Where to watch:
>>Streaming HERE tonight at 6pm CT.<<
http://www.foxsanantonio.com/news/features/vote/townhall/#.VBy2cvldUjY
What's at stake for Democrats and Liberals:
Women's rights, gay marriage, education, minimum wage, immigration reform, the environment, possibly even the universe all on the line.
What's at stake for Republicans and Conservatives:
Business, payday loan companies, Christian values, guns, Big Guv'ment meddling in our affairs, state rights, taxes, EPA killing jobs, the Confederacy, etc.
WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Wendy Davis- Democratic Party.
Views: Center Left-wing to Center
Wendy Davis became a household name in June 2013 when she staged a 11-hour filibuster to protect abortion rights in Texas.
All you need to know is in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3lRGs-_AA
Greg Abbott - Republican Party
Views: Right-wing to Extreme Right-wing
Why Greg Abbott may make you miss the current Texas governor Rick Perry:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/greg-abbott-the-next-rick-perry
More than a few people will hail the departure of Perry, a politician who embraced crony capitalism, supported criminalizing sodomy, crushed abortion rights, and almost certainly allowed an innocent man die. That's about right. But in the hyperlitigious Abbott, Texas Republicans have a replacement who may just do the impossible—make progressives miss Rick Perry.
Abbott has sued the Environmental Protection Agency 17 times over air quality standards and greenhouse gas emissions. (He believes carbon dioxide can't be a pollutant because it is emitted by humans, and after experiencing freezing temperatures in Midland, he once tweeted, "Whatever happened to global warming?" It was January.)
He challenged the Department of Health and Human Services four times: over funding that was attached to abortion reimbursements, for mandating that all employers provide access to contraception, over the Affordable Care Act, and for the taxation scheme in the 2003 Medicare expansion.
He twice sued US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice's rejection of the state's voter ID law and redistricting plans. (After the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, Abbott announced that Texas' voter ID law would go into effect immediately.)
He sued the Department of Education over a delay in the disbursement of $830 million in federal education funds.
He sued the Department of the Interior three times: over the Obama administration's moratorium on offshore drilling after the Deepwater Horizon spill, the creation of a new national wildlife refuge on the Upper Neches River, and a proposed casino on the Kickapoo Indian reservation. He took the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to court over reporting requirements for pipeline companies.
Abbott's biggest legacy in Washington may be the Republican who has done the most to shake it up in Obama's second term—Sen. Ted Cruz, whose political career Abbott helped launch a decade ago when he hired Cruz to be the state's first solicitor general. Cruz won election to the Senate last fall largely on the strength of his anti-Washington record as a solicitor general. But his cases were really Abbott's cases, a fact Cruz's opponents sought to use against him during the campaign.
Abbott's anti-Washington record has been good for his profile, but it hasn't done much for Texas. He has won just 4 of those 27 cases outright (in a handful of other cases he dropped the suit after the circumstances changed), and the Associated Press calculated that his losing battles had cost the state $2.8 million. Which brings us to the great irony of
his career. When Abbott left the Texas Supreme Court to run for attorney general in 2002, Abbott's main critique of his opponent, then-Austin mayor and former trial lawyer Kirk Watson, was a familiar one. You guessed it—frivolous lawsuits.
His supporters:
Ted Nugent: "Obama as a communist-raised,
communist-educated, communist-nurtured, subhuman mongrel."
Greg Abbott seen at a
Women's Health press conference discussing his plan for women's health:
Forgive me for the lackluster OP but I'm off to the debate myself!
