And We’re Flat Butt Broke Here
It ain’t like Texas has money to spare. We spent what little we had left on security for Governor Rick Perry to embarrass the entire damn state while running for President.
And now Governor Perry and his little buddy Attorney General Greg Abbott are having a dollar burning party with their failed efforts to redistrict Texas so we would vote to join the confederacy and then require voter ID that made you have a driver’s license, a voter ID card, and a letter from your Momma attesting that you weren’t born in no damn test tube or something.
They, of course, lost all those lawsuits and it cost Texans $2 million and counting. The reason I say “and counting” is that in Texas, the losing side of a lawsuit, thanks to Republicans, has to pay the attorneys fees for the winning side. Their original goal in passing that cunning piece of legislation was to keep little guys from suing big corporations when big corporations hurt or killed them. Well now, it’s come back to honk their hiney because everybody in Texas hired a legal team to represent their interest in court – The Texas Democratic Party, LULAC, NAACP, and a particularly militant branch of the PTA. The State of Texas will have to pay all their attorney fees.
Happy NOW, Rick and Greg?
Rick and Greg have vowed to appeal because, after all, it’s not their money they are burning. They will lose and Texans will pay.
All this just to keep legitimate college students, grandmas, and minorities from voting because, dammit, those people don’t vote for Greg and Rick.
One other thing – if attorneys in private practice had screwed up a case as badly as Greg Abbott did, they’d be fired. They would spend the rest of their legal careers practicing out of a trailer park. So, I don’t want to hear one word about market forces from Greg Abbott, Mr. Tea Party, ever again.
Hey Greg, it seems to me that they treaded all over your hiney.
Thanks to Ben, the Riverwalk Guide in San Antonio, for the heads up.
boot marks on the hiney, what a fashion statement
1“and a particularity militant branch of the PTA”
Love it, as my mother back in the 60s helped radicalize our local PTA. She is still a transplanted southern woman with an attitude and a habit of making school board members flee up supermarket aisles when they see her shopping–even after all these years.
2When can these IMBECILES get impeached for malfeasance, misappropriation of the citizens’ money or GENERAL STUPIDITY WHILE BEING COMPLETE IMBECILES?
No money for nothing but paying fancy-pants lawyering who have UNDOUBTEDLY told these dunces they are LOSERS and WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE.
Criminy, here in Nashville the BaggerGuv is telling Metro-Nashville Schools (we are one of the few city-county govts in USA) they get NO MONEY because Metro Council said NO to RELIGIOSITY CHARTER SCHOOLS outta, where? Arizona. Yeah, no money for public schools if they DO NOT GO TEXAS-STYLE of NO KNOWLEDGE for STUDENTS and put them Religious Charter Schools. Right here in the buckle of bibull belt, church on every corner and storefront, said NO.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120913/NEWS04/309130048/Great-Hearts-school-ends-charter-bid-Nashville
3Looks to me like that serpent is stranglin’ his ‘A’.
4We recently had a dispute with a merchant in Austin over a flagrant example of dangerous merchandise and misleading advertising. As part of my war of attrition against the company I filed a Better Business Bureau complaint, a complaint with the credit card company, and one with the AGs office. The first two came through for me; the AG office sent out a form letter stating they didn’t have the resources to investigate individual claims.
In other words, the little guttersnipe says there is plenty of money to litigate politically-motivated claims but none to do what they are supposed to do. Pretty much sums up this state’s government doesn’t it? Greg Abbott is pretty much the only candidate who could be an even worse governor than Perry.
5You mean Greg Abbott is not currently practicing out of a trailer park?
6“HONK THEIR HINEY” – BUD VOTES AYE.
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