If demographics trends in Texas remain as they're currently projected and if Mexican Americans continue to vote they way they do, they can totally take Texas in the next decade (projections I read suggests it should become competitive around 2020, though some argue a strong presidential candidate can put it in play as early as 2016, but I'm not sure if I'm buying it).
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TX State Senator leads 11 hour filibuster that successfully beats anti-abortion bill
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"East Texas" has a specific meaning. Dallas, Austin, Houston, etc. are not in East Texas.
If you split Texas evenly in half, with one being east and the other being west, then the clinics would be in east Texas. However the term East Texas applies to a distinct area of Texas and doesn't include everything east of that hypothetical divider.
It means exactly what he said. Austin and Houston are not considered "East Texas"
Devolution
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Women my age really need to wake up to the fact that we had more reproductive rights and available clinics in the 70s. =/. The fucking 70s, that's over 30 years ago now.
Squirrel Killer
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Actually, I should say that Sen Watson is appealing the ruling that the third warning ends Sen Davis' holding of the floor, and he is now raising a point of order that the new chair improperly recognized the motion to table.
Black Mamba
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Since she violated the third PoO and the appeal obviously won't be won in the end, shouldn't she just sit down anyway? lol.
Or does that count as submitting or something?
The chamber still has to vote to end her filibuster BTW. We're not even there yet. 1 hour to go.
Or does that count as submitting or something?
The chamber still has to vote to end her filibuster BTW. We're not even there yet. 1 hour to go.
Escape Goat
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I'm not sure the distinction is germane. I motion that we table this matter.
I object to your motion on the grounds that you did not have the floor.
Neither do I. She's been squirrely (sorry for pun...) the whole episode.
The names by which Texans break down the state into regions are somewhat nonsensical. East Texas has a very specific meaning in Texan parlance. It only refers to that strip of land east of Dallas and Houston. It's the most religious and conservative part of the state, with way more ties to the Old South than the rest of Texas, so it would be really weird if it hosted all of the state's abortion clinics. For more madness, Dallas is considered North Texas, while the actual northernmost part of the state is just called the Panhandle.
It will happen in time. Certainly within our lifetime.
Also, I loved my visit to that building when I was in Austin last November. Great little space and lots to see. They didn't let us sit in the chairs though even though the Senate wasn't in session
It really is a lovely building.
A Human Becoming
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I want to appeal your motion to table this matter.
They don't threaten to do it, they just do it automatically. In the Senate, it takes 60 votes to end debate, so unless the bill has 60 votes, there isn't much reason to do a talking filibuster since the bill can never get to the floor.
perfectchaos007
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Generally speaking, East Texas culture goes from the Louisiana border to I-45 almost uniformly.
that was before the brotherly leader and guide of the revolution ronald reagan became president.
Gentleman Jack
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I suspect it would 'unravel the stack' so to speak. The debate is nested on whether or not the motion to appeal the final PoO violation could be brought to the entire voting body, opening it up for more unlimited debate (senate rules), so if she sits it would be like yielding the floor, rendering further debate, appeals and Points of Order moot, giving the Repubs the win.
I saw an interesting statistic not too long ago that high risk women were becoming less and less likely to seek the necessary reproductive health care they needed with their primary reason for the lack of regular health visits being the difficulty in finding low cost options. It's a strange world we live in.
jamesinclair
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They got theirs, fuck everyone else.
If Watson's motion to debate whether she actually went off topic succeeds, the filibuster could continue. She won't give up until it's absolutely over.
Escape Goat
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am i supposed to like or dislike it? I can't decide.
I'd pay 20 bucks to see the look on old man Enron's face when Texas turns blue. There'll be so much old man salt.
Unknown Soldier
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Time for shit to get real?!?!
speculawyer
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Yes, that is the beautiful thing about it. A bunch of obstinate far-right Texan GOPers trying to ban abortion will become the nation-wide face of the GOP. That is not going to help the GOP nationally.
Well the GOP seems quite set on that by forcing a lot of unintentional "anchor babies" to be born there.
Black Mamba
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This guy found some rule to allow it, but he is ignoring that he isn't the chair allowed to do it I thought.
GOP trying their hardest and they might win...
GOP trying their hardest and they might win...
I'll probably be dead by then, much to your delight i'm sure.
perfectchaos007
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The young liberal hippies in the 60's who tried to reform the government is the very generation currently in office screwing our country. I want to believe OUR generation will make the change once we fill a majority of the political positions, but nothing is guaranteed. We're all susceptible to back tracking to conservative values when we hit that age.
ConfusingJazz
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Nah, then you include Houston and DFW metro areas. That's way too far west.
phosphor112
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Waaait whut the fuck is he saying?
Really?
Really?
statham
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IT is.
jamesinclair
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Who the fuck writes these rules.
Yup.
Devolution
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Well no, I'm 26, so women my age "haven't got theirs" as in they need TO FUCKING WAKE UP AND VOTE.
Indeed. But I feel like people think nothing can backslide and they don't even have to fight to keep the status quo. Reproductive rights are a huge example of how things don't get better. You can't assume certain rights are guaranteed.
helloresolven
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Haha, I love his tentativeness in answering that.
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