{"id":3196,"date":"2023-06-01T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2023-06-01T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T18:17:09","slug":"will-challenges-discriminatory-program-on-behalf-of-texas-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"WILL Challenges Discriminatory Program on Behalf of Texas Small Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-challenges-discriminatory-program-on-behalf-of-texas-small-business\/\">https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-challenges-discriminatory-program-on-behalf-of-texas-small-business\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The News:<\/strong> Today, as part of its nationwide Equality Under the Law project, the Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-30-Letter-to-Bexar-County.pdf\">letter<\/a> to Bexar County and its County Manager, David Smith, condemning its racially discriminatory \u201cSmall Business Assistance Program.\u201d Bexar County is using $10 million of federal tax dollars to support small businesses; but the program discriminates against many businesses based on race, including WILL client DigitalDesk, Inc. WILL\u2019s letter notifies the county that it will file a lawsuit on behalf of DigitalDesk if the discrimination does not stop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The Quote:<\/strong> WILL Deputy Counsel, Dan Lennington, stated, \u201cUnless our government stops discriminating based on race, America will never achieve its promise of equality for all. Government-sponsored race discrimination is a nationwide problem. Like many other local governments, Bexar County is picking and choosing winners based on race\u2014this is truly a despicable and unconstitutional policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Background: <\/strong>Bexar County is home to San Antonio, the 7th largest city in America. Funded by $10 million from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Bexar County Small Business Assistance Program provides grants to small business owners impacted by the pandemic. The Program offers grants of up to $50,000 for qualifying small businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">DigitalDesk, based in San Antonio, is a software development company that offers a suite of software tools designed to enhance learning and assessment processes of educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bexar County\u2019s grant program offers a racial preference to businesses that are \u201cminority owned.\u201d As seen in the chart below, minority-owned small businesses receive six additional points, which could mean the difference between receiving a grant or not.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28471 alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-30-at-11.11.19-AM-1024x632-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Read More: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-30-Letter-to-Bexar-County.pdf\">WILL Letter to Bexar County<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>May 30, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_4 et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_0 clearfix  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WILL_Daniel_Color_003_WEB_980x617_100ppi_Sharpened.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Lennington\" class=\"wp-image-9999\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n<h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Dan Lennington<\/h4>\n<p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">Deputy Counsel<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>dan@will-law.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"et_pb_member_social_links\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanLennington\" class=\"et_pb_font_icon et_pb_twitter_icon\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-challenges-discriminatory-program-on-behalf-of-texas-small-business\/\">WILL Challenges Discriminatory Program on Behalf of Texas Small Business<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\">Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-challenges-discriminatory-program-on-behalf-of-texas-small-business\/ The News: Today, as part of its nationwide Equality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}