Kay Bailey: Roe v. Wade Won’t Get Her Across the Potomac
As I’ve mentioned before, Kay Bailey Hutchison likes to play this little game in which she acts just wishy-washy enough to allow some people to believe she may actually be a stealth pro-choice...
View ArticleIf I Can’t Put Words in Their Mouths, I’ll At Least Put Thoughts In Their...
I just transcribed Bill White’s responses to the two abortion-related questions from the February 8th debate. Their questions were driven, I believe, in part by the GOP primary proposition #5—should...
View ArticleRick v. The Coyote
Texas governor Rick Perry shot a coyote while out for a jog with his daughter’s dog. Shot it dead. Shot it dead with his laser-sighted pistol that he carries with him when he jogs. Oh, boy. Is this...
View ArticleVoicemail Time Machine
What is she’s drunk, crazy, or about to kick off a book tour? The 3 best guesses as to why Ginni Thomas left a voicemail for Anita Hill asking her to pray about apologizing to Clarence Thomas....
View ArticleSarah Davis Is Not a Hero
The Texas House of Representatives just passed HB 15, a bill requiring women to receive a sonogram and a heavy dose of guilt in order to obtain an abortion. Several Ds voted for the bill; one R voted...
View ArticlePeremptory Challenge to Legislation
You knew, when he filed it at the end of the second special session, that he’d file it again in the third. He did not disappoint. Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr., the anti-choice Democrat from the Valley, is...
View ArticleSpeculation About Wendy Davis & the 2014 Elections
Update: Senator Davis, speaking at the National Press Club in D.C. today (8/5/13), stated that she will either run for her senate seat or for governor. She has ruled out lieutenant governor or any...
View ArticleTexas Progressive Alliance Blog Roundup June 2, 2015
The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone is dry and safe as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff reviewed how several bad bills met their end in the waning days of the legislative...
View ArticleI Think He’s Not Waiting For It To Be Legalized
Pot, that is. And by he, I mean David Simpson (R-Longview). Simpson filed a bill in the 84th session that would have removed any reference to marijuana from state criminal law (although he said he’d be...
View ArticleTexas Progressive Alliance Blog Roundup February 1, 2016
The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready to be able to ignore Iowa again as it brings you this week’s roundup. And while I didn’t get a post up about it yet, this blogger would like to remind the voters...
View ArticleDrive-By Sexist Click-Bait from the Houston Chronicle
Today’s New York Times features a graphic showing that so far, just over half of the women running for Congress this year lost their primary races. The fewer women who run, and the fewer who win, the...
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