Discussion: GOPer Who Made Muslims Renounce Terrorism Loses Primary By 118 Votes

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This is kind of surprising. I had thought, this being TX, all this is going to be a major plus for her career.

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How many votes were cast? 119?

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She’ll land on her feet.

She’ll be doing community outreach for the RNC.

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This being Texas, perhaps her replacement is even further to the right?

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what’s the freakin total vote count… hell, even the texass paper doesn’t include it.
and of course her name is ‘white’…

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They are proud of their bigotry, their hate, and their incomparably high levels of political incompetence. This is what has become of Republican Party politics in these United States.

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She announced her plan to request a recount “after prayers,” from which I infer she got a tip-off concerning a miscount from Jesus.

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White is a fool, a damned fool.

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Too Bad So Sad!
But I can’t imagine her rival will be any better.

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She’s headed to Travis County.

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May this be the first of many who are kicked to the curb for their extremism.

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“After prayer and conversations with my team and supporters we have decided to request a recount of the ballots cast in House District 55. We are at peace regardless of the results,” White wrote on Facebook. “There were 19,060 votes cast and current returns show us coming short by only 118 votes. Ensuring fairness and accuracy with this election is essential for our community.”

And this:
http://www.tdtnews.com/news/article_569ecd22-e03f-11e5-91ee-a7373f751e8d.html

…Shine received 9,589 votes to White’s 9,471

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Gotta be voter fraud!!

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Does anyone know the background of the person she lost to? Is it someone sane, or someone who thinks that even letting muslims into your office is too liberal?

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This was just between two Republicans. No Democrat in the race, so he won the seat. But it seems like Shine was to the left of White.

http://shineforstaterep.com/

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Ah, the Texas lege - she’s relatively sane compared to some of them. This is why we only let them meet every other year.

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A bigot, Islamophobic, homophobic, hate filled, bitter, gun nuzzler, batshitcrazy …and her name is WHITE!

My gawwd’! HOW could she lose in Texas?

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unlikely that she would learn but sometimes the terrorism that gets renounced isn’t the terrorism one expects to be renounced…

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That’s my question. Great that she lost… but to whom?