As Texas Goes... (20 page)

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In 2010, the board tossed: Traci Shurley, “Name Confusion Gets Kids’ Author Banned from Texas Curriculum,”
Fort Worth Star Telegram
,
January 25, 2010.

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The final product: “Texas Education Agency Proposed Revisions to 19 TAC Chapter 113, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies, Subchapter C, High School and 19 TAC Chapter 118, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise
System and Its Benefits, Subchapter A, High School,” 4–43.

115
When the discussions began: “What Does Dunbar Really Want to Teach?”
TFN Insider
,
Texas Freedom Network, March 21, 2010.

115
a terrorist sympathizer: “Education Official Stands by Her Obama Terror Claim,”
Houston Chronicle
,
November 3, 2008.

115
After McLeroy himself: Nathan Bernier, “State Board of Education Chair’s ‘Christian’ Remark Draws Fire,” KUT News, November 5, 2011.

116
In 2011, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute: Sheldon Stern and Jeremy Stern, “The State of State U.S. History Standards 2011,” Thomas B. Fordham Institute, February 16, 2011, 142.

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“Maybe the most striking”: Shorto, “How Christian Were the Founders?”

8: Speedy the Sperm and Friends

Interviews: Bob Deuell, Fran Hagerty, Susan Tortolero, Michael Villarreal.

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“Is Jesus their”: David Wiley and Kelly Wilson, “Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools,” Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, January 2009.

119
Carrie Williams: Reeve Hamilton, “Texas Forgoes Federal Funds for Comprehensive Sex Ed,”
Texas Tribune
,
October 4, 2010.

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a herculean effort: Wiley and Wilson, “Just Say Don’t Know.”

122
Slightly over half: “Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Examining Data from Texas and the US,” Christine Markham et al.,
Journal of Applied Research on Children
, October 18, 2011, 5.

122
By the time they’re seniors: Ibid.

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third-highest rate: Ibid., 1.

122
Sixty-three out of: Ibid.

122
That compares to: “Adolescent Fertility Rate (Births per 1,000 Women Aged 15–19), 2000–2008,” WHO World Health Statistics, 2011.

122
Back in 1992: S. K. Henshaw, “Teenage Abortion, Birth and Pregnancy Statistics by State, 1992,”
Family Planning Perspectives
, May–June 1997, 115–22.

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By 2008, when Texas’s: Susan Tortolero and Paula Cuccaro, “A Tale of Two States: What We Learn from California and Texas,”
Journal of Applied Research on Children
,
October 18, 2011, 1.

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“I’m in politics”: “Prolife No Exceptions—Bryan Hughes and Bill Zedler,” YouTube, uploaded February 10, 2011.

123
Governor Perry made an exception: Arlette Saenz, “After ‘Transformation’ Rick Perry Opposes Abortion in Cases of Rape and Incest,” ABC News, December 27, 2011.

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Texas has the second-highest: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/vitalstats.htm, accessed December 20, 2010.

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$1 billion a year: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, “Impact on Texas If Medicaid Is Eliminated: A Joint Report Required by House Bill 497.” Eighty-First Texas Legislature Regular Session, 2009. December 2010, available at:
http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/hb-497_122010
.pdf
.

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800,000 increase: “Enrollment in Texas Public Schools, 2010–11,” Division of Research and Analysis, Texas Education Agency. October 11, 2011, ix.

125
Since the Texas Freedom Network: Renee C. Lee, “Abstinence-Plus Emerging in More Texas Schools,”
Houston Chronicle
,
December 27, 2011.

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“Abstinence works”: Evan Smith interview with Rick Perry, video posted October 29, 2011,
http://www.texastribune
.org/texas-people/rick-perry/perry-abstinence/
.

9: Cooling to Global Warming

Interviews: Sherwood Boehlert, James Marston, Martin Melosi, Tom Smith, Daniel Weiss.

126
“In their eyes”:“Text of Gov. Rick Perry’s Remarks Regarding the EPA’s Takeover of Texas’ Air Permitting System,”
Anahuac Progress
, June 2, 2010.

127
Marshall Kuykendall: Audrey Duff, “Cowboys & Critters,”
Austin Chronicle
, January 28, 1996.

127
“Texans had spent”: Haley,
Passionate Nation
,
542.

