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Omi-Polari posted:There a shitload of these districts. So really any I thought the raw milk thing was a joke of yours, but nope, I kept reading and there it is. Along with are freedom to buy incandescent light bulbs  because FREEDOM Oh my God, and a gold standard, repeal of Dodd-Frank, repeal of pinko-communie freedom-hater George W. Bush's Sarbanes-Oxley Act, eliminating citizenship-by-birth  , making US war crimes immune to courts martial, bringing back Reagan's Star Wars, Benghazibenghazibenghazi, unilaterally recognizing Taiwanese sovereignty (despite the wishes of the Taiwanese, obviously)...Goddamn, what a ride. It started out with me going "Hey yeah, we should roll back the Patriot Act" and "Yes, I agree the Texas Lottery puts the tax burden on the poor" and then it slowly devolves into unfiltered crazy until I'm left wondering how I got to infowars and can I ever get back. And then it ends on a bizarrely bittersweet note quote:Congressional Apology- The Republican Party of Texas endorses and supports the Proposed Congressional Apology to the Chinese Americans for governmental actions that denied equal rights to and adversely harmed the Chinese in America. 
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Omi-Polari posted:As I was saying earlier, I don't think the truly cray-cray stuff reflects the majority view even among the Republicans and certainly not the leadership. It's really the product of a quirk in the way they create the thing, in that it allows a fringe minority to get their pet causes on it, otherwise they sabotage the sausage machine that is the Texas GOP platform process. Does anyone even read the thing anyway? That's probably why they don't bother fixing the process. Get all the Jesus and racism in there so the candidates have a list of talking points to rile up the base, and then just figure no one will bother getting all the way down to the freedom to drink milk right from the cow tit while thrashing my son and punching the missus.
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I don't think I've seen this posted, but the televised Davis-Abbott debate is tomorrow (Friday) night at 6pm CDT. Davis' site has a list of TV stations boradcasting it in various cities. http://www.wendydavistexas.com/debate/
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blackguy32 posted:I thought he had backed out of it? If I remember right, he agreed to this one afterwards. Or something. I don't know.
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Rabble posted:No that was it. I'll be voting VTP She could be known for eating live kittens on TV for all I care. Her opponent is theocrat crazyman Dan Patrick 
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1stGear posted:Ahahaha holy poo poo patrick just called Wendy Davis an anarchist. He's also referring to 20-week fetuses as "5-month-old babies"
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GreyjoyBastard posted:( "I care about women, if they're five month old babies" wasn't bad). Unless they're Mexican. then gently caress 'em! What if there were only one seat left at UT and the child of an illegal got it because the Democrats let them pay in-state tuition?
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How about Dan Patrick's proposal to take care of apartment dwellers by giving the owners of their buildings additional recourse against higher property tax assessments? Because we all know, when property values go up, if we keep property taxes low, apartment owners will pass those savings on to you! They certainly won't use the hot real estate market in their area to jack rents regardless and sell to the high-income gentrifiers that are moving into the area!
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For people who don't care about other cities' local ordinances, the texas legislature sure has a curious number of bills targeting things like Austin's plastic bag ban.
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quote:For Abbot I love that you seem to recognize Dan Patrick is a crazy person yet you somehow can't bring yourself to vote for the obviously better candidate 
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Even I couldn't bring myself to vote for Dan Patrick though; I just left it blank. gently caress that guy.
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Frackie Robinson posted:Come on, I basically cast 1/2 of a vote for her. That's true. And I appreciate it. Incidentally I wonder, if Literally Hitler got the GOP nomination, by how many votes would he win Texas because  moderate Republicans went "Well I won't vote for Hitler but I sure as hell won't vote for no Demmycrat! "
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Ninkobei posted:While I respect your thoughts, Nope Godwin's Law is about comparisons, ie figuratively Hitler. I was discussing what would happen if the Texas GOP nominated Literally Hitler. 
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Rabble posted:"When a guy in a wheelchair can move faster than Austin traffic...", a direct quote from one of Abbott's ads. From the number of times Greg Abbott's ads bring up his weelchair, you'd think it was the actual candidate. But don't point out that he fights tooth and nail against Texas paying to put in a single wheelchair ramps in public buildings besides Abbott's office because how dare you make a man's disability into a campaign issue?
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So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...black people voting.
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I don't know, how does a campaign against women's health win women by 10 points?
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XCPuff posted:I voted for Davis. I almost didn't because of her commercial where she stated she wanted to raise the minimum wage. We sure wouldn't want to be a living-wage hellhole like Seattle.
