Reply #2: The problem is that we ALL live in that state in terms of textbooks [View All]

California controls automobile manufacturing standards. "California emmissions" as we all learned about from "The Price is Right" include catalytic convertors which the auto industry itself back in the day claimed would cause cars to burst into flames. Now they are required just like air bags.

Texas doesn't have more students than California but they waste money (TAX PAYER MONEY) simply to buy influence over textbooks. As the article points out the Texas schoolboard has been overrun with fundies. As this article clearly points out the Dominionists have focused their energy on influencing school boards (it is cheaper to get people elected on to those):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1716115&mesg_id=1716115

better link here
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8499.htm

Meet the Dominionists -- biblical literalists who believe God has called them to take over the U.S. government. As the far-right wing of the evangelical movement, Dominionists are pressing an agenda that makes Newt Gingrich's Contract With America look like the Communist Manifesto. They want to rewrite schoolbooks to reflect a Christian version of American history, pack the nation's courts with judges who follow Old Testament law, post the Ten Commandments in every courthouse and make it a felony for gay men to have sex and women to have abortions. In Florida, when the courts ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed, it was the Dominionists who organized round-the-clock protests and issued a fiery call for Gov. Jeb Bush to defy the law and take Schiavo into state custody. Their ultimate goal is to plant the seeds of a "faith-based" government that will endure far longer than Bush's presidency -- all the way until Jesus comes back.