Charlie Garza: This is Why Voting & District Drawing Matters
I like Charlie Garza as a person. As an elected official, I think he's dangerous. All you have to do to know what makes him tick was to show up at is coronation as a member of the state board of education. Normally people just raise their hand, take the oath and thank supporters.
Garza probably would've had an 18 gun salute (21 is reserved for presidents) and been knighted had he had the option.
But now is an issue before the state board of education that will really tell us what he is all about. Creationism is again making headlines in Texas and Perry's newest head of the state board of education is a creationist. I'm interested, and watching to see what Charlie Garza does in this case. He's a right-wing idealougue and really doesn't make a secret of it.
But he is at his heart, an educator. The question is, will he vote to put creationism on an even par with science along with the rest of his Republican buddies, or will he buck the trend?
I suspect the former, but I've been wrong before.
Garza's district is only partially made up of El Paso. The rest of his district is very red. Garza won the red and lost El Paso. Now El Paso's voice at the state board of education isn't reflective of a majority of the population.
Still think your vote doesn't matter? Still think drawing lines in redistricting doesn't matter?
One more thing: Republicans have been calling the shots for a long time. Yet we have a lower graduation rate and higher teen pregnancies under their watch. Ironically, the teachers get blamed for everything. Way to go GOP.
Garza probably would've had an 18 gun salute (21 is reserved for presidents) and been knighted had he had the option.
But now is an issue before the state board of education that will really tell us what he is all about. Creationism is again making headlines in Texas and Perry's newest head of the state board of education is a creationist. I'm interested, and watching to see what Charlie Garza does in this case. He's a right-wing idealougue and really doesn't make a secret of it.
But he is at his heart, an educator. The question is, will he vote to put creationism on an even par with science along with the rest of his Republican buddies, or will he buck the trend?
I suspect the former, but I've been wrong before.
Garza's district is only partially made up of El Paso. The rest of his district is very red. Garza won the red and lost El Paso. Now El Paso's voice at the state board of education isn't reflective of a majority of the population.
Still think your vote doesn't matter? Still think drawing lines in redistricting doesn't matter?
One more thing: Republicans have been calling the shots for a long time. Yet we have a lower graduation rate and higher teen pregnancies under their watch. Ironically, the teachers get blamed for everything. Way to go GOP.
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