"Affluenza" sentence vs. sentence for 14 y.o. black teen for participating in a robbery

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40. Manny, its worse than you think. I live in Tea Central, Texas. Coffee will not help......

Like Cornyn isn't RW enough, he has a Tea challenger. The Teapublican has a Teabilly challenge. So I anticipate a second Ted Cruz in the Senate.

We are so gerrymanded I do not believe that confidence will ever be restored in participatory democracy in Texas. Only 11% of registered voters re-elected Rick Perry.

So you understand how bad it is, I am a Republican who will be voting an almost straight Democratic ticket again, as I have since voted for Clinton in his second term. The problem is only made worse by how many offices are Tea Party with no Democrats running against them.

Conservatives don't have to run and they are the minority. All they had to do was generate a general feeling the uselessness of government to suppress the vote. And their voters are fired up on "getting our country back". They've caused a lot of us main-streamers to to passively give up.

So as well as Democrats I vote for, the occasional genuine GOP - occasional - I vote a lot of "none of the above".

Maybe the coffee might work - bump with a bit of bourbon first.

By the way - what do you make of an option on the ballot for "none of the above"? If nota wins the election is reheld or if none of the candidates get 51%, a runoff is held?