A new Texas law orders a school board president to quit his job. But in defiance, he says, 'no'

[TexasTowelie]

"You're like a bad penny."

The speaker is White Settlement ISD School Board President Randy Armstrong.

I'd been chasing him by phone for months, trying to learn his thoughts on a new state property tax law that affects him personally.

But he won't talk to me, so I went to this week's school board meeting -- and waited. Upon adjournment, I approached him at the raised dais where he sat in the president's seat.

That's when he greeted me with the "bad penny" appellation. I've been called a lot of names, but never that. (Later, I had to look up its meaning: A person or thing that is unwelcome.)

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