Texas Bans DEI In Hiring
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 9, 2023) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has just told state agencies - including state universities - to stop considering diversity in hiring.
In a formal legal memo written Monday, Abbott’s chief of staff Gardner Pate told agency leaders that using diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI] policies in hiring violates federal and state employment laws.
Pate said DEI initiatives illegally discriminate against certain demographic groups — though he did not specify which ones he was talking about.
“The innocuous sounding notion of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has been manipulated to push policies that expressly favor some demographic groups to the detriment of others,” Pate wrote.
This presumably would put an end to the policies at Texas Tech University which were highlighted and criticized by public interest law professor John Banzhaf.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-02-10/texas-bans-dei-hiring
NewsNation reporter arrested during a news conference after Ohio law enforcement told him to stop his live broadcast
“Governor DeWine did not request that the reporter stop his live broadcast, nor did he know that the request was being made,” his office said. “Because the governor did not witness what occurred after the broadcast ended, we cannot provide comment on what led to the reporter’s arrest.”
When reporters asked DeWine about the arrest at the end of the news conference, he declined to comment on specific details but said it is common practice for journalists to report live from his events and that they have a right to do so.
“That person had a right to be reporting. They should have been allowed to report,” he said. “If they were in any way hampered from reporting, that certainly is wrong and it’s not anything that I approve of. In fact, I vehemently disapprove of it.”
Just got home!
Opted to stay home instead of watching the super bowl at my sister's house,instead watching it on a lil square on my tv at the sportsmix channel! LOL!
I hate DirecTV! ha!