Thumbs Down to the members of the Texas Senate committee who proposed celebrating both Confederate Heroes Day and Martin Luther King Day on the third Monday in January. As could be expected. Sen. John Leedom of Dallas likes the idea because he wants to save taxpayer money by reducing the number of state employee holidays (King’s birthday is already a national holiday). We tend to agree with Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the county’s first black commissioner, who was quoted as likening the idea to celebrating his birthday with the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
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