128
“First, . . . I will work”: Jimmy Carter, Letter to Dolph Briscoe, October 19, 1976.

129
“a cocked gun”: “Texas Demos, Once Jubilant, Now Feel Betrayed by Carter,” New York Times News Service, printed in
El Paso Herald-Post
, October 20, 1977.

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“potential war profiteering”: “The Biggest Rip-Off,”
Time
,
October 24, 1977.

129
“If you can’t get Bob”: Robert Sherrill, “A Texan vs. Big Oil,”
New York Times
, October 12, 1980.

130
“Instead of unleashing”: Julie Connelly, “Energy: Oil for the Lamps of Reagan,”
Time
,
December 22, 1980.

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took down the solar panels: Arthur Allen, “Prodigal Sun,”
Mother Jones
, March/April 2000.

130
When H. W. ran: Byron W. Daynes and Glen Sussman,
White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
(College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2010), 157–58.

130
The first President Bush said: Ibid., 155, 157.

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Its goal: “Bush Signs Major Revision of Anti-Pollution Law,” Associated Press, printed in
New York Times
, November 16, 1990.

131
“The American way”: Jack Beatty, “A Forecast of the 2000 Election Predicts Squalls and Continued Global Warming,
The Atlantic
, April 14, 1999.

131
“This guy is so”: Ann Devroy, “Upbeat Bush Steps Up Rhetoric,”
Washington Post
, October 30, 1992.

132
“If homosexuality was”: Michael Crowley, “Barton Fink,”
New Republic
, May 22, 2006.

132
“I do not want”: Brian Montopoli, “Rep. Joe Barton Apologizes to BP’s Tony Hayward for White House,” CBS News, June 17, 2010.

132
A cement company paid: Alyssa Battistoni, “GOP Fights for Dirty Air,”
Salon
, October 14, 2011.

132
“You’ve got to understand”: Dubose and Reid,
The Hammer
,
96.

134
The 2000 Republican platform: Daynes and Sussman,
White House Politics
, 196.

134
Texas ranked first: John Mintz, “George W. Bush: The Texas Record; Evidence Contradicts Claims of Cleaner Air,”
Washington Post
,
October 15, 1999.

134
appointments: Ibid.

135
When the firm that had won: Ibid.

135
“Pat, we like wind”: Thomas L. Friedman, “Whichever Way the Wind Blows,”
New York Times
,
December 15, 2006.

136
Bush decided to resolve: Thomas M. DeFrank, “Bush Bares Environment Plan but Foes Say He’s Turned Texas Toxic,”
New York Daily News
, June 2, 2000.

136
Under a law: Jim Yardley, “Bush Approach to Pollution: Preference for Self-Policing,”
New York Times
, November 9, 1999.

136
“We have our limits”: Mintz, “George W. Bush: The Texas Record.”

136
Marquez was a former lobbyist: “Toxic Exposure: How Texas Chemical Council Members Pollute State Politics and the Environment,” Texans for Public Justice, 1999.

136
He championed a Clear Skies: Daynes and Sussman,
White House Politics
, 195.

137
The environment in general: Ibid.

137
“Not since the rise”: Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff, “Big Energy at the Table,”
Newsweek
, May 13, 2001.

137
“Conservation may be”: Richard Benedetto, “Cheney’s Energy Plan Focuses on Production,”
USA Today
,
May 1, 2001.

137
Ken Lay, who: John Nichols, “Ken Lay—Guilty, George Bush—Guilty,”
Nation
,
May 25, 2006.

138
In 2003, the General Accounting Office: “Energy Task Force: Process Used to Develop the National Energy Policy,” United States General Accounting Office Report to Congressional Requesters, August 2003.

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spending seven times as much: Lindsay Renick Mayer, “Big Oil, Big Influence,” PBS, October 1, 2008, available at
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/347/oil-politics.html
.

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“We’ll have a strong”: “Bush Won’t Ask Americans to Conserve,” ABC News, May 8, 2001.

138
“That’s a big no”: Ibid.

138
“It is a darn”: Carl Hulse and Michael Janofsky, “Congress, After Years of Effort, Is Set to Pass Broad Energy Bill,”
New York Times
, July, 27, 2005.

138
A report by the Congressional: David Kocieniewski, “As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies,”
New York Times
, July 3, 2010.

