It’s a Texas Goat Rodeo!
Oh y’all, this is more fun than recess in heaven. There’s a Republican fight in Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott is no liberal by any standards. He is not, however, totally insane and a follower of QAnon. Okay, let me back off the totally insane part because sometimes he is. But he is not suicidal.
You can’t say that much for other Republicans in Texas and that’s what makes this so damn much fun.
Back in July, Gov. Abbott extended early voting in the November election by one week. Early voting will begin October 13th instead of Oct. 19.
Well, here it is late September and The Quorum Report – behind paywall – is reporting this morning under breaking news that Texas Republican Party State Chairman Allen West (yes, that Allen West), “Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, conservative activist Dr. Steve Hotze, Sen. Charles Perry, Sen. Donna Campbell, and others have signed onto a lawsuit against GOP Gov. Greg Abbott focused on his decision to extend early voting in Texas.”
No shoot, Sherlock, they are going to the Texas Supreme Court, who took “Equal Justice Under the Law” off the court building and replaced it with “Attilas the Huns” once they seated nine far right conservatives on the bench.
They waited until campaign materials were printed, people to work the polls were hired, locations were reserved, and things would get real crazy if you change things that are written in print and hanging on peoples’ refrigerators doors. And then, and only then, did they want to shorten early voting time.
And then, to add a third ring to this circus, they went to the Texas Supreme Court, which I may have mentioned is total Republican. Four of the nine of them are up for reelection and face a strong challenge by four Democratic women with sparkling credentials and a boatload of money. So, no matter which way the four of them rule, they are going to piss off this group of Republicans or that group of Republicans. If nothing else, Democrats will know their names when they go vote and what they do for a living, which is something judges like to hide now that Texas doesn’t have straight ticket voting.
Oh Lordy, this is going to be fun. You know, in fights like these, I always say it’s sad that one side has to be the winner. But no, Texas Republicans have been kind enough to give us a case when both Republican sides lose no matter what happens.
I grew up in the South. Most whites did not and do not believe in self-government. Otherwise I would not have had to demonstrate for voting rights since 1963.
1Allen West’s Vice Chair is Cat Parks who resides in my county. What a piece of work. She took time this week to defend on Facebook the folks stealing Biden/Harris signs. Yep. The Texas State VP of the Republic a/k/a Law AND Order Party is defending trespass and stealing of personal property. These folks have got to go.
2Well, good to know the TX Republican Party approves of my Biden sign getting stolen out of my yard. It lasted about 2 weeks before some thug snatched it. I have replaced it, of course; some have suggested attaching a note to the new one, saying that for every time my sign is stolen, I’ll donate another $100 to the Biden campaign. Might have to do that.
3IDK, seems to me like Moscow has called the play, and the players are all in motion–chaos everywhere, at every turn, in state and national races, confuse the voters about where and when and how to vote, what will be counted and when and who decides what a state’s vote totals are. Fake stories, outrages, armed groups provoking protesters, while the moves that count are hidden in the fog of war. We’ve got to be like Napolean’s Guard Corps on the battlefield in 1812–fixed bayonets, eyes front, steady tread toward our goal, not distracted or delayed by anything, not even comrades falling, not even threats to our own lives, not alarms or shouts or stampedes. The Cossacks couldn’t break them then, and they won’t break us now.
4Jill Ann, I think that’s a brilliant solution to yard sign theft.
5Am I missing something? If the Governor loses don’t the people lose?
6Yard signs are a mystery to me because I don’t know how anyone could pick a candidate from a 288 square inches of cardboard. But I noticed on my ride through redder eastern CT today that the most common signs (aside from thank you essential workers and Be Kind) are for state and local offices. With no party mentioned. Maybe it doesn’t matter or maybe they’re afraid to admit it.
There were a couple of businesses with large tacky Trump displays. Makes it easy to know who not to have put new gutters on your house. Someone dumb enough to be fooled by the conman is too stupid to be walking on a roof.
7Yeah, here’s the deal, Mary Beth – it’s a long term ouchie and it’s a Republican thing. If the Governor wins, he will be defeated in the next GOP primary. If the QAnon people win, they will piss off Republicans standing in line. And, Honey, it’s 2020 – the people always lose.
8This has all the earmarks of a bar fight, where you got’a sit back for a few minutes and just take it all in, before you walk over slowly to break it up!
Up next, someone has to channel Brandon deWilde, “But Shane, there’s too many!”
9So many chupacabras, so few goats
10Politics is just Hollywood for ugly people, but it’s a shame that lives are at stake.
11Lazrgirl, same here in the reddest county in Maryland. Only signs I see are for a local judgeship.
But that may just be because everybody knows Trump will win by 40 points. The only political bumper sticker I have seen says “Loneliness is being a Democrat in Carroll County.”
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