Mark Wiggins
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Your friendly neighborhood lobbyist | #txlege Government Relations Pro | Former broadcaster 📺🎙🎸 Actual Texan® 🤠🇺🇸
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Dawn over the dome
Important business done here
Thursdays there’s yogurt
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Standing ovation from the House for this champion for our 5.4 million students. Thank you
@RaneyForTexas
!!!
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The People’s House has spoken.
Texas stands united against vouchers.
No tricks. No hostages. No bribes.
And no amount of special sessions gonna change that.
#txlege
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By 84-63, House adopts Raney’s amendment striking
#ESAs
from big school choice/teacher pay bill. Now discussing a
@FourPriceTX
motion that would prevent reconsideration. txlege
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#SchoolChoice
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Nothing like folding up your umbrella in the middle of a rainstorm because you're not getting wet
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How surreal it must be to be talking with the Duchess of Sussex and have her be the one interviewing you! Great discussion and fantastic job to you both
@eramshaw
&
#MeghanMarkle
.
#19thRepresents
@19thnews
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Sometimes it’s easy to forget why we’re here.
@DrewDarbyTX
gets it. Thank you for your heartfelt and rock solid defense of our great public schools!
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Rep.
@DrewDarbyTX
is one of those rural Republicans who have so-far blocked
@GovAbbott
's push for private education subsidies. He tells us this is an "Alamo" moment. He's not retreating.
"If I'm here in November, December, January, February, March... nothing changes."
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READ 🔎
655 pages of electronic comments from Texans who were banned from public testimony against the SB 8 voucher bill.
No surprise it's almost entirely OPPOSED🚫 to SB 8.
Link:
#txed
#txlege
#hate8
#vOUCHersHurt
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Thank you to each of these heroes for standing up for our 5.4 public school children!!! 👏👏👏
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Nbd just NFL &
@TexasFootball
Star and
@pfisd
graduate Alex Okafor testifying against vouchers and in support of Texas public schools.
#txlege
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“Is there a middle ground” on vouchers?
@TexasTribune
that’s a perfect example of the harmful “both sides” journalistic trope. Sometimes one side is just plain wrong. Vouchers are just plain wrong.
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#ttevents
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"If the school goes down, the town goes with."
Y'all marinate on that.
Then join me tomorrow to say naw to vouchers.
#txlege
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Here’s my dispatch from West Texas for
@NBCNews
on the rural resistance to the GOP’s signature policy goal this legislative session: Giving parents state money to pay for private school tuition and homeschooling.
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There is not, and will never be, a deal on vouchers.
Educators will not mortgage the future of 5.4 million students for any price.
Nothing to see here.
#NoVouchers
🚫
#txlege
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Couple hundred in line for
@RealBenCarson
book signing at CostCo in Austin.
http://t.co/xWkqUwNbO6
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Going over the
@19thnews
#19thRepresents
lineup for this week and 👀👀👀👀👀👀‼️‼️‼️
That's how you launch a newsroom!!! Well done
@eramshaw
!
#txlege
And for our The
#19thRepresents
closing conversation — Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, interviews
@eramshaw
about our mission to create a transformative newsroom centered on gender equity.
Register:
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New today: Back in DC,
@JohnCornyn
(w/
@tedcruz
&
@ThomTillis
) introducing "Back the Blue Act" in Senate
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Vouchers would defund our schools and raise our property taxes. Don't buy the dark money talking points.
Thank you
@themonicamadden
@KXAN_News
@NXSTMediaGroup
for reporting on this important issue.
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Several members pointing out the need for TEA to inform parents that TEA changes, not school performance, are the reason A-F ratings are expected to plummet this fall (just in time for a special session on vouchers).
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Proud to testify in support of public education on behalf of our outstanding
@OfficialATPE
educators. Just say NO 🚫 to vouchers!
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Said Bernal: If every professional who comes in here is telling us the same thing — namely that schools are underfunded — why don’t we who are not professionals listen to them? 🤔
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Everyone in
#txed
should read.
Thank you
@KingForTexas
for fighting for educator raises and standing strong for public education with no ifs, ands, or buts! We know this fight isn’t over and we appreciate your work!
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HB 100 was my signature piece of legislation for the 88th Regular Legislative Session. I'm very sad to say that it ultimately did not pass! Below is my statement.
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Dear Texas Capitol:
Please upgrade the WiFi capacity in hearing rooms.
Many thanks,
Everyone
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Get out of the way. Stop micromanaging teachers, stop politicizing their jobs, and treat them like the professionals they are.
Thank you
@maggie_glynn1
@kxan
for having me on to talk about improving teacher retention! 📺
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.
