Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: It is another Blacklisting of Americans update from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/Find other Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra blacklisting updates here: https://prattontexas.com/?s=blacklistWe also discuss Zimmerman’s latest book: Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space.This book is a must-read for those who want to understand how wrong the Left is about America’s slavery history as well as how a small part of what became the USA took very wrong decisions which are still at the center of our most difficult societal problems. This book is original, not another rewrite of what others have published. It is also real History written from primary sources.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The foul stench of local government rises even higher during tax rate and budget setting.Taxpayers are being abused in so many ways from wasteful spending to promotion of Leftist “woke” ideologies to the easy incompetence that comes when one is spending other people’s money as opposed to one’s own. Here’s just a sampling from today’s press review:Lufkin ISD superintendent granted paid admin leave for school yearPrice tag on Wichita Falls City Hall remodel job jumps by $5 million (almost 50%!)Fannin Co. Courthouse faces serious fire code violations (they just spent $29 million and ran the job themselves – the Commissioners’ Court!)Don’t Let Cities, Counties Chip Away at Legislative Tax ReliefThe Left’s War on Language Strikes the Lone Star State – look at these graphs and how this has grown. Taxpayer money to implement Leftist political programs in our local governments.City of Dallas Agency Demands ‘Equity Elements’ in 95% of ProjectsOur Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Anti-Wimp update: They hit owner on head, he & employee shot & killed 2 of them.Democrat district court judge rules against key Texas election law (SB 1750) and state immediately appeals to Supreme Court. The judge said the implementation of the law could cause harm to Harris County’s elections office. What!? The rather recently created office has had one director after another vacate the position due to incompetently run elections. That’s sort of the point of passing SB 1750.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: It is all about leadership and responsibility in restraining the growth of local government. All too often officials say they must have more money, must grow local government more than inflation and population growth, but guess what? There are always a few across the state who prove that with better management, leadership, and a remembrance that they work for the taxpayers not for government employees one can indeed fully fund local government without raising property taxes.No city tax increase expected for El Paso for FY 2024, but adding fire and policeHats Off to Tarrant County on its ’24 Budget – an actual tax cut and a new county property tax homestead exemption!Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Anti-Wimp update: Don’t attack armed people in the BBQ joint restroom.After seeing, and hearing, the video, I’m even MORE with Rep. Ronny Jackson. Too many police at this moment a girl was in medical distress were infected with I’m-in-charge-here syndrome than with let’s help the girl first. Most media leaves out witnesses involved who said:Two people who reportedly witnessed the July interaction, Chris and Jodi Jordan, said they were at the rodeo and explained Jackson was trying to help the girl before medics arrived and that the deputies aggressively pulled him away. “We were just appalled,” said Chris Jordan, 48, of Hereford. “The slamming to the ground I didn’t understand whatsoever.”A big Texas victory over the Leftist ESG movement.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Pornographers (Houston Chronicle calls them “adult entertainment” advocates) sue Texas to fight against HB 1181 which requires age verification to enter the online pornography websites. Additionally, in an absurd assertion, the pornographers claim that pornography is not addictive and want the provisions of the bill that require a warning of such to be ruled unconstitutional. I guess we know where the plaintiffs in this case stand: They appear to want children and youth to have access to their pornography. Could that be because they know it is addictive and getting them early is better for business? That was the claim against the cigarette makers.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Child dies on an illegal alien voluntary transport bus provided by Texas, State Senator Roland Gutierrez again shows his mental deficiency: “This child died because in all likelihood they were on a bus that they could not get out of.” Really? Getting off a bus (she did get off when EMS were called) stops progression of disease? Gutierrez is a joke. Lawsuit against Rep. Jeff Leach by Texas Nationalist Movement and group member Morgan McComb dismissed. The filing of the case is one of the reasons I have little respect for this TEXIT movement by TNM and why I keep my distance. Gosh, this case shows them as bad as the worst D.C. Democrat on political liberty and free speech.Lubbock County commissioners need to learn that people don’t need more government per capita but less through economies of scale. County spending has skyrocketed for years so if the D.A.’s office needs more money: First, make sure it is being effectively run before handing it more money (I’ve been told by judges and attorneys it is very poorly managed by the incumbent D.A.) and second, take money that has put into growing the county government beyond basic functions and move it to the D.A. Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates, or hear the podcast of the show after 6pm Central here.

