Dan Patrick makes "Star Spangled Banner Act" a legislative priority after the Mavericks go 13 games

[TexasTowelie]

Dan Patrick makes "Star Spangled Banner Act" a legislative priority after the Mavericks go 13 games without the national anthem

by 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 Cuban’s 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 Cuban’s 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/

[OnDoutside]

1. Interesting that Patrick wants to poke the bear. The very rich and

Politically active bear.

[Javaman]

7. asshole dan has never been known for his brains. nt

[Bleacher Creature]

2. The only thing Republicans have left is just a bunch of petty grievances.

[LeftInTX]

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]

3. I'm confused

Thought Texas wanted to break and become their own country. You don’t get to have it both ways.

[LeftInTX]

5. That's one guy, his bill won't go anywhere

[LeftInTX]

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]

8. Fuck Dan Patrick. Where he breathes. (nt)

[LudwigPastorius]

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]

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