The Brief: Top Texas News for March 4, 2013
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The latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll contains some good news for both Gov. Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott.
In a hypothetical 2014 gubernatorial primary matchup between the two Republicans, Perry leads Abbott 49 percent to 17 percent.
The numbers bode well for Perry, whom Public Policy Polling last month showed ahead of Abbott by just 3 points.
"You can rule out the idea that Perry is just dead," said Daron Shaw, co-director of the UT/TT Poll and a government professor at the University of Texas at Austin. "You can’t reach that ...
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Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
After reading Dan Patrick's statement of his
REFUSAL TO RESTORE 5.5 BILLION TO EDUCATION,
he will receive a call (I hope thousands) to remind him Texas spends at least
$19.1 BILLION per year on "Incentive Programs" otherwise known as CORPORATE WELFARE
according to the latest data.
The Texas Legislature is REQUIRED to fund PUBLIC Education under the Texas Constitution, Article 7:
Sec. 1. SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.
Sec. 2. PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND. All funds, lands and other property heretofore set apart and appropriated for the support of public schools; all the alternate sections of land reserved by the State out of grants heretofore made or that may hereafter be made to railroads or other corporations of any nature whatsoever; one half of the public domain of the State; and all sums of money that may come to the State from the sale of any portion of the same, shall constitute a permanent school fund.