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Houston,, other cities, have sued the state over Rep. Burrows’ Regulatory Consistency Act. They stupidly call it the “Death Star Bill” but it doesn’t kill anything other than city ordinances that attempt to regulate things that the state regulates.The state has now put forth arguments, in an effort for dismissal of the case, and the interesting thing is how the bill was constructed using the novel enforcement method put forth in the model Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.No Joke: Oregon SecState BARS Republicans From Running For Re-Election. The lesson, with this story and a huge number of others, is that Texas Republican House Speakers Straus, Bonnen, Phelan are simply stupid idiots when they and their backer cabals argue that we must hand power to Democrats and not punish them for leaving the state on the idea that if the tables were turned such across-the-aisle kindness would be given in the other direction.  Oil and gas rig count falls again. Gasoline prices are up, demand is up, but drilling continues to go down.Leftist media awakens to the effective nature of Texas’ bussing illegal aliens to big Democrat run cities.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Junk fees and false room rates by hotels is a symptom of an absence of integrity in the industry and the moral decline of our society. The feds, the Texas Attorney General, and customers are fighting it but the hotels don’t care and actually seem to think lying to customers is a game.Hotels are returning fire in the “junk fee” war. Don’t be a casualty.Office of the Attorney General Sues Travel Reservation Site for Deceptive Trade Practices Regarding the True Price of Hotel Rooms (Booking.com, Priceline.com, and Kayak.com)Paxton Secures Agreement with Marriott to End Hidden Hotel Fees and Ensure TransparencyPaxton Sues Hyatt Hotels for Deceptive Trade Practices Regarding the True Price of Hotel RoomsI’ve had Platinum status for many years with Wyndham and their La Quinta operator in Brownwood charged us, without advance disclosure, a junk fee we’d have not known about had we not demanded a receipt upon leaving. Terrible lack of integrity.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Is the “political calculus” of finally banning taxpayer funded lobbying in Texas really changing? My guess is that such might, I stress might, be offered up, and likely watered down, next session as a chosen red meat issue.Now, because of the Texas House’s impeachment circus we don’t know if this is law enforcement working as it should (which is why impeachment should not have been used – to let law enforcement handle law enforcement) or, a pile-on action to help poison the well just like how magically the securities related suit finally gets a direct court hearing with Paxton present after all these years.Border Patrol Union rips Rep. Joaquin Castro‘s criticism of Texas Rio Grande water buoys: ‘unhinged diatribe’.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Reportedly, there is Houston-region housing development that caters to illegal aliens with a population of over 22,000 that is “partially funded” by a major donor of Governor Greg Abbott. Is it all this profiting off of illegal immigration that keeps Abbott and legislative leadership from doing more than expensive theater on securing the border such as passing a mandate for Texas employers to use e-Verify as Florida has done under DeSantis?The Rio Grande Guardian is upset that only three of the Valley’s state reps. signed a very stupid MALC letter to Speaker Phelan asking for Gov. Abbott and Operation Lone Star to be investigate. The headline: Only 3 of Valley’s 8 state Reps sign MALC letter criticizing Abbott’s use of concertina razor wire on Rio Grande – Rio Grande Guardian. It is stupid to sign such a letter given that Biden and the feds use concertina wire all the time on the border!Also this from the border: EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Increases Migrant Releases as Border Policies Crumble Under Another Surge.Biden’s war on Texas border buoys reveals what he really thinks about immigration laws.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995. Anti-Wimp update: Woman fights off forced head shaving with her handgun.Local sales taxes up 2.8% over August 2022. Find your city here.