I Love Yew, Texas
Don’t mess with Texas, y’all, because Texas is messed up enough already.
Republicans in the Texas legislature are cognizant of the high probably the even their gerrymandered districts aren’t going to help much in 2020 to get them elected. As it stands now, they are cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
So in an overabundance of overstupidity, they have come up with some ideas. All of these ideas have the weight and guidance of a turkey feather in a strong breeze, but honey, that ain’t stopping them from pulling themselves up to their full intellectual stature of a frog and leaping over the United States of Damn America Constitution.
Here’s their first idea:
I wanted you to see that in black and white because, admit it, you would not have believed me if I had just told you. That means that the bus my 92 year old Momma used to take from her retirement apartment to go vote would be illegal, even if they were all voting Republican. Hell, they used to make it a social event and all went to have lunch at Luby’s cafeteria afterwards. We couldn’t get them to vote by mail because they just love the apple salad at Luby’s.
But, where the Republicans were trying to go wasn’t about upper middle class ladies who vote Republican mostly. No, they just did that accidentally. What they wanted to eliminate is Souls to the Polls, where black churches on the last Sunday of early voting, load up the church busses and head to the polls. Or Democratic candidates driving through neighborhoods in rented busses to get everyone to the polls.
And they did this because they are mean and don’t love Jesus.
They also have this little ditty. Nazi guards at polling locations. They want to make innocent mistakes a felony.
SB9, poised to pass the Senate, makes it more difficult for people who need assistance at the polls, such as seniors and the disabled. It gives partisan poll watchers the right to be in the voting booth when a volunteer is helping someone, a clear encroachment on the secret ballot. It also imposes new hoops to jump through for election volunteers, including those who drive voters to the polls.
They are foaming at the mouth, Darlin’, and there doesn’t seem to be a sacred right they ain’t trying to murder.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
My hubby is 75.
So if I drove with him in our car to the polls, that would be illegal?
I have a handicapped tag for my car. I am considered handicapped.
If he drove me, that would be illegal?
We only have 1 car.
Wow. The stupidity is astounding. And insulting to the disabled and older folks.
1Wow. I usually drive my elderly neighbor to vote.She’s feisty and could vote by mail, but she loves going in person. So, when I take her now, is it a misdemeanor or a felony? It’s amazing that I could get more punishment for that than if I committed treason with Russia.
2Amazing what she people can pull out of their (fill in the blank).
3snocilbupeR, disenfranchising America one state and multiple voting blocks at a time at a time. Their end goal? Voting restricted to the .01% who are registered Republicons.
Vote 2020! And, if you have the time and inclination, fight: https://democraticredistricting.com/
4Why don’t Republicans just come right out and say it, Every Vote Doesn’t Count. If they keep at it, maybe they can take us back to voting the way the Founding Fathers intended us to vote – – only white men with land.
5And I thought you Texans had enough trouble being pounded by storms, chemical plant explosions and whatnot.
Reading this was a memory jogger for me but I was unaware that the organization, True the Vote (TTV) is a conservative vote-monitoring organization based in Houston, Texas whose stated objective is stopping voter fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_the_Vote
The founder is Catherine Engelbrecht, whose angry expression in the link bears a strong resemblance to the 1975 B movie star: “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”
Y’all need a massive elder occupation of Hughes office for a photo op awareness with police escorting folks out the door.
6Here’s a photo of Hughes! It looks like he got his haircut the same place Hannity gets his haircut!
https://house.texas.gov/members/member-page/?district=5
7@Jane & PKM 4 – I’d agree except Trump didn’t do this without a lot of support from the working class. They’re cutting off their noses to spite their face.
8I have a pair of tennis shoes about ten years old that I used to run in. They are old, skunky but they make me smile when I see them in the back of my closet, so I keep them.
They are old shoes—-but they are smarter than Bryan Hughes.
9Malarkey, you’re right. But calling certain voters “working class” is probably a misnomer, especially those who vote Republicon. They may not have won the birth right white privilege genetic lottery, but they sure do seem to think they’re one PCH sweepstake from membership. Delusional, stubborn and always ready to shoot themselves in the foot, throat or wherever to keep one of Reagan’s mythical welfare queens down.
10TX Republicans are all pretty much oxygen stealing wastes of protoplasm.
11I guess that means my wife and I will have to take separate cars to early voting…
12Any guess on the first law suit? Mark interested.
13Fred Farklestone. He has seven kids and enjoys flying …in his free time. This made me laugh.
14Texas GOP trying to prevent anybody who isn’t them from voting is like sex with Donald Trump– all you can do is point and laugh.
15The Repubs should change their name to the party of voter suppression. That seems to be their main focus.
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