Because Voting Information Should Be a Damn Secret
Texas Voter ID Laws have done a complete 180 thanks to the courts who say that they were a flaming damn mess.
There is going to be $2.5 million campaign to educate Texas Voters about the changes in the law. That’s a good thing, right? WRONG.
Our lying thief of an attorney general says it’s partly a secret where he is going to spend that money. We can’t let the taxpayers know where the money is going, now can we? Especially since every damn elected statewide Republican has gotten bad press for throwing money at their unqualified friends.
The judge has also granted a request from Paxton’s office to keep some details of the outreach plan under court seal, preventing public scrutiny of such things as which regions state officials could target with ads and which groups have been identified to receive education materials.
Which, in my mind, means they will all go to East Texas.
And would you like to know which law Paxton used to defend his “secret” voter information plan?
Paxton’s legal team cited a 1978 case involving President Richard Nixon, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that media outlets could not have access to tapes from a Watergate obstruction trial.
Well, there ya go. When you gotta rely on Richard Nixon …
Oh hell, Texas, you’re still a flaming damn mess.
Wendy and Leticia… ah, well.
Texas? Y’know, maybe you should secede.
1Wow. I retired & moved from Iowa to Austin last December and despite Texas Tribune and this site, I am still dazed and confused by politics here in Texas. How long does take to adjust anyway?
2When you have to rely on Nixon’s ghost, you know you are stuck in the middle of a Hollywood version of Shakespeare!
3Rikon Snow@2: As to your question of how long does it take to adjust to politics here in Texas? I’m 53 years old. Born and raised in southeast Texas. I’ll let you know when it happens.
4Thinking of escaping the hellatiously cold Minnesota winter sometime in January in the southern part of Texas.
Do you see the shooting stopping by then?
(I know. I know. Ask a loaded question and ….)
5Just about everything I read about Texas politics makes me despair for humanity because there’s never a mob with torches and pitchforks demanding these jackwagons be ridden out of town on a rail– they just keep mindlessly voting for them.
6Rikon Snow, welcome to the blueberry in the tomato soup bowl that is Texas. Agree with P.P. that will have to let you know. And I’ll be eligible for Medicare a few days after the election.
7Rikon, honey, I got to be a Texan by default or something (getting lost on the highway?). We lived 7 years on a ranch in west Texas. It took our kids about 20 years to more or less forgive me. Then we moved to the Big City, which I still love (Abilene) and lived there another seven years. Then we took a notion to move to Austin and been here 18 years. You can find me on Facebook and we can go have coffee and discuss Texas politics. Or not discuss it. The main thing I found hard moving from New York to Texas was that if you say something others don’t agree with, they either change the subject or leave.
8Good luck! There’s lots of great, interesting folks here. I love it. Of course our house and wheels are paid for.
Never. That’s my answer after almost 30 years here. I will never adjust as long as Texas is what it is.
9Do not understand it. I have in my wallet a perfectly good, unused, Voter Registration Card my County Registrar regularly sends me, but when I go to the voting box, they say it is no good I must have a picture id, preferably one holding a gun of any sort.
10Which causes me to wonder why the Voter Registrar spends all that time and money on the printing and mailing of these little blue cards. Economic development?
Austinhatlady: You go on Medicare the first day of your birth month. Be ready.
11A long time ago, I found out that the only area in the US where all 4 indigenous poisonous snakes occurs is in South Texas (about 50% of the state area) and Eastern Louisiana (about 50% of the state area). I have always wondered if there was any connection between that fact and the state of Texas politics.
And as the years produce hotter and hotter summers, I also observe that the TX body politic gets more and more sun struck.
12Lived in Dallas for my first job out of college in the early 1980’s. That was the longest 18 months of my life!
13Am I ever glad I don’t live in Texas. Not that there aren’t damn fine people in Texas but ugh! Your rethuglican politicians are lower than slugs. And they set the standard for lying, stealing
14from taxpayers, cheating the voters out of their votes and about a hundred other things. But hey, they’re all good Christians so with any luck they will be raptured away before they cause much more harm.
@Mel
Yep Texas is a effing garden spot. Everything in Texas bites or stings, including the politicos. It’s not IF you confront a rattlesnake-copper head-water moccasin-coral snake but WHEN.
Same for tarantulas, brown recluse and black widder spiders.
And of course cougars, alligators, coyotes, wolves, feral hogs, a few kinds of scorpions, fire ants, and the occasional sting ray and man-o-war out in the Guffa Mexico
15Never been to Texas. See no reason to go. When I want warmth in the winter I go to New Mexico.
16Maine! Look up there for awhile! Paul LePage is the guy that floated the idea of rolling back child labor laws as soon as he got into office………yeah, ok. Nobody does it like we do in Texas. I think the problem here is the attitude summed up by a buddy at work. If yer gonna be a bear, be a grizzly. Seems like here in Texas, repugnantcan wisdom is that there’s no sense in being a d**khead unless you’re doing it at mach 3 with your hair on fire.
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