House budget cuts for Rep. Drew Darby's District 72 total $135 million. Here's the projected breakdown:
Cuts to Medicaid comprise 75% of the total in District 72.
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District 72 consists of four counties, Coke, Mitchell, Scurry and Tom Green. The four counties have 18 school districts, five hospitals and numerous nursing homes. In addition ot ASU and Howard, Darby represents Western Texas College in Snyder. WTC is slated to lose $500,000 in prior funding.
Given Tom Green County's status as the trade center for the Concho Valley, Darby's focus should be broader than District 72. However, he is directly accountable to voters in those four counties. Come September Darby will no longer represent Mitchell and Scurry. He'll retain Tom Green and Coke, adding Concho, Runnels, Glasscock, Howard, Irion, Reagan and Sterling counties.
The Texas Senate passed a bone crushing budget vs. the House's limb severing version. The two chambers will reconcile the bills. The final product will spread lots of pain, directly and indirectly. Let's hope it's not the memory destroying kind. Voters, especially those impact by the jobs decimator, need to recall who spoke out and who remained silent.
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