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NoPasaran

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4. And they'll spend more on a second special

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 26, 2013, 02:06 AM

Jun 2013

To take up the highway and juvenile justice bills which could have been passed with Democratic support but Dewhurst and the Teahadists were insistent on being total dickheads instead.

And yesterday's gutting of the VRA seems to have made the redistricting bill moot because apparently now the original districts which failed pre-clearence can be implemented.

When Molly Ivins said that Texas was the national laboratory for bad government she was being kind.

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