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I writing in Ann Richards.
lotta butthurt itt about the term "abortion barbie," which is pretty lols in itself as a term
people are meanies/say meanie things during elections
and before anyone says anything, I dgaf who wins
I writing in Ann Richards.
That is exactly right. The voter ID law here was very clearly intended by the GOP dominated legislature to keep the hispanic turnout low. Funny thing is that it ended up pissing off a lot of women because of the fact that many women change their last names when they get married, and dont' always get their paperwork updated.
It was a double whammy, that has motivated a lot of women to get a bit more pissed off at the party of "legitimate rape" than normal.
Sanger was definitely a mixed bag, and a product of her time. A lot like just about any historical figure we lionize/demonize.
I find the motives/opinions of people 100+ years ago to be of little use in deciding public policy today.
Why do you think they will vote for democrats?
I could be wrong, but lots of the people pouring in are here for the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford. Most of them tend to be republican or not vote at all.
One can only hope that this will backfire and get a lot of people pissed off enough to do something about it.
The overall campaign by the state GOP to suppress minority turnout is so blatantly cynical and obvious to anybody with any sense that one would hope that the realization that these unserved populations might realize the power they truly possess.
That depends on whether they are originally from outside the state or not, and what the mixture of that new population is.
I haven't seen any data on the effects of immigration from those coming to work in the fields.
I would, however, be willing to bet they are predominantly single men.
Not a demographic that will help counterweight the higher fertility rate of the state's hispanic population. It takes two to make kids.
Me too.. so much for affirmative action then.
Fair point. Most are actually married but have their families living in other areas, sometimes other states but usually just larger cities within driving distance to their various areas. But I acknowledge that this is only a small portion of the immigration to Texas. I should say most of the people that I work with in the area. I work with probably the ten largest operators and midstream companies in the area but I realize this is mostly anecdotal.
Affirmative action should grandfather and fade eventually.
The analogy though, isn't quite all that valid is it?
affirmative action is based, in part, on current motives/opinions.
Oil field trash and the like are a major component of the base of the republican. Without those morons, the Republican Party would be dead.
I have no idea why people think that AA won't be necessary in the white minority future. We'll double down and get a quota system. As I've said before, TX in 25 years will be 60% Hispanic, 25% white, and the remainder mostly black with a small % Asian. How's it going to go over if UT, A&M, and the rest don't come anywhere near that over 70% black + Hispanic percentage? The government will fix that; it just takes one court case. If you want to see the future of AA in the US, look at how it works in Malaysia. It's roughly 70% Malay with the remaining 30% Chinese and Indian. The majority put in a quota system for university enrollment, hiring and promotions to keep the minorities from dominating those spots. The US will do the same. Most of everyone on this board will easily live to see it. And if you think about it, that's the way that you would think AA would work, a majority looking out for their best interests, not the opposite as the white left in the West has devised. LOL that AA is going to fade. Not a chance.
Back to Wendy Davis:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgr...student-loans/
Ouch. Here come the smears, as predicted. Although she should be able to at least dismiss the ditching her own child on the step father thing.Wendy Davis is a hero because she wore pink sneakers while holding a filibuster in support of murdering children. Then Melissa Harris Perry wore tampon earrings on MSNBC in support of Wendy Davis and also became a hero. It’s easy to be a hero these days.
Now Wendy Davis is heroically running for governor in Texas and the media keeps calling her heroic because of her amazingly heroic life story.
A single mother working two jobs, she met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13 years older than her, married him and had a second daughter. He paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters while she was in Boston.
When they divorced in 2005, he was granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him. Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.
In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part and conflicts that the couple could not overcome. The final court decree makes no mention of infidelity, granting the divorce solely “on the ground of insupportability.”
When she was accepted to Harvard Law School, Jeff Davis cashed in his 401(k) account and eventually took out a loan to pay for her final year there….
Over time, the Davises’ marriage was strained. In November 2003, Wendy Davis moved out.
Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”
Wendy Davis’ amazing heroic life story includes heroically using her husband as an ATM to pay for Harvard, heroically cheating on him, heroically divorcing him after using him to get the last loan payment and heroically dumping their kids on him.
A former colleague and political supporter who worked closely with Davis when she was on the council said the body’s work was very time-consuming.
“Wendy is tremendously ambitious,” he said, speaking only on condition of anonymity in order to give what he called an honest assessment. “She’s not going to let family or raising children or anything else get in her way.”
Wendy Davis really is the perfect poster child to campaign for abortion. I wonder which of her daughters she wishes she would have killed.
think of how much lower the minority population would be if yall didn't restrict access to abortions
An old sugar daddy cashed in his 401K to put her through law school? Dayuuuum. LOL sounds like Wendy could be a spokesperson for seekingarrangements.com and how it changed her life.
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Repug bas s, holy Bible-thumpers every one of them, already out with the policy-absent politics of personal destruction? They must be worried about opponent Wendy.
I really could care less that she ed a significantly older man to get through college and then law school and had his kid. She must be a damn good . he blew his 401K and then went into debt so she could live in Boston by herself while he took care of the kids at home in Dallas (his with her and hers from her first fling)
What makes her look like a heartless , though, is that she dumped him right after he made the last payment on her student loans and then gave away BOTH kids to him giving him FULL custody. Man, you NEVER hear THAT happening.
she sounds a cold-heart, -the-clients businesswoman, one you should vote for
of course, that's only the ex-hubby's story. and it's really, really relevant to policy and governing.
Trill, you can pick with me all you want but I don't respect a father that would give up joint custody of his kids, much less a mother that would give her kids away. It's not like health or money was an issue. She just decided the kids she birthed were too much trouble.
Eh, just about as heartless as dumping a wife with cancer while she's in the hospital dying. We get a scrubbed version from one party and a scathing version from the other. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
IF the ex-hubby's dump on his ex-wife is true, you chicken s who love Ayn Rand's "greed is good, everybody else" philosophy don't like it in practice?
I think Wendy will go far in politics after she moves back to Boston.
Are you talking about John Edwards?
the Ayn Rand/Repug business marriage: he pays, and he gets to her.
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