North Texas Republican group boycotts Austin

[sonias]

Austin Business Journal 5/18/10
North Texas Republican group boycotts Austin
A Dallas-Ft. Worth area political group has boycotted the city of Austin in response to local officials cutting ties with Arizona.

The Hood County Republican Party, a county about 30 miles southwest of the Ft. Worth, reportedly released a statement saying the group would stop doing business with Austin. It is the second to make such a statement after the Burleson Tea Party said it is encouraging Texas visitors to skip Austin.

Austin city council members approved a resolution May 13 baring employees from expensing trips to Arizona after the state passed a law opponents have criticized as promoting racial profiling and discrimination

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Good, please stay away from Austin you North Texas Republicans - we like to keep our city clean! :evilgrin:

[sui generis]

1. aw shucks.

little backwater backwoods Texas country hicks in Hood county forgot that all the big cities in Texas have been voting blue for quite a while . . . . it's only a red state out in the boonies where all the hard haired home schoolerin babtists live, and they don't travel outside their counties anyway.

Agreed, Austin doesn't want to have process your sewage, so please if you must pass through on the way to Mexico to pick up cheap whores and affordable medicine for your grandmas, please don't even slow down.

[sonias]

2. Yep the ten bucks that they might spend will hardly cripple us

Fine by me if we make this a "tea bagger" free zone.
:fistbump:

Oh and if they can make sure any North Texas Republican Representatives don't come to Austin for the Texas Legislative session in 2011 - even better!

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Happy Vision of Boycotting R's Forting Up in Williamson or Bell Counties

I'm having a happy vision of some of the Repugs extending their boycott into the legislative session. Could you imagine what could happen if a bunch of them decided to take lodgings in Williamson or Bell Counties--and then being stuck in a morning traffic jam when their pet right-wing bills come up for votes?

:evilgrin:

:dem:

[sonias]

5. I love it!

Oh please, please make it so.

:applause::applause:

[Vogon_Glory]

7. From our keyboards to God's computer screen, Amen! (eom)

[WolverineDG]

4. "Hood" County

:spray: :rofl:

You just can't make this stuff up, can you?

dg

[sonias]

6. No you can't!

Handbook of Texas - Hood County
HOOD COUNTY
(snip)
Hood County was formed in November 1866 by an act of the Eleventh Texas Legislature. The area had been within the Municipality of San Felipe de Austin as early as 1823 and the Municipality of Viesca in 1834. After Texas became a republic, the area now known as Hood County had, at one time or another, been part of Robertson, Navarro, McLennan, Johnson, and Erath counties. The county was named after Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood of the Confederate Army.

The county used to vote Democratic - when the south was of course Dixiecratic Dems.

Hood County, TX Census Bureau
Hood County is 86.7% white not counting Latinos.

SOS Election History
And voted 77% for McCain.

Nope I don't think the Republican residents of Hood County would mingle well with the local residents of Austin. :P

[onestepforward]

8. Nice bonus for Austin!

Congratulations!
:toast:

[sonias]

9. Yea us!

We've managed to offend a couple of hundred nut bags in Hood County. Too bad! :P