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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer Alamo Managers Say They've Overcome Texas 'Bullying'
Source: Associated Press
Former Alamo Managers Say They've Overcome Texas 'Bullying'
By MICHAEL GRACZYK, ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON May 4, 2016, 8:03 PM ET
A group that served as guardian of the Alamo for more than a century said Wednesday it had prevailed over the "bureaucratic bullying" of a Texas agency with the state's acknowledgement that about 38,000 books and artifacts at an Alamo library don't belong to the state.
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas filed suit in March 2015 against the Texas General Land Office, alleging the agency headed by George P. Bush "unilaterally declared" the state owner of the organization's private library collection. That came after Bush announced he was ending the group's management of the downtown San Antonio mission-turned-fortress.
The suit argued the items were donated to the Daughters who began caring for the Alamo in 1905 and that the donors wanted the items maintained under the group's stewardship, not the state's.
"The Daughters are committed to standing up to bureaucratic bullying," Betty J. Edwards, president general of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, said Wednesday. "We may just be a nonprofit organization of women, but we are Texas women, and we are more than 7,000 members strong. We will stand up for what is ours."
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By MICHAEL GRACZYK, ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON May 4, 2016, 8:03 PM ET
A group that served as guardian of the Alamo for more than a century said Wednesday it had prevailed over the "bureaucratic bullying" of a Texas agency with the state's acknowledgement that about 38,000 books and artifacts at an Alamo library don't belong to the state.
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas filed suit in March 2015 against the Texas General Land Office, alleging the agency headed by George P. Bush "unilaterally declared" the state owner of the organization's private library collection. That came after Bush announced he was ending the group's management of the downtown San Antonio mission-turned-fortress.
The suit argued the items were donated to the Daughters who began caring for the Alamo in 1905 and that the donors wanted the items maintained under the group's stewardship, not the state's.
"The Daughters are committed to standing up to bureaucratic bullying," Betty J. Edwards, president general of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, said Wednesday. "We may just be a nonprofit organization of women, but we are Texas women, and we are more than 7,000 members strong. We will stand up for what is ours."
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Former Alamo Managers Say They've Overcome Texas 'Bullying' (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2016
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no_hypocrisy
(46,312 posts)1. Jeb's son, overreaching like Pappy and Poppy.
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braddy
(3,585 posts)3. I wonder what the real story behind all this is, does anyone know?
JHB
(37,166 posts)4. Let's hope things like this kill Pee Bush's political future