Battleground Texas

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Originally Posted by RandomGuy

Hmm. Did you miss the part where I said that it didn't look like she would win?

It will be a few more election cycles before anything really competitive will be seen at the state-wide level in Texas.

I will still be a bit more active in the Democratic party in the next few years.

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Well Good Luck with that.

What part of Texas does this accent come from? Sounds like Orange County, CA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIolQPkF6sw

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

What part of Texas does this accent come from? Sounds like Orange County, CA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIolQPkF6sw

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Awh shucks Cletus, she don't talk right.
And where is thet get dem Stetson hat and starched shirt...

Texas is for Texans who care about Texas while thinking in Texan.
If Texas was not for Texans, then it would not be Texas.
Standard republican Texan talk in the great state of Texas.

That good for you, Darrin?

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Originally Posted by SnakeBoy

Well Good Luck with that.

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Luck will have nothing to do with it.

The GOP will continue to be its racist, homophobic self, and continue to alienate hispanics, despite shameless, ham-handed pandering.

What I will be pushing from within our state wing is for Democrats to figure out that the route to wresting control of the state is to stop taking Hispanics for granted and actually advocate for them in a way that is respectful and addresses their concerns as a whole.

A reasonable path to citizenship, and additional social services to provide a ladder out of the pit of poverty would do just fine. All one has to do then is to sit back and let the GOP self-destruct with talk of amnesty and dirty brown people not deserving handouts. Might even get people like vy65 to advocate children starving to death as a solution to poverty again. Stuff like that makes my job as a Democrat a lot easier, and even you know it.

Simple really.

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

unions are the only power employees have against employers.

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As an employer: this statement is bullshit.

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Originally Posted by 101A

As an employer: this statement is bullshit.

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employees without unions, without the protection of employment contracts, are totally without power, EXACTLY how the decades-long War on Employees intended, and it intends to keep it that way.

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Originally Posted by RandomGuy

Luck will have nothing to do with it.

The GOP will continue to be its racist, homophobic self, and continue to alienate hispanics, despite shameless, ham-handed pandering.

What I will be pushing from within our state wing is for Democrats to figure out that the route to wresting control of the state is to stop taking Hispanics for granted and actually advocate for them in a way that is respectful and addresses their concerns as a whole.

A reasonable path to citizenship, and additional social services to provide a ladder out of the pit of poverty would do just fine. All one has to do then is to sit back and let the GOP self-destruct with talk of amnesty and dirty brown people not deserving handouts. Might even get people like vy65 to advocate children starving to death as a solution to poverty again. Stuff like that makes my job as a Democrat a lot easier, and even you know it.

Simple really.

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:lol

I'm sure you are still stinging from the election results and not thinking clearly but that's really no reason to go full bouton's.

Proving how hilariously DUMB he is:

RNC Chair: GOP 'Could Have A Problem' In Texas If We're Not Careful


http://a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/...pch6cipzoe.jpg

Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said Friday that he believed the party needed to take the threat of Democrats becoming competitive in Texas seriously or it could start turning purple by the end of the decade.

Though Republican Greg Abbott trounced Democrat Wendy Davis in the gubernatorial race on Tuesday -- which lead commentators like Red State's Erick Erickson to say that the Democratic Battleground Texas initiative got "curbstomped" -- Priebus said the national and state party had taken it "pretty seriously."

"I do believe that Battleground Texas did a lot of work down there. They woke up the party," Priebus told reporters at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington, D.C. "If we don't start paying attention ... it's possible the party could have a problem in years to come."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-battleground-texas-reince-priebus?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

TX is so viciously gerrymandered, the TX legislature so totally owned by BigCarbon, Dems don't have but the tiniest of chance to take statewide offices.