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« Reply #425 on: September 08, 2014, 03:58:11 PM »

And now we get to spend these last weeks of campaign season discussing Wendy Davis' elective abortion.

Was just about to post this. Obviously she wasn't going to win, but it could have at least been somewhat close. Still, very sad that she had to make that decision.
I'm not sure on that point.

The parts of the book that have got the most attention (terminations of pregnancies for health reasons) are part of the public record. She's down enough in the polls that it could be worth trying to bait Republicans into saying something stupid.

I never heard about her having an abortion before this. Whether or not someone had an abortion is certainly not a part of the public record.

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This is disturbing because it implies Davis viewed a second-trimester fetus as a person and, by extension, chose to commit murder by ending that person's life.
I was under the impression she mentioned it during her filibuster.
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« Reply #426 on: September 08, 2014, 07:24:20 PM »

Davis has no chance. Why should Abbott debate this woman?

Because it's pretty important for voters to know their choices in an election.

Even if she is going to lose it's a disservice to democracy if he's not willing to contrast his views with hers.
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« Reply #427 on: September 09, 2014, 12:05:39 AM »

Davis has no chance. Why should Abbott debate this woman?

Yeah, why should we even bother having an election!
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« Reply #428 on: September 17, 2014, 12:53:09 PM »

If there was any doubt Davis was doing this as a way to springboard to the head of some feminazi organization.........
Pffffttt... please. She's too right-wing for feminists to support her. She's pro-death penalty, supports fracking (#1 cause of rising cancer rates in the state), and isn't even really pro-choice in the sense that she's not going to make a crusade to re-establish abortion access throughout the state - she'd let it wither away and die once in office, even if she had control over that matter (and a Democratic governor almost certainly will not).
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« Reply #429 on: September 17, 2014, 01:10:23 PM »
« Edited: September 18, 2014, 11:17:56 AM by TexasGurl »

This thread sure is bringing out the idiot brigade...
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« Reply #430 on: September 17, 2014, 01:32:02 PM »

Livestream link for Friday's debate (6pm Central time)

http://texastribunefestival2014.sched.org/event/c5af9719056b26322f0c85341c01fdf0#.VBnTcvldU18
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« Reply #431 on: September 17, 2014, 08:39:40 PM »

If there was any doubt Davis was doing this as a way to springboard to the head of some feminazi organization.........
Pffffttt... please. She's too right-wing for feminists to support her. She's pro-death penalty, supports fracking (#1 cause of rising cancer rates in the state), and isn't even really pro-choice in the sense that she's not going to make a crusade to re-establish abortion access throughout the state - she'd let it wither away and die once in office, even if she had control over that matter (and a Democratic governor almost certainly will not).

Also, she's probably to the right of most non-Southern/Western Republican governors as far as gun control is concerned.
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« Reply #432 on: September 17, 2014, 08:42:45 PM »

I had a very bizarre dream last night. Rick Perry was running for reelection this year and Bill White was running against him, setting up a rematch of 2010.

Also, I guess Texas operated under a joint-ticket system in this reality, because former Houston mayor Bill White's running mate was former Houston mayor Lee Brown and they had made these "White and Brown" campaign signs that featured a brown-and-white color scheme. I don't know who Rick Perry's running mate was.
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« Reply #433 on: November 29, 2019, 05:42:43 AM »

Echoing a new generation of Virginia Democrats who declared their independence from Dominion Energy, the preeminent power and energy company that has long dominated politics in the Old Dominion, a new generation of Texas Democrats are declaring their independence from the similarly dominant oil and natural gas industries in their state:

Some Democrats swear off oil and gas money, risking ‘third rail’ of Texas politics

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(…) Hernandez, who brought in roughly a quarter of the vote in her 2018 primary run against former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke, is one of at least three Democrats in the primary election who have sworn off taking money from the industry, unafraid of the message it might send to voters working in those jobs — hundreds of thousands in Houston alone.

They argue that Texas, the nation’s top producer of wind energy, can lead the nation in transitioning to all forms of clean energy as well, creating plenty of jobs in the process. And they say it’s a vitally important move in the face of a climate crisis, as evidenced by repeated massive floods hammering Houston in recent years.

It’s a new approach for Democrats in the state where oil and gas has long reigned supreme. Even Beto O’Rourke accepted hundreds of thousands in donations from the industry in his 2018 Senate run — bringing in the second-most in donations from the industry of any Senate candidate that year, behind only his rival, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Other Democrats in the Senate race have already accepted thousands from the industry, which they say will be a key partner in the eventual transition to clean energy.
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« Reply #434 on: November 29, 2019, 11:53:36 PM »

Echoing a new generation of Virginia Democrats who declared their independence from Dominion Energy, the preeminent power and energy company that has long dominated politics in the Old Dominion, a new generation of Texas Democrats are declaring their independence from the similarly dominant oil and natural gas industries in their state:

Some Democrats swear off oil and gas money, risking ‘third rail’ of Texas politics

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(…) Hernandez, who brought in roughly a quarter of the vote in her 2018 primary run against former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke, is one of at least three Democrats in the primary election who have sworn off taking money from the industry, unafraid of the message it might send to voters working in those jobs — hundreds of thousands in Houston alone.

They argue that Texas, the nation’s top producer of wind energy, can lead the nation in transitioning to all forms of clean energy as well, creating plenty of jobs in the process. And they say it’s a vitally important move in the face of a climate crisis, as evidenced by repeated massive floods hammering Houston in recent years.