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1stGear posted:"Hey, Austin is the fastest growing city in the country. What should we do about that?" But it was the wrong route, so better to wait another 14 years to try again when everything is even worse.
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So is there any way the Austin city council can get a rail project done or is there some arcane reason that it has to be a ballot initiative to happen?
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How much do you think the Capitol building will go for? I bet we could hawk that and build a sweet rail without having to vote on any bonds.
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Randandal posted:If East Austin is so tired of being poo poo on why doesn't it just secede and form its' own municipality? Poor parts of the country seceding to rule themselves don't have a good track record of success.
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You forgot the third best part: watching good ol' boy "small government", "local decision-making" conservatives run crying to Austin, begging the state to come in and pass a state law to stop cities from passing ordinances about plastic bags that they don't like.
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Another year of our state government wasting time loving around with cities and bitching about Austin and California.Austin Statesman posted:Declaring that freedom and private property rights should not be bound by city lines, Gov.-elect Greg Abbott on Thursday called for doing away with a “patchwork quilt” of local bans on everything from paper and plastic bags to fracking that he said threatens to turn Texas into California.
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Nonsense posted:This doesn't do away with local bans does it? Because that's loving nonsense. The plan is to pass a state law (like Oklahoma's law banning municipal minimum wage laws) to overturn local bans. Because local government is only good until it does something Republicans don't like.
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Yes! I've got a whole book of laws I'd love to see the legislature pass!
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Those people realize that they did indeed come and take it, right? "Remember the Alamo!" "Al, we lost at the Alamo" "No one remembers that!"
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To her credit (uggghhh feel so dirty), Governor Mary Fallin has indicated she will probably not sign the history-ban bill even if it passes because she's concerned denying students college credit will hurt their college career.
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quote:“They weren’t making a living selling piñatas; they were selling something else. I don’t want to speculate what that is.” However, he went on to suggest that it was likely “uncontrolled substances.” “That’s just my opinion, though,” French stated. I don't understand, what's wrong with selling uncontrolled substances? Don't all stores do that, since selling controlled substances requires permits or is just plain illegal?
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QwertyAsher posted:Every white person Fixed for D&D
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But...we already have an RFRA Are we just going to add anti-gay language to ours in a somehow even-less-plausible gambit than Indiana's?
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Even Rick Perry is ragging Abbott over this. http://www.mediaite.com/online/rick-perry-chides-texas-governor-over-jade-helm-ok-to-question-govt-but-not-military/ Rick Perry posted:“It’s OK to question your government. I do it on a regular basis. But the military is something else,” Perry said, per the Dallas Morning News. “Our military is quite trustworthy. The civilian leadership, you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.” When even Rick Perry is going "dude, aren't you getting a bit too paranoid about Obama", maybe you're getting just a bit too paranoid about Obama.
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Trabisnikof posted:Glad to see the ledg taking up the critical issues: Brand it on their foreheads and hang mirrors in the voting booth so they can be reminded where their health insurance comes from in every election. And so they realize whom Republicans mean when they campaign on throwing the moochers off the government tit.
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Randandal posted:As much as I hate the current legislature anything that pisses off people from Austin is probably a good law Yeah gently caress the poor that will really stick it to those yuppie hipster assholes. E: oh didn't realize it was the racist pizza delivery boy, I guess hating on people on assistance is an end in itself here
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I like it when people seem to recognize the conservative policies they support are horrible, so they justify it to themselves not on the merits of conservatism because there aren't any, but "well liberals are just so smug and superior so you see I really only vote for racism, classism, and homophobia because liberals have such an attitude problem that I can't support them." No sorry, you're a conservative and you like conservative policies. No one supports policies they dislike just to get even with those irritating hipsters.
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Yeah I hate the free market.
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gently caress the ROW posted:Actually people shouldn't be compelled to pay taxes for things they disagree with Except wars, right. Or do you want all taxes to be voluntary. "Please enter the percentage of the US budget to which you don't have moral objections and reduce your taxes due to this percentage. No lying."
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LeJackal posted:Was the implementation deeply flawed, or do you just oppose the idea of limiting the police's ability to harass minorities? Minorities get gunned down for just holding a weapon in open-carry states, even if it's a toy gun and they're 12 years old, because it's understood that anyone darker than a manila folder will always be seen as a reasonable threat to a police officer's life. "Constitutional" carry is whites-only carry and everyone knows it.
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