PDittie
PDittie's JournalJust for the record
I know Sarah personally (we aren't friends). Two years ago she was the campaign manager for a Green who ran for Houston city Council. Unless she has had a dramatic change of heart very recently, she isn't a Democrat.
She is however exactly what we need more of in Austin and Washington. I just hope she can be persuaded to stay in Texas and run for office (in her original testimony video, she indicated she would be moving to New York at the end of the summer).
I believe that it has been established that abstinence education
does not work, particularly so in Texas, which has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation.
So this reads like a cute little snarky something-or-other until you realize that Texas is exporting abortion restriction legislation to other states across the country (Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, etc. and that's just this past week).
If you think W Bush (and not Ralph Nader) is how we got started down this slippery slope, then it behooves you to also consider that if Texas goes blue, the Republican party nationally is history. For a generation or two, maybe longer if the Dems don't fuck it up.
Translation: Democrats, but certainly Texas Democrats, need more people of color, more female, more poverty-stricken, and more younger people voting. Snarking on Texas women, primarily those who are brown, young, and poor -- though they won't ever read it, and as light-hearted as it seems -- isn't helping make that happen.
Wu is one of the fast-rising Democratic freshmen
in the Houston delegation of the Texas House. He married a local TV reporter; they're expecting a child shortly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/fashion/weddings/miya-shay-gene-wu-weddings.html
He's also the busiest Twitterer in the Texas Lege.
https://twitter.com/GeneforTexas
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