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat Leftists and their homosexual and “trans” activists demonstrated in Denton how they are the enemies of civil public discourse and tolerance. No surprise it happened at Texas Woman’s University that, like neighbor UNT, a hotbed for radical leftist action.Abbott’s ceremonial bill signing of SB15, “Save Women’s Sports Act,” showed just how strongly the homosexual lobby opposes protections for women. It also shows, once again, how Abbott has done little to nothing to use his political power to appoint university regents to rein in the Leftist chaos on our public campuses. TWU police just citing people, or one person, for Class C assault (a ticket) when spitting upon people and blocking exits can carry higher charges just shows where TWU stands on the matter.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.A needed slap down of Dallas-based Southwest Airlines (not the firm it once was) in court over its denigration of religious freedom. And someone did a great job of pointing out the “woke” culture at Fort Worth-based American Airlines. Two previous stories on the Southwest Airlines saga:Pushback: Judge rules flight attendant must be rehired by Southwest, but reduces her award significantlyPushback: Southwest flight attendant demands Southwest be sanctioned for violating the terms of her court victoryTexas largest county, Harris, has another new mess since the incompetent to govern Leftist Democrats took over the county:22 Harris County Jail victims’ families sue countyHarris County’s judge and sheriff no-shows meeting with state jail regulatorsChief of Texas’ Largest County, Lina Hidalgo, Takes Medical Leave for DepressionHawk and snake story and story on why a phone call to 911 is not a weapon.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Are Aggie jokes true?! If regents are finding it hard to blunt a perception of a Left-liberal agenda at Texas A&M then maybe the jokes are true because, frankly, it’s quite easy to deal with such without getting into the arena of academic freedom, etc. Just stop funding programs that promote Leftist political orthodoxy and campus and you’ll go a long way to solving the problem at A&M, Texas Tech, Texas State, UNT, Houston and so many others. You don’t have to fund conservative-Right programs either – just stop funding and promoting Leftist orthodoxy on campus!Also on the subject of A&M’s absurd “settlement” with the UT professor it didn’t hire, state Rep. Brian Harrison has it right: “Like hell my constituents should have to pay a DEI activist professor one million dollars for simply not leaving one government job for another government job. She’s still tenured at UT Austin and is getting a $1M bonus? I will demand answers from Texas A&M University, my alma mater.”Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995. Another all to common example of local media misleading voters on what local government is doing to property taxes out of Lamesa. The local paper says the council “adopts lower tax rate.” The rate doesn’t lower or raise, it gets set anew each year with a different set of base numbers. The truthful and meaningful message would be “Council adopts 2.75 % property tax increase” – that’s a lot different than “adopts lower tax rate.”More impeachment debacle news. I discuss several issues and specifically mentioned the section about Paxton and Mindy Montford from this DMN story. Also, deadline for more charges has passed so it appears the ongoing House fishing didn’t land a fish.Democrat liberal Travis County state district judge has substituted herself for a legislature and tried to rewrite Texas’ law restricting abortion and she used woke language too! Her blocking of parts of the law has itself been blocked by the state’s direct appeal to the Supreme Court.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott, not taxpayers, should pay preposterous A&M “settlement” of $1 million for a job the woman walked away from and had no loss because she retained her tenured job at UT-Austin! Abbott appointed all the A&M regents and he should make good the million out of his huge campaign account because it is beyond unethical that taxpayers are put on the hook for this. See also: Texas A&M reaches $1M settlement with Kathleen McElroy – note how the utter dishonestly of the press on this continues.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.TPPF points out City of Lubbock’s own audited data shows a massive increase in spending over the past decade which far, far outpaces inflation and population growth.Oil price high but Texas suffers another big falloff in oil and gas drilling rigs.Ballot order set for the 7 November 2023 Constitutional Amendment election.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com