Posted on 10/12/2013 7:53:13 PM PDT by ziravan
On the surface, Texas is one of the reddest of red, Republican states. Republicans control every statewide office. In fact, no Democrat has won a statewide office in nearly 20 years nor has Texas voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976. Republicans also control both houses by large majorities. The tradition of Texas being a Republican state seems secure enough that outgoing Governor Rick Perry bragged that “the University of Texas will change its colors to maroon and white before Texas goes purple, much less blue.” So, with all of this power locked up in Republican hands, does this mean that Texas Democrats have very little opportunity to accomplish anything?
The answer would be quite the opposite, and no, I am not talking about Wendy Davis’ filibuster. While it did accomplish one thing, showing how a yelling, screaming, heckling audience could paralyze Republican Senators and the Lt. Governor, it did not stop the law in question (HB 2) from being passed. However, Democrats in both the Texas House and Senate are very successful at getting laws passed and enacted.
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Texas House Speaker Joe Straus is a Democrat in all but name, he was only made speaker by Democrat votes.
I have always been a Republican.
My family were Dems, but NEVER Lefties.
When the ComDems took over the Dem Party in the late 1960’s the shift began. The entire Deep South and Texas are solidly Republican. There are places where low information voters have control in some of the states & especially in the cities.
Rick Perry WAS NEVER a leftie. FACT. I grew up 14 miles from his family, have never met him, he was a few years younger. I know both of his parents. The Perry’s came to this county about 3 years before mine. My family settle here in 1889.
Red states are Democrat / progressive / communist / socialist states.
Blue states are Reagan / conservative / democratic-republican states -— see either election map for 1980 or 1984.
Austin, TX is messed up, and leftists have been messing with Texas for 100 years, contrary to protests.
Nope, will not happen.
There are many fine Hispanics who are Republicans. The State chairman is an excellent example of that. He is doing a great job and is a party unifier, not a divider.
Before TX turns Blue (ComDem) there will be a hot war.
Yep. There was a time when the Texas Democratic party was somewhere to the right of the national Republican party.
Yes it is, I think Austin should secede and be walled off
“somewhere to the right of the national Republican Party”
Yes, and that is not saying much. It was a great deal to the right of the National Republican Party. Those guys left the Dem Party as it became the ComDem Party. Never to return.
Then why not do what we do in Washington, we put pressure on them the legislators that support him Tea Style?
Colorado was a left wing Democratic state not too long ago. Gary Hart and Pat Schroeder were Colorado Senators.
Gary Hart was a senator. Pat Schroeder was a US Representative.
They were both moderate compared to the Dems. of today in Colo.
I have never understood why the Reds are considered blue.
But if they moved to Seattle or Portland they’d be considered “not weird enough” by the locals.
Weak GOP leadership!
Fine, let them all move from Austin. Remove that stain on our state.
Universities may have concealed carry if they so choose now.
Hours required in concealed carry classes were cut back this legislative session.
Because the media chose the opposite color to hide the fact that the ComDem Party is Commie Red.
New York moved to California and now California is infecting Texas. I love my state but definitely not all it’s people.
Universities could allow concealed carry on campus before the recent law.
Read the old statute and you will see that carry by CHL holders is permitted pursuant to written authorization or policies enacted by the the administration.
The universities always opposed.
This law made some people think something was done, but essentially nothing changed.
Sorry to disappoint.
How about this?
Please don’t recommend a ZOT for me here.
What if (assuming we can’t primary him out) we hold our noses and convince all the anti Strauss people in his district to vote for the Dem?
That single Dem can’t do near the amount of damage that this ass hat has done to our state.
Once he is gone the conservatives in the house won’t have to worry about being put in an impossible spot by having to vote for a sure loser as Spaeker (and subsequent assignment to the most meaningless committees in the House).
He has to go! I don’t care what it takes.
When I moved to Houston in 1969, as a Democrat from Chicago, there was only one Republican that held a state wide office, and he was a drunk.. LBJ presidency changed all that, and changed the state to solid Republican within 6 years to solid red, from then on..
I was still a holdout until I served as Chief of Protocol for a Democrat Governor in 1972, and was an insider behind the scenes, and saw too much to ever vote for them again..
I quit that cushy post within the first year because I could not stand the things that I saw and was asked to participate.. They were and still are despicable people indeed..
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