Posted on 01/14/2003 3:41:13 PM PST by chiller
The Things You Learn on the Road
From The Republican Legislative Staff Seminar Austin, Texas
The National Democrats will continue to play the race card as long as the national press corps buys their act. We understand that. But here are some nuggets I dug up while in Austin over the weekend:
In a state which is regularly ridiculed by the Upper East Side and LA intelligentsia (now being led by Brad Pitt) for being white-bread-and-red-necked, the people of Texas elected three African-Americans to statewide offices this past November.
Wallace Jefferson and Dale Wainwright were both elected to the Texas Supreme Court and Michael Williams was elected chairman of the influential State Railroad Commission.
I believe that would be three more African-Americans elected to statewide office than, say, (just to pick a state out of the air ...) New York.
Maybe Bill Clinton should move his office to Austin.
All three African-Americans elected in Texas are Republicans.
Never mind on the Clinton office move idea.
In fact the Texas GOP has, since 1994, elected five minority candidates to statewide office. For their part, Texas Democrats have elected four minorities to statewide office - since 1872. That is not a typo. 1872 is correct.
Open your copy of the Authorized Biography of George W. Bush and take a look at the time-line. When was he first elected Governor of Texas? 1994.
Gosh. Imagine that.
Texas Pubbies elected 3 AF-Ams in November alone! Wake up Black America!
If he tries it, we Texans will kick his a$$ clear back to Arkansas!
TXnMA (No Longer!!!)
What blows me away is that there's an elected Texas State Railroad Commission and that someone campaigned to be on it.
Thanks; I spit beer all over another keyboard.
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