November 21, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Leticia rocks!!
1Go, go, go!
2LOVE this! Thanks for the graphic, John! I will tweet out this picture on Saturday after Leticia announces! 😀
3All I remember is that she came directly to the filibuster from her father’s funeral. She threw herself into it, and is a bona fide GREAT PERSON!
4“At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over the male colleagues in the room?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4pcLr4ZN0
When I saw her say this on the livestream as it happened during the filibuster, I said “Whoa! Who is THIS? She’s got some STUFF!” 🙂
5She is a real force! I’ll be sorely disappointed if she doesn’t run.
6It’s not too early to donate a buck or two to her campaign.
7So, as a practicing pharmacist and Dem, maybe the good Senator could cross the aisle. in the spirit of bipartisanship, and make sure all those repubs not only have their meds with them but take them as their mental heath professional prescribes. Just a thought…
8I just love her.
9Help me out, I’m from Maryland. Is Texas one of those states where Gov and Lt Gov run separately? I know they do in VA but not in MD, where they’re linked as they are in the national race. So is Van de Putte running with Davis, or in parallel?
Yeah, I know, “Leticia” and “Wendy”, but women, like children and dogs, get called by first names, and often only men get a last name. I try to resist that.
10They are separate offices and the Lite Gov actually has the more powerful job as President of the Senate (setting agenda, appointing Senate committees, etc.) in the State Constitution.
11If the Gov and Lite Gov are simpatico, things run smoothly. If they are fighting, it is like all the leg strings in a fighting chicken breeding farm broke simultaneously.
Rhea, here in Texas we tend to call politicians and musicians by their first names, regardless of gender. This is particularly true if we like them or if they have a first name that works better than their last for identifying them. Lyndon Johnson was always just Lyndon, for example.
12@Rhea The same as Nancy Jane Moore said about Texas goes for New York as well: We call politicians by their first names here, regardless of gender. That is also true regardless of whether we like them or not. For instance, in New York City, former mayor Rudolph Giuliani was universally known as “Rudy”, whether or not we agreed with him. In more recent years, our current Mayor Mike Bloomberg officially ran as “Mayor Mike”. And of course, our very famous former NY senator is known worldwide as “Hillary” — no last name needed, regardless of how you feel about her. I don’t think it’s demeaning at all to refer to Wendy Davis and Leticia Van de Putte as “Wendy and Leticia”. In fact — like “Hillary” — it sets them apart and makes them sound warmer to voters than would “Davis and Van de Putte”. “Children and dogs” are very beloved to us, after all. 🙂
13I am about to watch Leticia’s announcement streaming live here:
http://www.livestream.com/nowcastsa
14I just tweeted John’s graphic to my followers. Leticia’s announcement kicked serious a$$. Definitely watch a video of the speech if you missed it live.
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