I am in Coppell. We were spared in this area thankfully. Both my Great Aunt’s live in Granbury. One was a mile away from where most of the damage was done. We are so thankful they are ok.
Just for laughs and giggles,
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
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The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
“That was Chicago politics,” said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. “Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right? It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice.”
This goes straight to Obama’s doorstep, the news media know too, they are all guilty.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/
So glad to hear your aunts are ok.things look very bad down there!