“Public universities are for education not leftist indoctrination”
Harrison and his colleagues in the legislature wrote a letter on Nov. 21 to the University of Texas leadership that he shared on X. The legislators stated they were “extremely troubled” by the University of Texas’s decision to broaden eligibility for the Promise Plus program by accepting applicants “whose families earn up to $100,000.”
The letter asked if the expansion “will apply to students who are enrolled in the ‘LGBTQ/Sexualities Studies’ Minor,” and if it will force “a working class Texan, who did not attend a college or university and is making $45k/year,” to “ [subsidize] the child of a parent who makes $100k/year?”
In his X statement, Harrison wrote that “nothing is free,” and called the expansion an “outrageous abuse of power.” He continued, calling on the Texas legislature to “stop this Nancy Pelosi-esque, regressive, welfare-for-the-rich program that abuses working class Texans by forcing them to fund ‘free’ college for ‘LGBTQ Studies’ students.”
