Posted on 05/28/2014 7:06:58 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
AUSTIN (AP) - State Sen. Dan Patrick has defeated three-term incumbent David Dewhurst for the Republican nomination for Texas lieutenant governor.
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I understand your position.
A stock market crash will kill their budget and public employee pension plans.
I’m a Californian also but I don’t live there anymore.
The lesser evil approach is how you wind up with republican senate leadership that regularly provides critical procedural votes for Harry Reid's agenda, and then show votes for the rubes back home.
/johnny
That would be my guess.
But he has a serious problem now.
People just don’t like him, and rightfully so.
He is a nasty bit of work.
I’d look for Dewhurst to get into a position with some group whereby he
represents those wanting to move/expand in Texas. He knows the ins/outs
of the processes and could offer/grease the wheels. jmo.
“The Majority of Ca are good conservative folks, but the citys are a scourge politically. Same in Tx.”
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! Us “country folks” are self-sufficient, but not so the city dwellers. But Texans need to beware of the cities and what they and their “leaders” will try to exact from the rest of us. California was a wonderful place for years, but gradually the cities gained power ( and they were “helped” by the SCOTUS “one man, one vote” ruling), and now here LA and SF control the whole state. So too will Houston (queer mayor), Dallas, and San Antonio (Commie Mexican mayor) ultimately control Texas unless you figure out a way to blunt their efforts. Lots of Freepers like to crap on California, but they are fools if they think that they can move away from the problem of creeping Socialism and not have it catch them (or more probably, their children). I guess we can thank God that these people were not in the majority when the country was in it’s formative years, because with their thinking, there would not likely have ever been an America in the first place. In reality, they are little different than those they hate because they are unwilling to confront the problem that we, as a nation have today.
I simply will not vote for progressives. And I am tired of being blamed for Obama. He is the result of progressive Republican candidates that Republicans lost.
I’m fortunate to live in Texas, so I get to vote conservative.
Even in cities, the “city” and surrounding areas are not always the same. The Houston city limit is drawn in a very erratic way to avoid bringing conservative voters inside the city limits.
Texas has a strong base of social conservative Christians, and Evangelicals, that gives it a natural conservatism that states like California never had, Texas is different because of the voters, the people, not because there is oil.
California was seen as liberal, even in the 1960s even though republicans were doing fine, it was never a very conservative state.
California was never known for being social conservative.
Noticed that this was one of two races that involved an incumbent and both incumbents lost.
/johnny
I think a total of 3 incumbents lost last night. Only 2 retained their seats.”
My source of info was the voting results published by the Secretary of State and they may not have had up-to-date info posted when I checked. Just too many to keep up with on the basis of names and I have my hands full with just keeping up with our County let alone the whole state.
We do keep up with what’s happening in Houston/Harris County though because we are in an adjoining community and county on the way to the Gulf. And, as you know, everything flows toward the Gulf - the good, the bad and the ugly and everything coming from Houston right now is UGLY and BAD.
Maybe, but given you are generally wrong about basically everything you post here, I doubt it.
Money and organization is what it takes in modern politics.
We may wish that were not the case, but it is.
Aside from you dragging in your personal grudges from thread to thread to make a personal attack against a reasonable post, you won’t name a single mistake that I have made, and this is not one.
California and all the other states that have gone blue have money, in fact ALL states have money, Texas is different not because of money but because of it’s famous social conservatism and strong Christian base.
Texas people are conservative in a way that social liberal states, and non-Evangelical states, could never be.
Actually there were four incumbents that bit the dust last night in the 19 runoff races.
https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/may27_173_state.htm?x=0&y=2936&id=434
Ralph Hall - CD-4
David Dewhurst - LtGov
Bob Deuell - State Senator Dist. 2
Stefani Carter - State Representative District 102
“Aside from you dragging in your personal grudges from thread to thread”
What are you talking about? I actively avoid threads you are on because you are an idiot. I only responded because you posted to me.
You’ve got me confused with the 50 other posters tired of your inane comments.
Are you stoned drunk, or stoned, who are you and what are you raving about?
California was never known for being social conservative.”
While I would probably disagree with your premise as a general observation, I do know (from what I was told by my parents who moved here in 1936) that back then, the “professors” at UC Berzerkley were saying that they were going to make Berkeley the first Communist City in the US. Now here, almost 80 years since these pronouncements, they are still trying, but not having the “success” that I am sure they envisioned. I actually graduated from UCB in 1965. Today the Campus Republicans are a bigger force than the “Free Speech” types that were making trouble when I was there. Also, after WWII Los Angeles was still a very nice place, but now it’s turned into Mexico City del Norte with a minority Black population that’s been eclipsed by the Mexicans and doesn’t know WTF to do save elect moron Marxists like Maxine Waters (California’s answer to Texas’ Shiela Jackson Lee).
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