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142nd Year • No. 117
Mount Pleasant, Texas
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SPORTS
LOCAL EVENTS
Community Calendar
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Bathroom
law battle
• Monse Allen
• Max Beck
• Earl Wayne Hatten
The Northeast Texas Community
College board voted Tuesday night
at its regular meeting in favor of an
order authorizing the issuance of
bond funds not to exceed $10.43
million.
This is the second sale of bonds
from the bond election voters
approved in 2015 for campus im-
provements, which are currently
underway, said Jodi Weber, NTCC
Director of Marketing and Public
Relations.
‘The total amount funded is
about $10.1 million and this part
will cover building repairs and up-
grades that should start early this
summer,” Weber said. ‘The first
sale was done last summer and that
amount was mostly used to cover
success coaches will be working
with NTCC’s student services staff
beginning this fall.
The board approved renaming the
Learning Resource Center (LRC)
on campus to the Charlie and Helen
Hampton Learning Resource Cen-
ter.
“We are very pleased to name
the LRC after our longtime friends
Charlie and Helen Hampton. This
is the first of what we hope will be
several naming opportunities over
the next year,” Dr. Jonathan Mc-
Cullough, NTCC Vice President for
Advancement, said.
In personnel action, the board ap-
proved hiring the following: Nicho-
las Jackson, Advisor/Recruiter; Me-
lissa Harrison, Advisor/Recruiter;
Ronald Luellen, Director of Shelby
Automotive Program; Naomi Tay-
lor, Director of College Store.
Mount Pleasant defeats
Marshall 8-7.
Local groups planning
plenty of fun events. Don’t
miss out!
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After discussing it with her hus-
band and her adoptive mother, she
agreed to meet her.
She shared with the audience
that she knew God was at work
when she read the signature at the
bottom of the pages of the letter.
A few years before it arrived,
she had written a song to her birth
mother, and not knowing her real
name, she chose one for her, titling
the song, “A Thank You Song for
Linda.”
“I had always wanted to be able
to say thank you,” she said. “So,
you cannot imagine how surprised I
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struggled with her identity as a
mother.
“I think she wondered whether
we felt like she was really our
mom,” she said.
For that reason, she said she de-
cided not to seek her birth mother
out, but in the weeks leading up to
her husband’s first general election,
she received a letter that shocked
her.
“I opened it and began reading.
Dear Angela Suzanne Paxton. I am
a birth mother looking for her old-
est child,” she said.
The letter gave her birthdate and
where she was born.
“I was a little stunned because
this was something I had not been
expecting,” she said.
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Angela Paxton never planned to
seek out her birth mother, but when
she received a letter from her, it led
to a series of meetings that dramat-
ically changed her life.
Paxton, the wife of Texas Attor-
ney General Ken Paxton, spoke
Wednesday at the Republican
Women of Northeast Texas Spring
Luncheon at the Mount Pleasant
Country Club.
“We could never have imagined
the path that God laid out for us,”
she said sharing first how she and
her husband met and his first po-
litical aspirations, never imagining
back then that she would today be
the wife of the attorney general of
Texas, and leading into her story
of adoption and her Christian faith,
which shapes her pro-life views.
“Every life really does matter.
When you look at a newborn baby,
who knows what God has in store
for that child?”
Ken Paxton attended the lun-
cheon and introduced his wife to
the audience.
Born in 1963 in New Braunfels,
Angela’s birth mother gave her up
for adoption and she was raised by
Wayne and Anita Allen, who could
not have children.
“I’m blessed to be an adoptive
child and to be here. I have been
very aware my whole life that that
might not have been the case. I was
born in a time when perhaps some-
one might not have chosen that,”
she said. “That’s a tough situation
to find yourself in, but this young
woman chose life for me.”
She said she grew up in a loving
home, but her adoptive mother
Angela Paxton shares adoption story
at Republican Women’s luncheon
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton introduced
his wife, Angela, at the Republican Women of
Northeast Texas Spring Luncheon Wednesday
at the Mount Pleasant Country Club. Paxton
shared his optimism for a victory in his lawsuit
against President Obama’s 2014 executive order
on immigration.
bonds in two
sales allowed
the college
to save on
interest. The
college’s financial advisor, Der-
ek Honea, said during the board
meeting that the college’s A bond
rating was reaffirmed, which led
to a favorable interest rate of 3.62
percent.
‘Timing on the sale of these
bonds was superb, saving taxpayers
more than $8 million from the cost
originally projected when voters
authorized the funds,” Honea said.
The board also voted to
refinance several million
in old bond debt at a lower
rate.
Dr. Brad Johnson, NTCC
President, reported to the
board that the campus
construction project is cur-
rently on time and on bud-
get. The last phase of the
underground utilities loop
is underway between the IT
and Business Technology buildings.
Work is scheduled to begin on the
original campus buildings in early
June.
