Pratt on Texas

Pratt on Texas

Robert Pratt has been active in Texas Republican politics since the Reagan re-elect in 1984. He has served as Lubbock County Republican chairman, and in 2006 founded the Pratt on Texas radio network, providing the news and commentary of Texas on both radio and podcast. Learn more at www.PrattonTexas.com.
Texas House Speaker Race: Don’t Be Sucked Into a False Argument
Texas House Speaker Race: Don’t Be Sucked Into a False Argument
January 8, 2025
The race is about the basic idea that the leader of the House—who controls the flow of all legislation to an almost a dictatorial level—should be...
Pratt: Poll Shows Astounding Ignorance on Texas Property Taxes
Pratt: Poll Shows Astounding Ignorance on Texas Property Taxes
May 17, 2022
Tax increases are made solely by local government officials when they set a new tax rate each summer for their coming fiscal year.
Pratt: Texas Democrat Reality Is a Universe of Its Own
Pratt: Texas Democrat Reality Is a Universe of Its Own
November 16, 2021
Texas Democrats tried to make the case that State Rep. Ryan Guillen is leaving the party because his newly drawn district lines would make it hard to...
Pratt: Warped Use of COVID ‘Relief’ and Definition of Distance Learning at Odessa College
Pratt: Warped Use of COVID ‘Relief’ and Definition of Distance Learning at Odessa College
October 28, 2021
Odessa College’s piano purchase is a perversion of what funding for local distance learning is meant to be.
Pratt: Republican-drawn Political Districts Are Most Always Branded as Racist, and It’s a Big Catch-22
Pratt: Republican-drawn Political Districts Are Most Always Branded as Racist, and It’s a Big Catch-22
October 21, 2021
How should Republicans handle this in the press and public eye?
Pratt: Part of Texas Big Freeze Showed More Money and Regulation, Not a Solution
Pratt: Part of Texas Big Freeze Showed More Money and Regulation, Not a Solution
September 24, 2021
"Those who claim the solution to a problem is always more money or more government regulation ... are demonstrably wrong."
Pratt: Are Texas Republicans Being Racist in Opposing Racist Constructs?
Pratt: Are Texas Republicans Being Racist in Opposing Racist Constructs?
May 17, 2021
“The bill does not restrain school lessons on racism, its ugliness, or its existence; the bill attempts to restrain one nasty form of bigotry and...
Commentary: What Some Call a “Stunt” Was Consequential for Taxpayers
Commentary: What Some Call a “Stunt” Was Consequential for Taxpayers
September 10, 2019
What some call a “stunt” was consequential for Lubbock taxpayers and instructive for every conservative county commissioner in Texas.
Commentary: Texas’ Big 3 Riding Too Far Out Front on Tax Swap Idea
Commentary: Texas’ Big 3 Riding Too Far Out Front on Tax Swap Idea
May 7, 2019
"It is a policy I generally favor but, even liking the idea, I cannot support it without knowing the detail."
Commentary: Rule of 72 and why any election-trigger property tax cap above 3% is a failure
Commentary: Rule of 72 and why any election-trigger property tax cap above 3% is a failure
March 1, 2019
If legislators fail and agree on 5% for the election trigger, then your property taxes can easily double in about 14 years. And remember, that means...
Local officials fabricate claims about appraisal cap legislation
Local officials fabricate claims about appraisal cap legislation
February 25, 2015
Since local government officials across the state are on a full-court press to prevent passage of property tax appraisal reform legislation, I think...
Texas Democratic Party as Student Council
Texas Democratic Party as Student Council
November 5, 2014
One headline Tuesday night read “Blue Hopes Drowned by a Sea of Read”, another “Democrats fail miserably in attempt to turn Texas...