amendment Self Defense Rights Progress While many pro-Second Amendment patriots still feel the sting of the failure of the constitutional carry legislation this past session, all was not lost in that several good 2nd Amendment protection bills were passed by the 86th Legislature and signed into law by the governor. Though limited to only 12 bills,… Read more

Second Amendment Self Defense Rights Progress While many pro-Second Amendment patriots still feel the sting of the failure of the constitutional carry legislation this past session, all was not lost in that several good 2nd Amendment protection bills were passed by the 86th Legislature and signed into law by the governor. Though limited to only 12 bills,… Read more

Friends, We will be holding a series of public town hall meetings throughout Senate District 2 to discuss the 86th Legislative Session and to answer your questions. The time and locations of the currently scheduled town halls are included below: Tuesday, August 13th: Bonham, Fannin County 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. Bonham City Hall, 514 Chestnut St, Bonham, TX… Read more

Case Study of Liberty Loss Through Government Overreach – Part 4 Texas Supreme delivers major smack-down to CPS for the illegal abduction of a 4-year-old child. The latest good news is that the Texas Supreme Court on October 24, 2019 reunited the Pardo family by ruling that DFPS had not shown a “substantial risk of a… Read more