139
“It’s the arrogance”: Dubose and Reid,
The Hammer
, 111.

139
“It is quite pretentious”: Paul Ford, “Weekly Review,”
Harper’s Magazine
, August 4, 2009.

139
humiliating for Whitman: Ron Suskind,
The Price of Loyalty
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 127.

140
“When I made”: Tim Dickinson, “The Secret Campaign of President Bush’s Administration to Deny Global Warming,”
Rolling Stone
, June 20, 2007.

140
when the EPA issued: Katharine Q. Seelye, “President Distances Himself from Global Warming Report,”
New York Times
, June 5, 2002.

140
when Bush held a press conference: Gail Collins, “The Fat Bush Theory,”
New York Times
,
October 19, 2008.

141
The Democratic minority: “The Most Anti-Environment House in the History of Commerce,” Committee on Energy and Commerce Democrats, December 15, 2011.

142
Texan Ralph Hall: Coral Davenport, “Heads in the Sand,”
National Journal
,
December 4, 2011.

143
“destroying federalism”: Rick Perry,
Fed Up
(New York: Little, Brown, 2010), 88.

143
Perry didn’t put any stock: W. Gardner Selby and Asher Price, “Perry’s Strong Views on Climate Change Can Be Muted at Home,”
Austin American Statesman
, October 21, 2007.

143
“one contrived phony mess”: Perry,
Fed Up
, 92.

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Announcing the action: Asher Price, “Texas Sues to Stop EPA from Regulating Greenhouse Gases,”
Austin American-Statesman
,
February 16, 2010.

143
In response, climate scientists: “On Global Warming, the Science Is Solid,”
Houston Chronicle
,
March 7, 2010.

143
“I was just amazed”: “Interview: Larry Soward,”
Texas Climate News
, April 29, 2010.

144
“I like to tell people”: Suzanne Goldenberg, “Rick Perry Officials Spark Revolt After Doctoring Environment Report,”
Guardian
, October 14, 2011.

10: The Texas Miracle, Part II

Interviews: Don Baylor, Michael Brandl, Sara Collins, Leslie Helmcamp, Christopher King, Rick Levy, Richard Pena, Bill Ratliff, Mark Strama, Alex Winslow, Mine Y��cel.

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“For the last few weeks”: Rick Wartzman, “Texas, the Jobs Engine,”
Los Angeles Times
,
July 3, 2011.

147
“Since June 2009”:
Glenn Beck
, Fox News, June 14, 2011, available at:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/06/14/rick-perry-makes-surprise-cameo-as-glenn-counts-down-to-june-30th/
.

147
“Approximately 70 percent”: “Gov. Perry: Texas Workforce and Economic Development are Key to Prosperity,” press release, Office of Governor Rick Perry, January 15, 2009.

148
“In fact, if you throw out”: “Recession Pounds Perry’s Jobs Fund,” Texans for Public Justice, January 27, 2010.

148
“There is still”: The Perry quote was first reported by the
Texas Tribune.
You can hear the audio at DallasVoice.com.

148
“As the state of California”: “Texas Governor Woos Vernon Businesses,”
Los Angeles Times
,
May 9, 2011.

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when a trade association paid: “Making Connection: State Officials and Their Special-Interest Travel Agents,” Texans for Public Justice, April 2007.

149
Forbes
: Joel Kotkin, “The Next Big Boom Towns in the U.S.,”
Forbes
,
July 6, 2011.

149
CNBC chose Texas: “America’s Top States for Business,” CNBC, July 13, 2010.

149
Site Selection
: Mark Arend, “Texas Soars,”
Site Selection
,
March 2011.

149
Chief Executive
magazine: “Best/Worst States for Business,”
Chief Executive
,
May
3, 2011.

149
Andrew Puzder: Allison Wollam, “Will Carl’s Jr. Really Move to Texas,”
Houston Business Journal
,
February 3, 2011.

150
However, Logue told: George Skelton, “Gavin Newsom Treks to Texas to Talk Jobs,”
Los Angeles Times
,
April 21, 2011.

150
The gang was trotted: “Missing Context: When Political Worlds Collide,” chron.com (
Houston Chronicle
online edition), April 15, 2011.

150
“As well as Texas”: Arend, “Texas Soars.”

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a Russian submarine invade Houston: McNeely and Henderson,
Bob Bullock
,
217.