All posts tagged "Dan Patrick"

A red state leader's claim during an Oval Office visit was met with an outpouring of corrections by online critics.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told reporters on Friday, "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution," while standing behind Trump. The Texas Board of Education approved a required reading list earlier that day that included passages from the Bible.

The reactions online included fact-checking posts that pointed out where the Separation of Church and State comes from and its relationship to the Constitution....

The internet mocked President Donald Trump after he was caught sleeping — again — during a White House press conference on Friday.

Trump appeared to doze off while sitting in the Oval Office while Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick stood behind the president with television personality Dr. Phil and Dr. Ben Carson, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first Trump administration. Patrick claimed there was no such thing as separation of church and state in the United States.

"Separation of church and state is not in the Constitution," Patrick said....

Coastal Texas was under hurricane and storm surge warnings on Sunday, as the southern U.S. state braced for the approach of Beryl, which was threatening to make landfall as a hurricane.

The city of Galveston, southeast of Houston, had issued a voluntary evacuation order for some areas, with videos on social media showing lines of cars heading out of town Sunday afternoon.

As Beryl’s winds intensified, acting Governor Dan Patrick called on Texans to be on alert, listen to local officials, and leave the danger zone if possible....

A Texas state lawmaker running for lieutenant governor suggested President Barack Obama thinks he possesses godlike powers to control the weather.

Dan Patrick, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Texas, argued this week that the reason Planned Parenthood clinics were being forced to close throughout the state was because they did not have "anything" to do with women's health.

Texas Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst (R) took a tune from the Disney songbook for a strange new ad attacking state Sen. Dan Patrick (R) on Wednesday, KXAS-TV reported.