The board voted to begin a new
partnership between NTCC and
the non-profit organization Col-
lege Lorward. The Austin-based
group focuses on helping at-risk
students by providing on-campus
success coaches. College Lorward
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The battle over who exactly can
use which bathroom may be coming
to Texas.
Activists, lawmakers and state
leaders are eyeing Texas as the
next front in what has become an
explosive national debate: the right
of transgender people — those who
identify with a gender that doesn’t
correspond with their sex at birth —
to decide which bathroom they use.
Undeterred by the ongoing fallout
from a controversial law in North
Carolina, Texas Republicans are
putting a new emphasis on the issue
with nine months until the next leg-
islative session.
“Texas will be the next battle-
ground,” said Jared Woodfill, a
conservative activist who is pushing
for the Legislature — and the state
GOP — to make clear its opposition
to letting men in women’s bath-
rooms. “In Texas, we need to draw
a line in the sand. We need to stand
with North Carolina.”
“These proposed gender-police
laws are a solution in search of a
problem, and actually it’s pander-
ing and it’s dangerous.”— Chuck
Smith, executive director of Equal-
ity Texas
Activists like Woodfill have found
an increasingly helpful ally in Lt.
Gov. Dan Patrick, who is calling
the issue a priority for the next
legislative session. In an interview
Wednesday, Patrick said it remains
to be seen what kind of legislation
the issue would require but it is
“very possible” a statewide bath-
room bill could be necessary.
“I think the handwriting is on the
bathroom wall: Men need to stay
out of the ladies’ room,” Patrick
said. ‘This isn’t about equal rights.
This isn’t about being against any-
one or anti-any person. This is about
common sense, common decency
and allowing women to have com-
fort when they’re in the bathroom.”
Such arguments draw deep skep-
ticism from LGBT advocates, who
say there is virtually no evidence to
suggest that Texas — or any other
state —has seen transgender people
attacking others in bathrooms. In-
stead, the advocates say, efforts like
those ramping up in Texas serve to
further stigmatize transgender peo-
ple and perpetuate violence against
them.
Activists and lawmakers are still
figuring out how to tackle the issue
in 2017, but some point to House
1748, an ill-fated bill from the last
session that would have created a
criminal penalty for anyone who
enters the bathroom designated for
the gender with which they were not
bom.
Others are taking cues from the
defeat last year of the Hous-
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the High Court justices.
“Some of the justices
made comments that were
very favorable of us,” he
said.
One of the arguments the
solicitor general made was
that the case did not have
standing.
“So, we argued that, yes,
we did because we had
damages resulting from
having to issue all these
licenses, which will cost
us millions of dollars,” he
said. “And, when Chief
Justice John Roberts was
speaking to the solicitor
general he said that losing
money is a classic case for
standing, which was exact-
ly what we were arguing.”
Paxton also pointed to
comments from Justice
Anthony Kennedy to the
solicitor general.
“I’m paraphrasing here,
but he said, normally
Congress passes law and
the president implements
law. In this case, it looks
like the president creat-
ed law and policy and
Congress is acquiescing.
That’s upside down,”
Paxton said.
He asked the audience
to keep the case in their
prayers.
one day he woke and said,
“I just changed the law.
That’s why we sued him.”
He said they have won
the case at the district court
level and the 5th U.S. Cir-
cuit level and “we’re pray-
ing for a victory at the U.S.
Supreme Court level.”
He told the Daily Tri-
bune after the luncheon
that he was encouraged by
the comments by some of
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Angela Paxton, the wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,
sings a tongue-in-cheek song she wrote, which includes the line,
“I’m a pistol-packin’ mama and my husband sues Obama” at the
Republican Women of Northeast Texas Spring Luncheon Wednesday
at the Mount Pleasant Country Club.
Eccentric millionaire
Robert Durst sentenced for
weapons charge.
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to follow the constitution,”
he said.
Paxton said President
Barack Obama said for six
years that he did not have
the authority to change the
immigration law; that it
was up to Congress.
“He said we still lived in
a democracy; that he was
not a king, he was not an
emperor. His words, not
mine,” Paxton said. “Then
AG shares optimism over immigration lawsuit
By LYNDA STRINGER
lstringer@tribnow.com
Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton was in Mount
Pleasant Wednesday at-
tending the Republican
Women of Northeast Texas
Spring Luncheon in which
his wife, Angela, was the
keynote speaker.
Paxton gave his wife’s
introduction, and also took
a few minutes to talk about
the case his office argued
before the U.S. Supreme
last week. Oral arguments
concluded April 18 “in
favor of maintaining an
injunction against President
Obama’s illegal immigra-
tion policy,” according to
the AG’s website.
Texas leads a coalition
representing 26 states
fighting to defend the Con-
stitution.
Paxton told the packed
banquet room at the Mount
Pleasant Country Club that
the case is an amazing one.
“It is one of the most
important cases maybe in
our nation’s history, not just
Texas history because it is
truly a case not just about
immigration, but it’s really
about the constitution and
whether the president has
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