Y’all Are Famous in Texas
Lookie right here what you did:
(Click the little one to get the big one.)
Your friend and mine, Glen Maxey at the Texas Democratic Party, sent this to every county chair and SDEC member in Texas.
Glen’s special project of getting mail ballot applications in the hands of Texas Democrats over the age of 65 was an amazing success. I know this because Glen hoards exclamation points. When he gets real generous with them, you know the earth is shaking.
We went from 110,000 applications statewide in 2014 to $290,000 this year, and that’s not including Harris or Dallas Counties.
And if you’ll look real close, you will see yourself.
In 2016, with the help of a lot of County Chairs, SDEC members, officeholders and lots of small donors (especially Susan Bankston and her website), we will mail …
Indeed, indeed job well done.
Thanks again, Guys. Texas Democrats love yew!
Can we clone you into the other 49 states?
1And we love Texas Democrats. The women have been especially quotable. We’d love to see a lot more of them in office.
(“Five exclamation points is a sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.” — Terry Pratchett, “Maskerade”)
2Democrats nationwide must acquit themselves well in 2016. Failure is not an option.
3We love you back! Looking forward to a bluer Texas in 2016. Everyone gets a mail in ballot in WA State. Every damn voter. They can either put a stamp on it, drop it in a free drop box (one in every community) or take it to the county courthouse. The goal here is to get lazy people motivated to mark ’em and drop ’em. No excuses.
4I love it when a group of people come together to save the world!
Thanks Glen Maxey & Susan! Job well done!
5Arizona’s Permanent Early Ballot is my model! You request it when you register to vote and you are automatically on the list unless you move and don’t change your address. Since I do my address changes on-line for both voting and State ID on the same site, it takes just a moment to do both.
6It’s great to feel like we are actually making a difference. I hope Texas turns blue soon.
7JJ, that is wonderful news! Maybe I’ll get to see Texas turn blue during my lifetime…considering I never thought I’d see marriage license in my future and have now been married to my beloved for over 2 years, I have faith it will happen.
But, point of southern grammar…shouldn’t the y’all in your headline be the plural, all y’all? What can I say, once a cop, always a cop, even if it’s the grammar police…..
Love ya, JJ, and hope you have a kick-ass Christmas!
Donna
8Bless you all for you do good work.
9Happy we can help to turn Texas blue.
10Now, what can we do to make sure no senior is denied a vote due to not having the right ID, or does voting by mail take care of that in Texas?
11You don’t need a photo ID to vote by mail. I helped get applications to voters in my area in ’14, and tried to volunteer this year, but so far I’ve received no reply. I need Glen to provide the names and addresses. It’s sad that the application has to be sent in each year, when the voter registration certificate is renewed automatically.
12Actually, I was trying to volunteer to help next year. It’s too late for ’15, but ’16 is a big year, with a big election.
13My dear grandmother, who was a union proud Democrat, always voted on the first day of early voting and then always voted by mail on the first day ballots were available. She always said “I might die before the election and I want to make sure my vote goes to a Democrat.”
I loved that woman.
14I don’t have to worry about California, so I support your efforts, and Russ Feingold in Wisconsin.
15Great feeling to help the D’s in Texas. I have some skin in the game, a son, daughter-in-heart, and two grandchildren in Austin. Also contributed to the Molly Ivins video story. Texas may wake up to reality again.
16I was glad for the opportunity to contribute so that people who need and want to vote by ballot CAN do so.
I personally like to go to the senior center polling place and handover my registration card and have the poll workers mutter about a white-haired male democrat (rare in this part of Collin County). The stares (both ways) are priceless.
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