Sunday, September 29, 2019

Don't Mess With Texas


I post this because it's a beautiful picture of our State Capitol (all Texas Granite!), and because it prompted this tweet in reply:
Please note in future that when you see this, the person who said it, no matter how nice and well-intentioned they may be, does not know his ass from a hole in the ground.  

In 2018 Houston/Harris County (just as Austin is, basically, Travis County) swept out every GOP elected judge in the county and replaced the whole kit 'n' kaboodle with African-American women who were Democrats (of course).  And replaced the highest county official with a Democrat, even though the GOP official was widely admired and the Democrat had no experience to speak of (she's doing a fine job, btw).  And turned out a GOP incumbent of long standing in a U.S. House district.  Yes, we are where Ted Cruz lives when he's in Texas.

But Alex Jones lives in Austin.

And Harris County just authorized even more funding for the District Attorney to go after polluters, following the huge refinery fire we had here recently.

Please adjust your understanding of Texas politics accordingly.  All of the major cities of Texas are blue, now.  They all went for Clinton in 2016.  A reasonable effort by Democrats (especially if Beto is the V.P. candidate) could easily tip Texas in 2020.  It ain't just Austin.  (And "Keep Austin Weird" was meant to promote local business in Austin, just as "Don't Mess With Texas" is still an anti-litter campaign. Nothin wrong with either slogan, just don't take 'em the wrong way.  And the Legs passed a number of laws declaring cities in Texas couldn't do things they had been doing that the GOP Lege didn't like.  Most of the cities directly affected were NOT the "People's Republic of Travis County."  And just like no native of San Francisco calls it "Frisco," nobody in Texas says that of Austin.)
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