Steve Toth - Texas State Representative Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Join us is Texas State Representative Steve Toath. So he
threw the governor a bone, I guess with the school
choice and now he's back at his old old way
of doing things.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Steve, it's pathetic. So typically through the ninety eighth day,
the average session, we would have voted roughly two hundred
and fifty two hundred and sixty bills out of the
Texas House. We have voted out about fifty, so about
eighteen percent of the normal work that we typically do.

(00:29):
And folks will say, yeah, but Steve, you know what
the government that governs Lease governs best. Well, we all
agree with that if you're a conservative. But the reality
is that the crap that we're voting out of the
Texas House is garbage. We are passing very little conservative legislation.
The Democrats have run of the House and it's pathetic.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
In this particular bill would create the Texas Teacher Recruitment
Scholarship Program, which would offer up to forty thousand dollars
to individuals pursuing teaching certification. Nothing the bill requires those
recipients to be citizens of the United States, so we
could we could be giving you know, money to anybody
from anywhere? Who who, who will take their talents? I mean,

(01:11):
is there anything in that bill that would even tie them,
for example, to a requirement to teach in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, we had. We had multiple amendments on that bill,
one requiring citizenship, another requiring that you couldn't you couldn't
lead riots, you couldn't read lead riots. Not not protests,
but riots that destroyed personal property and brought violence onto
a onto a university campus. And all those bills were Armstar.

(01:41):
All those amendments were not your main to the to
the UH, to the bill. So Burrows Burroughs is just
walking as closely as he can with the Democrats right now,
basically doing everything that they ask of him.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I guess the other thing in that bill was an
amendment that would protect students teachers from vaccine mandates. They
wouldn't even sign off on that.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Nothing. Nothing. He is fighting. He is fighting us every
step of the way.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Okay, well, I guess they're better playing the game than
we are at this point. That's what I have to think. Representative,
what I know, there's not a lot of time left
in this session. What if anything, do you expect to
get out of the session before it's over and done with.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
So I did not run on the premise of passing
school choice. I'm for it. I think kids deserve a
chance if they're in a failed school. But that's not
what I ran on. I ran on lowering property taxes.
I ran on stopping the social transition of children in
our public schools. And none of those things are getting passed.

(02:48):
And so we're going to do if we have to.
We're going to cave the whole calendar and force a
special session. If that's what we have to do, that's
what we're going to do.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, So you expect there will be a special session.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I absolutely do.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Okay, all right, sir, keep us post. Appreciate it. Texas
State Representative you met. That's Texas State Representative Steep Toe