13-Hour Abortion Filibuster

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Lol.  I'm sexist.  I couldn't help but wonder why they chose a woman for this trial.  Then I read this...

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/26/wendy-davis-texas-abortion/2459135/

Uterus... Check
Hard scrabble life as teen single mom... Check
Harvard Law Degree... Check
Advanced physical training.... Check

They couldn't have built a better filibuster machine for this topic in a lab.

Damn. I didn't even think that this would be an option.  Very happy to see that Texas still has some decent politicians left.

The mayor of the largest city in the state is openly gay.

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Damn. I didn't even think that this would be an option.  Very happy to see that Texas still has some decent politicians left.

The mayor of the largest city in the state is openly gay.

I know. I thought for the most part that the mayorships of large cities were the only places where they had real political power, though.

Those cities contain millions of people and thus have seats in the state legislature and even in the DC delegation.  The cities in Texas are truly huge.  Of the top ten cities in the country only TX and California have three cities each that make the list.  That is a lot of people.  The problem is Texas has a gigantic land mass full of rock, trees, and rednecks.  The suburbs suck to.