texas politics

Greg Abbott said today https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1401978575054684175 What is 'patriotic education'? Will it involve teaching that Vicente Guerrero emancipated all slaves in Mexico in 1829? Or that 95% of Texas’ economy was based on cotton production picked by slaves? Or...

I'm not sure this really deserves its own thread, but the threads that it would have fit in have been closed with links to continuations in the conspiracy theory section, so here we are...

The executive staff of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have taken the step of publicly asking for a federal investigation of Paxton on a number of alleged acts of corruption, in a signed letter shared with local media. The rest of the article describes Paxton's earlier legal troubles; the...

I just heard that Will Hurd, the only black Republican in Washington, was retiring. Does this signify a big change in party composition? Or am I getting fooled again by ordinary political maneuvering?

Mary Hegar is a veteran running for Congress against a Tea Party candidate in Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MJ_Hegar ?v=Zi6v4CYNSIQ Her book Shoot Like a Girl, is in development for a movie possibly starring Angelina Jolie. This is the best kind of publicity a politician can obtain...

http://us.cnn.com/2017/05/07/us/texas-religious-freedom-adoption/index.html Basically if the reading of the bill is correct, a catholic child care provider can refuse adoption to an atheist, gay, or LGBT parent on religious ground. The tidbit about refusing teen abortion on religious ground is...

The mayor of San Antonio, one Ivy Taylor, has cited a lack of a relationship with some Creator as the main systemic cause of generational poverty. http://time.com/4757580/san-antonio-mayor-broken-people-religion-poverty/ I'm not inclined to agree. Thoughts?

http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/texas-mayor-comes-out-publicly-a Big, but nice surprise - a town in Texas had a male mayor who came out as a woman and the town supports her!!!!!!:):):):) :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

No way does that have anything to do with the Republican trash that run the state. :rolleyes: They are the pro life party! :rolleyes: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding

Plunging numbers of Texas abortions: Are clinic closings behind decline? It seems pretty obvious that the closings probably have something to do with it. Kind of illustrates why who gets to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy is crucial. It's not just Texas.

US Representative Pete Sessions (Republican, Texas) believes in magic and has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives that would recognise magic as a "rare and valuable art form and national treasure". House Resolution 642 includes the names of illusionists from Harry Houdini to...

Dear U.S.A., That people actually vote for Drumpf is truly hilarious. But now ... the one and only Robert Morrow is playing Politician too! Priceless. Regards, The Rest of The World.

On Tuesday Houston votes on a nondiscrimination ordinance called HERO. Naturally conservatives are being totally rational in talking about it. Ha ha. Of course not. After all, conservatives are incapable of normal things like feeling empathy, so of course they are saying all sorts of batty...

People I feel are really, really stupid. White's commentary for Texas Muslim Capitol Day: Is it really that difficult to forego that requirement? Do you really need to backhand everything that's different from you? Doesn't this fly in the face of the Constitution? Would she require this on...

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rick-perry-flouts-anti-rape-texas-prison-law When will those liberals realize that the freedom to rape prisoners is like sweet nectar from the tree of liberty itself?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/senate-candidate-wetbacks-ranchers This is brought to you by "Another Great Moment in GOP Rebranding".

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-gov-rick-perry-not-about-ride-sunset-n36806 The Daily Show writers rejoice.

Leave it to a Texas Republican to pick the wrong issues and attract the wrong voter base. There should be no doubt in anybody's mind that the GOP has a pretty solid lock on those single-issue voters who view the Democratic Party as the enemy of their 2nd Amendment right to carry outrageous...

On the off chance that anybody here might ever vote in a dem primary in Texas..... http://www.kesharogers.com Kesha Rogers represents the LaRouche group and, depending on your taste in syntax, either an attempt to reset the dem party to 1960 before the greens, Malthusians, and racists took it...

Under the blood moon, in a clearing in the Forest Of Fear, in the middle of the Ceremony Of Pain, after the sacrifice of the unicorns, while the fell wolf howled and the wurm Dryclor cried tears of blood the womb from the netherworld opened up and the spawn of demons was birthed into our world...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21215002-federal-judge-rules-key-provisions-of-controversial-texas-abortion-law-unconstitutional?lite Giant win for Texas, and a fail for Rick Perry, the religious right wing and in effect for the Republican party. It's about time. This ruling points...

I got a letter today from some guy named Dave (we are everywhere) who sent me a petition to sign asking for an amendment to the city charter to prevent mayor Anise Parker's gay agenda. (Anise Parker is openly gay.) It seems that she has not come down hard on gays and transvestites who use the...

Run, Wendy, run :D http://news.yahoo.com/democrat-wendy-davis-running-texas-governor-214809944--election.html Time to send her a donation, methinks.

Link here. Hilarious quote" Funny, coming from the state that has executed more people than any other.

Reading about it here http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/08/rick-perry-texas-governor-president/2497773/ This comment almost blew up my irony meter twice... Well, I guess it is about blocking the FEDERAL government from meddling in our personal lives...the state government...

It's live-streaming on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Q8Hr0O20LY. A heroic woman. ETA: Senator Davis can't sit down. She can't eat. She can't drink. She can't go to the bathroom. She can't even lean on her desk. She has to talk until midnight, with the few...

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/24/19117053-video-in-texas-rape-kits-debate-the-sound-of-abortion-politics?lite WHAT in the ACTUAL ****?!

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Americans have no right to freedom from religion It must be awfully damn hard to be a Christian in today's America. I salute the proud and courageous Texas governor for sticking to his principles and standing up for freedom OF religion. I'm curious though, since atheists...

so the latest Facebook meme has the United Nations policing polling places in the United States. the imagery is shocking! UN in troops complete with body armor milling about in order to kill the first thing they might construe as a voter fraud. naturally when you go to look at the actual story...

Well it appears that Texas has it's very own Tea Party Senator, Ted Cruz. True, the election is in November, but this is Texas. The Republican always wins. And the Tea Party, to their credit, did a great job of turning out the vote. I stood in line for over an hour just for a run-off election...