Friday, December 25, 2009
Musings About Hotze
hotze aims for moving targets... Click on the previous link to read about how this arch conservative is targeting Democrats that are too liberal. Steven Hotze is sending out e-mails to recruit conservative Republicans. (Conservative is a misnomer.) I can quote this blog article, by John Cobarruvius and Martha Griffin, as saying that the Democrats that are endorsed by this coalition of the religious right all have the following points in common:
* anti-gay
* anti-affirmative action
* anti-choice
* anti-public education
The Democrats endorsed by Hotze are old-school Blue Dog Democrats. Not the kind you take home to mother, not the kind with ideals. They don't believe in much of anything other than getting elected. Texas needs leadership with vision now more than ever.
Steven M. Hotze, M.D., president of Conservative Republicans of Texas, personifies what is the worst in Texas politics today. Their agenda is one of destroying the results of other people's hard work: making Texas more livable for all of us. These are the politics of destruction.
The Conservative Republicans of Texas are inserting themselves into the Houston Runoff election in December, the runoff election between Costello and Derr, and future statewide races. Their goal is to pick off the weaker candidates like an oportunistic gazel.
The success of Annise Parker is like blood in the water for the hungry sharks. Lukily, Annise is an avid swimmer. Annise is swimming against the current. But the tide of politics is changing in Texas.
Read this Texas Monthly Blog about The Hotze Offensive.
Like the moon's effect on the oceans, the antipathy for Obama can be felt here in Texas. It is a downward tug for an exhausted swimmer to fight against. There is a politics that feeds on negative energy. And it is swirling around like Ike near Galveston.
* anti-gay
* anti-affirmative action
* anti-choice
* anti-public education
The Democrats endorsed by Hotze are old-school Blue Dog Democrats. Not the kind you take home to mother, not the kind with ideals. They don't believe in much of anything other than getting elected. Texas needs leadership with vision now more than ever.
Steven M. Hotze, M.D., president of Conservative Republicans of Texas, personifies what is the worst in Texas politics today. Their agenda is one of destroying the results of other people's hard work: making Texas more livable for all of us. These are the politics of destruction.
The Conservative Republicans of Texas are inserting themselves into the Houston Runoff election in December, the runoff election between Costello and Derr, and future statewide races. Their goal is to pick off the weaker candidates like an oportunistic gazel.
The success of Annise Parker is like blood in the water for the hungry sharks. Lukily, Annise is an avid swimmer. Annise is swimming against the current. But the tide of politics is changing in Texas.
Read this Texas Monthly Blog about The Hotze Offensive.
Like the moon's effect on the oceans, the antipathy for Obama can be felt here in Texas. It is a downward tug for an exhausted swimmer to fight against. There is a politics that feeds on negative energy. And it is swirling around like Ike near Galveston.
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Tea Party
"Indeed, the rightward tilt of the state's GOP electorate permitted another Tea Party insurgent to mount a respectable run without serving as a spoiler to Perry's similarly themed campaign. Debra Medina, a darling of the far right, recently made headlines for questioning the government's involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but came in with about the same 16 percent showing that polls registered prior to her gaffe. -http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100304/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1213
The rightward slant of the Republican party in Texas portends ill for its citizens and residents alike. A state already gerrymandered to the Republican's advantage, allowing a comfortable margin for incompetence, is being pulled toward a radical part of the political spectrum.
The Tea Party rejects any workable form of federalism where the Federal government plays a necessarily central role in funding large projects, such as roads and dams, and provides funding for necessary functions, such as public education.
"But by the time Republican voters went to the polls here in a primary on Tuesday, the political ground had shifted under Senator Hutchison, who lost in a three-way race to Mr. Perry." -link to NY Times Article.
The Tea Party candidates posit themselves as outsiders. But, Rick Perry has been governor for over 10 years.
http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/
If you really want change, elect someone who hasn't been governor for 10 years. Bill White handily beat several other Democratic challengers, and, Bill White doesn't have to hide under a false agenda.
The Tea Party is a mis-informed tax revolt married to a wild-eyed dream of secession. All States require federal money to complete big projects because this is the tax money not hijacked by regional petty thievery, and, back-stabbing. It provides the wealth to the communities too poor to educate their own children or pave their own streets. And it provides a necessary counterweight to local lapses in judgment.
Don't leave the future of Texas in the hands of a movement that would send us back into the Dark Ages; where a decent education is a luxury, and a decent life is a far-off dream. This is the movement that would deny you your unemployment benefits. In fact, Governor Perry already has.
The rightward slant of the Republican party in Texas portends ill for its citizens and residents alike. A state already gerrymandered to the Republican's advantage, allowing a comfortable margin for incompetence, is being pulled toward a radical part of the political spectrum.
The Tea Party rejects any workable form of federalism where the Federal government plays a necessarily central role in funding large projects, such as roads and dams, and provides funding for necessary functions, such as public education.
"But by the time Republican voters went to the polls here in a primary on Tuesday, the political ground had shifted under Senator Hutchison, who lost in a three-way race to Mr. Perry." -link to NY Times Article.
The Tea Party candidates posit themselves as outsiders. But, Rick Perry has been governor for over 10 years.
http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/
If you really want change, elect someone who hasn't been governor for 10 years. Bill White handily beat several other Democratic challengers, and, Bill White doesn't have to hide under a false agenda.
The Tea Party is a mis-informed tax revolt married to a wild-eyed dream of secession. All States require federal money to complete big projects because this is the tax money not hijacked by regional petty thievery, and, back-stabbing. It provides the wealth to the communities too poor to educate their own children or pave their own streets. And it provides a necessary counterweight to local lapses in judgment.
Don't leave the future of Texas in the hands of a movement that would send us back into the Dark Ages; where a decent education is a luxury, and a decent life is a far-off dream. This is the movement that would deny you your unemployment benefits. In fact, Governor Perry already has.
Capitol Building -Austin
State Capitol Complex:
11th and Congress.
Parking at the intersection's southeast Corner, and 1500 block of Congress.
Larger than any other state capitol.
11th and Congress.
Parking at the intersection's southeast Corner, and 1500 block of Congress.
Larger than any other state capitol.
Texas Employment Law
"Texas employment law does NOT prohibit workplace discrimination and/or termination based upon sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status." -Equality Texas
"The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), federal legislation that would add sexual orientation as a protected class against discrimination, has been proposed but failed in the past few years. But it is expected that President Obama and the a stronger Democratic majority in Congress will pass and enact the law in 2009." -HRHero.com
http://www.hrhero.com/topics/sex_discrimination.html
"The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), federal legislation that would add sexual orientation as a protected class against discrimination, has been proposed but failed in the past few years. But it is expected that President Obama and the a stronger Democratic majority in Congress will pass and enact the law in 2009." -HRHero.com
http://www.hrhero.com/topics/sex_discrimination.html
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