Texas-sized hangover
Texas has begun to come to grips with the expense of its law enforcement binge at the FLDS polygamous compound in Eldorado. State lawmakers have waked to face "extraordinary" costs related to the raid last month that scooped more than 460 children into state care.
Fighting polygamy ain't cheap: Estimates, so far, stand at $30 million over the next year.
Fighting polygamy ain't cheap: Estimates, so far, stand at $30 million over the next year.
State Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden told Health and Human Services officials:
We basically need to pay what it's going to cost to do the job right and we need to know, to the best of your ability, what that cost is so we can factor that in when we're making decisions about other worthwhile costs and needs in this state.
Here's a glimpse of the raid, by the numbers:
$5.3 million — Initial cost of the raid.One lawmaker wondered whether the state could make the adults on the 1,700-acre ranch — valued at $20.5 million — pay the state's bill. But that could be complicated — health and human services officials are still trying to figure out which residents are the children's biological parents.
$1.7 million a month — for the state to care for children scattered in foster-care facilities around the state.
$2.2 million — for local courts to handle legal proceedings for each child.
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Well, after the Texas Third District Court of Appeals threw out the raid, I guess Gov. Perry and everybody else in Texas can eat crow.
TEXAS GOT SHORT CREEKED!
For the safety of the children, I hope this goes to the Texas Supreme Court. Otherwise, that false prophet sitting in an Arizona jail would entrench those apostates into hunkering down, like David Koresh did in Waco.
Costs will only go higher. Maybe you don't mess with Texas, but you don't wrassle with a tar-baby either. Has anyone else noticed the irony that this all happennded in "Tom Green" County, Texas? That's the problem; they needed the expertise of Dave Leavitt.
Actually, Texas also needs to follow the law as well. In order for Texas to avoid the ruling by the Texas Third District Court of Appeals was that they should have followed the Texas Family Code to the T, and not vary the interpretation to the point where they violate the law instead.
I still believe the kids should be saved from Warren Jeff's foot fetish, etc. The problem is that if the social workers can't follow their own laws, then polygamy, and according to Jeff's interpretation, rape, incest, molestation, child abuse, underage marriages will continue to flourish, because Texas started to apply the Ghetto-style us-v.-them approach. You're not going to uphold the law by breaking it. Ask anybody in Harlem, Watts, and South Chicago
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