Letticia Sever

Boy mom, dog lover, Army brat/wife/mom, love my family & the sport of wrestling, school board trustee, advocate for public education 🍎, thoughts are my own

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Stadium critters out and about this morning 🦊 🦨 🐿️. Finally made it to 5 miles

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Humidity is brutal this morning. Still trying to get to 5 miles - so close to- but humidity was making me sick.

Mr. Security doing his job.

Whispers, “you don’t scare me”, as I walk by 😝

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Excellent explanation of where a school district’s money comes from as well as some factors that come into play in determining how much a district will receive.

[RaiseYourHandTexas @RYHTexas]

Do you know where Texas public schools get their funding? 💰🏫 School finance is complicated. In this video, we break down the sources of Texas school funding and the legislature’s role in funding our Texas schools.
https://t.co/CzNt4sdbh7
#FundOurSchools #TxLege #TxEd

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

So glad this election is over.
Back to regular programming …. Slowest walk of the week but enjoyed the cooler weather. Congrats to all the Allison Steele grads that will walk the stage tonight 🎓

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Texas GOP met this weekend. New platforms. They will no longer advocate for vouchers but rather a property tax credit (pg 17). Page 15 - they advocate to “axe the tax” (property taxes). How do you get a property tax credit if you don’t pay prop. Tax? https://t.co/tdtgT6bQMO

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Holy smokes it’s steamy out there! Can’t quite get in 5 miles when the humidity is classified as “oppressive”. Hope this doesn’t portend a miserable summer of walking

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Vouchers = double tax

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Love seeing our former students show up to vote! Two more days of early voting left, 7am-7pm.

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Early voting runs May 20-24, 7am -7pm. Election Day - May 28.

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Great discussion on John’s position re: vouchers & the border. At the 48 minute mark, there’s discussion about our county getting a TSTC - 👀- that’s a wow! & a pretty big deal for our county. https://t.co/gnez9seOY7

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Guess who owns Susquehanna? The very people who are pumping millions into this campaign. Want your property to be tax exempt? ….. open a private school.

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Of note in this video: 40% of budget was going to “administrative costs & services”

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Take a look at how Texas school dollars makes its way out of state. This scam - being played out with charters - is how those pushing the private voucher scam will make money off our taxes.

https://t.co/zHWZhry8SL

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Early voting takes place May 20-24, 7am to 7pm. Voting day is May 28. Education is on the ballot and we cannot sit this one out.

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Listen: After ⁦@GregAbbott_TX⁩ screwed Texas school districts out of billions pushing his voucher plan, he blames those schools for imminent layoffs. You gotta hear this #txlege https://t.co/miWGHZXi5W

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Yup! We’ve seen first hand here in HD44 how rich outsiders are able to influence voters in Texas with lies.

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

“…it’s a revealing campaign to explore, because it shows how easy it is for a foreign (and dubious) government to purchase influence in Texas, a state where the political system is already purpose-built to allow rich folks to buy influence”

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

I guess he figures everyone believes all the lies he & Jeff Yass are throwing at voters in this runoff so everyone will just continue to believe all the BS he spits out. We’ve not have any new revenue from the state since 2019 - and the state has a significant surplus.

[Jeremy Wallace @JeremySWallace]

"You’ll be shocked to hear this, but it’s not me that’s responsible for this," @GovAbbott said about school budget problems around Texas.

Even though he tied extra funding for schools last year to a voucher plan that couldn't pass, Abbott points the finger at feds & schools.

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Calling on Gov Abbott to call a special session on school finance, Rep @Jon_RosenthalTX and others wrote that Texas has a "surplus of $18 Billion projected to grow to $21.3 Billion. We have the resources available to better fund our schools." https://t.co/CdX40wayLI #TxLege

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Property taxes cannot leave the county. A statewide property tax is illegal in Texas. Vouchers will be funded by additional tax revenue - not the property taxes we already pay. This is why vouchers represent a parallel system that will forever require more and more tax revenue

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Now that Abbott’s folks had admitted they are lying, we know this race boils down to vouchers. That’s it. Let’s take a look at why Rural reps were targeted and understand this has more to do with subsidizing a private education for the wealthy in Austin, Dallas, & Houston

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

To add - if the legislation is so “radical”, why did Abbott sign it? And why does one of the Senate’s most conservative senators (Creighton) call the bill, “bold” and “forward thinking legislation”? Do you homework, don’t be a ♟️ in this voucher scam

[Letticia Sever @LSever5]

Abbott’s political strategist acknowledges these mailers are lies. They know this stuff is political red meat for low information voters. Dig a little deeper to find the truth & don’t allow yourself to be a pawn in this voucher scam