@DanHuberty
bottom lines it: We've established today that
#voucher
bill is a tax break that realistically won't help poor families.
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Senate Education Committee votes on party lines, 9-3, to advance HB 100 to full Senate with poison voucher.
Thank you
@lamantia4texas
@Menendez4Texas
@SenRoyceWest
for once again standing with the 5.4 million students in our public schools and opposing vouchers!
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Happy birthday
@SpeakerStraus
! 🎂 Thank you for standing strong for Texas schools! 👩🏫👨🎓🍎💪
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THANK YOU
@Bailesfortx
for standing up for doing the right thing and following a process meant to ensure public transparency and participation. We greatly appreciate you! 👏👏👏
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Chair
@BradBuckleyDVM
attempting to push through a voucher today.
Pub Ed Cmte to vote on 80-page sub to SB 8 with no public hearing and less than 24 hours' notice for members and public to read the bill.
Looking forward to seeing who stands with public schools.
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You know what happens when thousands of educators all over Texas speak up, speak out, and vote for pro-public education candidates?
You become the primary focus on inauguration day.
KEEP IT UP! 🍎💪🗳
#txlege
#txinauguration
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When government waits until the dead of night to do its business, it's not the people's business that's getting done my friends.
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The millionaires and billionaires behind the voucher push are spending gobsmacking amounts of money to purchase elections at both the state and local level. Great article by
@HoustonPubMedia
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Texans for Educational Freedom, a conservative political action committee, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to several local school board candidates on the ballot May 6.
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It's a big week in the push for private school vouchers in Texas. Tomorrow the Texas Public Policy Foundation is busing in supporters to rally with the governor in Austin. On Wednesday, the Senate education committee is holding a public hearing on the GOP's primary voucher plan.
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There's no such thing as a "small" voucher. Just ask Arizona, where a "limited" voucher is now wreaking havoc on the state budget and robbing students of needed resources. Thanks
@PhilPrazan
@NBCDFW
for covering this important issue! 📺
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Thank you
@TrentAshbyTX
for supporting our public schools. Our schools are the backbone of our community and we are grateful for you standing up for all 5.4 million Texas students!
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Back on Twitter since adding “Dad” to my resume. Tune in for the usual
#txlege
programming, then stick around for the jokes. DM your tips on removing poo stains
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.
@DanHuberty
fired up, frustrated w/ those who claim to support schools & teachers w/o offering real solutions. Amen!
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THANK YOU Texas House for voting to preserve class sizes! Teachers appreciate your support, esp during
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
!!!
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Wow! Just happened to sit next to legendary
@WBCBoxing
Champion Erik “El Terrible” Morales, whom the Texas Senate honored today. Ready to knock out some bills now! 💪🥊🥊🥊🥊🏆
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Why are voucher promoters continuing to try and link vouchers to school funding and teacher pay?
Because this is what it looked like when they *paid* people to show up in support of vouchers during the regular session.
It ain't gonna work.
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Excellent job by Dr.
@and_chevalier
@txcase
pointing out the important protections in law for students with disabilities that vouchers would deny.
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Lots of threats of special sessions right now, but not over:
❓ School safety
❓
#SpEd
funding
❓ Teacher raises
🤔
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Thanks again
@TomAbrahams13
@abc13houston
for covering this story! 📺
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Great
@txstatepta
testimony: Parents don't want cheap gift card to an expensive private school. They want THEIR school to be great.
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I urge you to reconsider.
This is defunding STAFF.
This is defunding the hundreds of people who have been working 24/7 for both R & D offices this session.
When
#txlege
goes home, they don't. This is their livelihood.
Please do not take that away.
I will veto Article 10 of the budget passed by the legislature.
Article 10 funds the legislative branch.
No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities.
Stay tuned.
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Outstanding clinic put on by
@jamestalarico
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If you want lower property taxes, fund and reform public education. House did that, Senate killed it. Anything else is a scam.
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Gamer pals: I'm looking for someone local to explain Gamergate today. DM or e-mail me mwiggins
@kvue
.com.
Thanks!
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The funding in SB 9 is a one-time $2k stipend. It’s insulting and will do nothing to improve teacher recruitment and retention.
The Texas Senate should say NO ✌️ to anything less than a permanent across-the-board $10k raise.
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Thank you
@DanHuberty
and
@SpeakerStraus
for passing
#HB21
, funding schools and getting us closer to REAL property tax relief!
#txlege
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Thank you
@KingForTexas
for supporting our public schools. Our schools are the backbone of our community and we are grateful for you standing up for all 5.4 million Texas students!
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Friend: Haven’t seen you in awhile
Me: Sorry it’s five days till sine die
#txlege
Friend: You look like you’re actively dying
Me:
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