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Badger of Basra posted:I was reading this article about the "efficiency audit" that just got put on the ballot in Austin: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2018-08-10/point-austin-strange-bedfellows-stranger-politics No matter how many times irl their dumb ideologies prove to be utterly bankrupt, they never give up. https://twitter.com/robhenneke/status/1028108270110748674 E: thank's for suing a city you don't represent because of your ideological compulsions zoux fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Aug 11, 2018 |
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i say swears online posted:lmfao she lost her loving service weapon If she was actually a GOP plant what would look different
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https://twitter.com/AbbottCampaign/status/1029732297078173697 Why exactly is Lupe Valdez the Democratic nominee for governor
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Well thanks to her for not challenging my hard ACAB stance. Never trust a cop folks. https://twitter.com/DMNPolitics/status/1029758829523869697 Good.....goood...... zoux fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Aug 15, 2018 |
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Aug 15, 2018 16:03
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https://twitter.com/emmaplatoff/status/1030144168956514310 If you listen closely you can hear the sound of hundreds of bills being filed in the legislature as we speak
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Aug 16, 2018 18:29
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Sab0921 posted:I'm really curious to see what their argument is other than it will destroy small business or whatever. Nope, that's it. https://twitter.com/emmaplatoff/status/1030184866309132288 Yeahhhh
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Aug 16, 2018 21:10
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McRaven loving roasted Trump in an op ed today, guess it's good he retired as chancellor before the Lege sid it for him. I don't agree with his ex-spook Honorable Man Brennan (who spied on congress) schtick but if'n it's bad fer Trump, I'm fer it. Especially with the media framing it as “Navy SEAL who oversaw bin Laden raid demands Trump revoke his own security clearance in rebuke”, that's really gotta piss him off
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1030417216838221824 Happy to run a gun-losing land lord cop against our terrible Republican governor so Castro can place fourth in the Iowa primary and drop out of the race 2 years from now e:lol https://twitter.com/bobbycblanchard/status/1030434828993347584 zoux fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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ReidRansom posted:Iowa can gently caress off and Castro should know by now there are cheaper and easier ways to land a minor cabinet position than spending two years campaigning for it. He already held a minor cabinet position
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At least it's not loving Tillerson
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UT was reportedly trying to get him back in May
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Oh I think theres just the one F Tard in this here situation
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https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1031181201191653376 Now this is some Whataburger based political pandering I can get behind
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I can't believe cofeve is still a thing
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Aug 20, 2018 15:15
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I blame the secret 3rd Castro brother who is actually the most electable of them all. But god she is so bad.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:59
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No question, he's jerked the Legislature to the right and Abbott has followed meekly along. Greg Abbott, Conservative Culture Warrior is pretty funny to anyone who remembers his pre-Obama stuff. He's just a massive opportunist and figured out he needed to get in on the grift.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:11
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Nice work gumshoes
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No.
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Aug 21, 2018 18:43
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https://mobile.twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/1032103451604516865 He can speak
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*extremely sincere piano keys*
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https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1032275375806734336 Proof that this is more about optics and politics than any kind of policy goal.
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Our boy has his first GQ byline, and it's about Cruz/Betoquote:All of us are horrified at how divided our society is. How much anger there is. It's really sad to see,” Cruz told her. The senator, who for years was the most well-known plotter in the reactionary rebellion against President Barack Obama, seemed pained by the rancor of our times. quote:There's a chicken-and-egg problem here, though, that O'Rourke can help them solve. The party needs a “good loss” in order to really start building its infrastructure—that is, in order to start luring good candidates and donors and volunteers who see winning as feasible. But even earning that first “good loss” takes some organizational and operational help from the party, and nobody in years has been able to jump-start it. The hope among many Texas Democrats is simply that O'Rourke closes the gap and loses by less than ten points, which many would take as an encouraging result, something to build on. It would spur other prominent candidates to jump into more races. It might even help O'Rourke lay the foundations for a future run. I think this is probably what's going to end up happening. Beto loses by low single digits, which finally gets the Castros of the world to stop cowering in fear and run in some goddamn races. Cornyn's up in 2020, that's going to be a massive turnout election with a hugely unpopular president so maybe that's Beto's chance. Cornyn doesn't cause people to recoil in visceral disgust though so it'll be a tougher row.