It’s a new approach for Democrats in the state where oil and gas has long reigned supreme. Even Beto O’Rourke accepted hundreds of thousands in donations from the industry in his 2018 Senate run — bringing in the second-most in donations from the industry of any Senate candidate that year, behind only his rival, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Other Democrats in the Senate race have already accepted thousands from the industry, which they say will be a key partner in the eventual transition to clean energy.


> DSA candidate with no chance does something DSA candidates with no chance usually
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« Reply #435 on: December 03, 2019, 06:05:16 PM »



I don't care for the rating, but the retirement is a further sign of GOP troubles the booming parts of the state.
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« Reply #436 on: December 03, 2019, 06:12:56 PM »

The name of the city always makes me laugh, like Sugar Land lol what type of name is that
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« Reply #437 on: December 03, 2019, 06:24:42 PM »

The name of the city always makes me laugh, like Sugar Land lol what type of name is that
It grew sugarcane lol. What do you expect, Willy Wonkas candy factory?
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« Reply #438 on: December 03, 2019, 06:26:18 PM »

The name of the city always makes me laugh, like Sugar Land lol what type of name is that

Orange County CA was named after the Citrus which grew plentifully in the region back before suburbanization Tongue
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« Reply #439 on: December 03, 2019, 06:34:16 PM »

The name of the city always makes me laugh, like Sugar Land lol what type of name is that
It grew sugarcane lol. What do you expect, Willy Wonkas candy factory?

Just sounds funny lol Tongue

The name of the city always makes me laugh, like Sugar Land lol what type of name is that

Orange County CA was named after the Citrus which grew plentifully in the region back before suburbanization Tongue


Orange County is a pretty cool name and it’s a county name not cities . Like their is no city in their called Orange Land
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« Reply #440 on: December 04, 2019, 09:49:14 AM »

The name of the city always makes me laugh, like Sugar Land lol what type of name is that

The name comes from a sugar refinery which was built around 1900. (Imperial Sugar)
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« Reply #441 on: December 05, 2019, 07:28:01 PM »

The name of the city always makes me laugh, like Sugar Land lol what type of name is that

The name comes from a sugar refinery which was built around 1900. (Imperial Sugar)
1843. Imperial Sugar is considered to be the longest extant business in Texas.

Originally there was a Sugar Land Plantation, on the site of which developed the company town of Sugar Land.
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« Reply #442 on: December 05, 2019, 07:51:59 PM »


I don't care for the rating, but the retirement is a further sign of GOP troubles the booming parts of the state.
Oddly enough he suggested that his opponents in the Republican primary were only running because they were Asian

Miller had been listed as possible appointee for Commissioner of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which may have drawn challengers.
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« Reply #443 on: December 05, 2019, 07:55:51 PM »

Reading through past messages,

Tricia Bivins divorced David Dewhurst in 2016. In August 2019 it was reported that she was suing him over money from their divorce settlement.

Wendy Davis has filed for TX-21 listing her occupation as "community advocate".
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« Reply #444 on: December 06, 2019, 09:11:38 PM »

Dewhurst doesn't seem to have had much luck with marriage.

He didn't marry until he was in his late 40s, to an ex-beauty pageant queen named Tammy who developed a drinking problem and constantly embarrassed him at rich people parties with her drunken outbursts. That marriage ended in divorce.

Then he married Tricia, who previously had been married to state senator Teel Bivins. That clearly didn't work out either.
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« Reply #445 on: December 06, 2019, 11:49:54 PM »

Dewhurst doesn't seem to have had much luck with marriage.

He didn't marry until he was in his late 40s, to an ex-beauty pageant queen named Tammy who developed a drinking problem and constantly embarrassed him at rich people parties with her drunken outbursts. That marriage ended in divorce.

Then he married Tricia, who previously had been married to state senator Teel Bivins. That clearly didn't work out either.

Are there gay rumors with him or am I mixing him up with someone?
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« Reply #446 on: December 07, 2019, 05:09:37 PM »

Dewhurst doesn't seem to have had much luck with marriage.

He didn't marry until he was in his late 40s, to an ex-beauty pageant queen named Tammy who developed a drinking problem and constantly embarrassed him at rich people parties with her drunken outbursts. That marriage ended in divorce.

Then he married Tricia, who previously had been married to state senator Teel Bivins. That clearly didn't work out either.

Are there gay rumors with him or am I mixing him up with someone?

I've never heard anything about that.

You may be thinking of Rick Perry: during his 2012 presidential campaign, someone released a very poorly-sourced tell-all book including interviews with men who claimed they had discreet hookups with Perry while he was governor.
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« Reply #447 on: December 10, 2019, 04:49:18 PM »



Another one. Zedler won re-election by just 3.64% in 2018. Ted Cruz won this district by just 0.14%.
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« Reply #448 on: June 20, 2021, 07:29:26 PM »

The Texas Republican Party is chomping at the bit to take South Texas beginning in next year's midterm elections:

Republicans think they can take South Texas — especially after a win in McAllen
Statewide officials are campaigning in the Democratic stronghold and GOP groups are now targeting statehouse districts.

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George P. Bush’s first trip outside Austin after he announced his campaign for attorney general wouldn’t surprise anyone watching Texas politics these days: Like many other ambitious Republicans, he visited South Texas.

The state’s current land commissioner, who is seeking to unseat incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton, spoke with members of the Border Patrol union along the Rio Grande, met with high school students in San Juan and helped clean beaches on South Padre Island.

It was part of a flurry of GOP activity in the predominantly Hispanic region this month. Nearly a year ago, Republicans’ relative success in the areas along the Texas-Mexico border helped them fend off the strongest challenge to their political dominance by Texas Democrats in decades. Now the GOP wants to take the fight to the Democrats in next year’s midterm elections and attack one of the state’s most reliably blue regions.
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