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    http://kxan.com/2018/02/17/future-of-the-alamo-front-and-center-in-land-commissioner-race/

    Incumbent Land Commissioner George P. Bush is fighting off a blast from the past. His predecessor, Jerry Patterson, wants his job back in part because of a needed but controversial revamp of the historical site. Specifically, whether to move the cenotaph – the gravestone of the Alamo defenders.
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    The proposal from the Land Office and the City of San Antonio calls for buying up surrounding properties, building a new Alamo museum, restoring the mission and long-barracks, shutting down the public streets to preserve the original battleground, all in order to “re-imagine the Alamo.”

    “We don’t need to re-imagine the Alamo. We need to remember, revere and respect the Alamo,” said Jerry Patterson.

    One of Patterson’s beefs with the plan is whether to move a key monument.

    The granite cenotaph stands as the gravestone for the Texans that died there in 1836. Under the plan, it could be moved to the entrance for the reclaimed battlefield or to a location blocks away where Mexican soldiers burned the bodies.

    “The casual average visitor who comes here and whether it’s time or just lack of knowledge, they aren’t going to see it. That’s why it needs to stay,” said Patterson.

    I hope Patterson is successful in ousting Bush. Patterson is partly responsible for concealed carry in Texas.
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    F350-6

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    I'm all for folks who helped concealed carry, but I'm also kinda against career politicians. Patterson is over 70 years old and has a few decades of running for office under his belt.

    George P isn't anti-gun from what I can tell talking to him (before he ran for office), and hasn't been in office yet to more to that career politician status that means they owe too many favors.

    Term limits is what we need, not to recirculate old names. And that's not a new thought. My dad, long since retired, told me about an old retired guy that he used to talk to at work when he first started working that always complained about politicians and how they needed to be voted out of office after a couple of terms, regardless of what party they were affiliated with. My dad never forgot that man and said the older he got, the more he started to agree with him. Now my daughter has kids of her own and I'm passing that story on to her. It never gets old, and is still just as relevant, even though the story is older than I am.
     

    majormadmax

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    Sorry, but I don't side with Patterson on this issue (although I am a fan of his). The Alamo has become a Dollywood-style attraction. There is little reverence in its current state. The traffic in front is horrendous and dangerous to distracted tourists, and the "speakers" certainly don't belong at what should be a solemn location. The moving of the Cenotaph is only to return the site to as close to its original condition as possible.

    I have had no issues with Bush during his tenure as Land Commissioner, he appears to be working on behalf of the citizens of Texas and especially veterans.
     

    Eli

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    Jorge Pendejo Bush can go back to Flori-duh or his mother's homeland for all I care - he's made it painfully obvious he's not a traditional Texan, and used his name to get elected. Turnabout is fair play, though, and the guy that was primaried last go-round is back with a LOT of friends!

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    http://www.mystatesman.com/news/loc...cealed-weapons-agency/0fwMlyzlZalMIPQWl3sMHJ/

    Now Jerry Patterson is out and George P. Bush is in as land commissioner. And last Friday, Bush’s staff announced a new policy in which General Land Office employees would no longer be allowed to carry concealed weapons on the job. (It’s semi-important to note that Patterson, then a state senator, authored the concealed carry law.)

    The Friday announcement via email to GLO staffers said the new policy would take effect Jan. 1. But on Monday, after “feedback” from those staffers, the agency did what looks like a 180. There will, spokeswoman Brittany Eck said, be no change in policy, though it will be in writing for the first time.

    What it means is concealed handgun license holders at the GLO can carry on carrying at work.

    The proposed new rule that was shot down (sorry) was described in last Friday’s email to staffers as “updated GLO policy on possession of weapons on state property.” “As always,” Chief Clerk Anne Isdal said in the email, “your questions and feedback are encouraged and welcome.”

    The short-lived, never-implemented policy was straightforward: “A GLO employee may not possess or carry a firearm or other weapon on his or her person while on the premises of the GLO or while performing official duties for the GLO in any other location.”

    It was to apply to CHL holders and said exceptions would be made, including for security personnel “acting within the scope of his or her duties.” Additional exceptions, the policy said, could be granted for GLO employees who work in “field offices or other remote areas of the state where safety could be a concern.”
     
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