Texas: Lt Gov: Texas will forego federal funds over LGBT policy

[Free Vulcan]

DALLAS (AP) - Texas' lieutenant governor said Friday that the state is prepared to forfeit billions of federal dollars in public school funding in defiance of an Obama administration directive requiring schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

The new directive is expected to worsen tensions between Republican-led statehouses and the federal government over divisive social issues. It clarifies expectations for districts receiving federal school funds, which Texas' powerful Republican lieutenant governor argues the state's 5.2 million public school students can now do without.

"We will not be blackmailed by the president's 30 pieces of silver," Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said. "The people of Texas and the Legislature will find a way...

Read more: http://www.cbs8.com/story/31967380/lt-gov-texas-will-forego-federal-funds-over-lgbt-policy

[sinkspur]

And when a court decides in favor of Obama's directive (the 4th Court of Federal Appeals has already ruled that a student can sue a school over use of a restroom:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/federal-appeals-court-sides-with-trangender-teen-says-bathroom-case-can-go-forward/2016/04/19/6a873b88-f76b-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html), Patrick will have no choice.

If this clown insists that the State Legislature raise taxes over this issue,  he will find his butt out on the street.  The state is not magically going to "find" $10 billion out of thin air.