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Related: About this forumDan Patrick makes "Star Spangled Banner Act" a legislative priority after the Mavericks go 13 games
Dan Patrick makes "Star Spangled Banner Act" a legislative priority after the Mavericks go 13 games without the national anthemby Sami Sparber, Texas Tribune
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that requiring the national anthem to be played "at all events which receive public funding" will be among his top legislative priorities this session.
The "Star Spangled Banner Protection Act," which has not yet been filed, comes as the Dallas Mavericks are under attack by some GOP Texas lawmakers seizing on a report that team owner Mark Cuban decided to stop playing the national anthem before home games this season. The team will resume playing the anthem before games, the NBA said Wednesday.
"It is hard to believe this could happen in Texas, but Mark Cubans actions of yesterday made it clear that we must specify that in Texas we play the national anthem before all major events," Patrick said in a statement. "In this time when so many things divide us, sports are one thing that bring us together right, left, Black, white and brown. This legislation already enjoys broad support. I am certain it will pass, and the Star Spangled Banner will not be threatened in the Lone Star State again."
Earlier on Wednesday, Patrick called Cubans decision a slap in the face to every American and an embarrassment to Texas.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/10/dallas-mavericks-texas-national-anthem/
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Dan Patrick makes "Star Spangled Banner Act" a legislative priority after the Mavericks go 13 games (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Feb 2021
OP
The only thing Republicans have left is just a bunch of petty grievances.
Bleacher Creature
Feb 2021
#2
Lame and stupid, but please focus on this than all the other crap you wanna shove down
LeftInTX
Feb 2021
#4
I bet all those people who died for our Constitutional freedoms would really...
LudwigPastorius
Feb 2021
#9
Lt Gov. Patrick it would seem their are more pressing issues like the electric grid
MagickMuffin
Feb 2021
#10
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)1. Interesting that Patrick wants to poke the bear. The very rich and
Politically active bear.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)7. asshole dan has never been known for his brains. nt
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)2. The only thing Republicans have left is just a bunch of petty grievances.
LeftInTX
(25,368 posts)6. And voter supression....
Big time...
They want to:
Make bond elections illegal
Send election judges to prison for mistakes
Send county clerks to prison if they do not remove dead voters
End Vote By Mail for nursing homes.
The list goes on and on
Sugarmaggie
(110 posts)3. I'm confused
Thought Texas wanted to break and become their own country. You dont get to have it both ways.
LeftInTX
(25,368 posts)5. That's one guy, his bill won't go anywhere
LeftInTX
(25,368 posts)4. Lame and stupid, but please focus on this than all the other crap you wanna shove down
our throats...
Please debate this all day, every day until May 31st. Bring in busloads of protestors etc etc
Paladin
(28,264 posts)8. Fuck Dan Patrick. Where he breathes. (nt)
LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)9. I bet all those people who died for our Constitutional freedoms would really...
love it that some shitty, punk-ass, crypto-fascist politicians want to make forced patriotism the law.
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)10. Lt Gov. Patrick it would seem their are more pressing issues like the electric grid
And yet here we are wanting to waste money on this nonsense.
I was without power for over 24hrs and this is Dan Patrick's main focus.
Dumb and tone deaf, AF