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If the R's take the bloodbath I think/hope they're gonna take in November, 2020 is going to look a lot different than the current electoral environment. Of course, that's dangerously close to optimism so it's probably going to go the other way. A Democratic chamber with subpoena power could do a lot to hurt individual Republicans as well as the party as a whole. We start getting into the "when did they know it" questions about Republican congressional leadership, and you could have a lot tarnished careers. Again, this all presupposes that good things can happen. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Aug 22, 2018 |
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Aug 22, 2018 18:39
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https://twitter.com/by_jmiller/status/1032373493030051840 gently caress me...
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That's RV not LV so enthusiasm is gonna matter a lot. Also MoE is +/- 3.8 and oh god I'm handicapping polls again
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Well, regardless of the outcome, at least today Ted Cruz is secreting ichor in terror tonight
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Spacebump posted:Hopefully the costal elites running the GOP/country don't pour money into our local campaign. This seat represents control of the Senate so
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Depends on if Sinema can beat whichever nutjob emerges from the AZ senate primary
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Menendez is a different animal since with him it's about his history of corruption rather than being a Dem in a red state. Anyway abolish the Senate, Wyoming should not have as much say in that chamber as California https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1032624115084091392 Just, just lol if they lose Tom DeLay's seat zoux fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Aug 23, 2018 |
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Yeah I know but the thought of suburban Houston Republicans tearing their hair out is good to me.
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https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1032632419550023680 Video had 12 million views before being tweeted by the GOAT
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Comrayn posted:they will still dutifully show up at the polls and hit that straight ticket button. That is the major question isn't it
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We don't really have a photo ID law anymore. https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1032626299012096003 lol zoux fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Aug 23, 2018 |
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Marxalot posted:Did something happen fairly recently? Because I had to show mine to vote in the primary. You have to show ID but if you don't have one you just have to sign an affidavit saying you are who you say you are, and you can cast a full, not provisional, ballot. I guess maybe that could possibly be intimidating for a few people but the material obstacle isn't there any more. quote:The original law, which was known as Senate Bill 14 and was passed by the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature in 2011, required voters to show a driver’s license, passport or other government-issued photo ID before casting a ballot. The law took effect in 2013, and it was found by the same federal appellate court to have a discriminatory effect on black and Hispanic voters, many of whom lack government-issued photo ID. From a NYT article about a federal appeala court upholding the modified law zoux fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Aug 24, 2018 |
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Badger of Basra posted:I think the bigger issue is probably people who don’t know you don’t need one. I think the judge said they had to do an education program but I am confident that if they did one it was lovely Yeah but that'd be the case if they had straight up overturned SB 14. The damage was done the second it was signed.
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Actually no it's bad you see, increased name recognition is leading to decreased name recognition https://twitter.com/TexasMonthly/status/1033045033052778496
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Badger of Basra posted:I think the bigger issue is probably people who don’t know you don’t need one. I think the judge said they had to do an education program but I am confident that if they did one it was lovely https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1033015149597270017 poo poo like this doesn't help. Not a single comment in 150 replies brings up the fact that requirement no longer exists. I guess we shouldn't expect the MJ reporter on the voting rights beat to know that though.
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Probably but that doesn't have anything to do with the law, because like you say, it's illegal. So prosecute those election officials breaking the law and stop telling people you need a photo ID to cast a regular ballot in Texas.
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TropicalCoke posted:yeah i have good friends who get turned away all the time in san antonio because they have a different skin color. but i can vote WITHOUT a VR card but with a drivers license that doesn't have an address the same as my VR card. Those friends should contact an attorney. The problem in 2016 is that the existing requirement wasn't thrown out until like 2 months before the election, after election official training had occurred. Also, there wasn't really any time (and certainly the will at the state level) to do an effective education campaign about the change, hence all the confusion. That judicial compromise was codified in the last session or one of the specials, and was upheld by the 5th Circuit in April I think. So it's been the law of the land for more than a year and so election officials should have had proper training about what to do. My concern is that, however well intentioned, telling people that they need a photo ID to vote a regular ballot in Texas is going to make people who don't have one not even bother to go to the polls, even though they would be able to vote. So reporters that cover voting rights beats should stop spreading misinformation. VitalSigns posted:Does getting a racist election official fired and replaced with another racist election official allow disenfranchised voters to go back in time and change the election outcome? Yes we should, and there are a ton of problems with Texas voting laws that make them discriminatory that need to be fixed. But while we're doing that we should also stop telling people they need a photo ID to vote a regular ballot in Texas. Because that's going to depress turnout. Here's a massive article about the history of the state's voter ID law, you can see the process is rife with abuse and the 2016 general was a disaster as far as compliance went. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Aug 24, 2018 |
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