Texans, you will start becoming a better state if you vote the current governor out!!!
So let’s do it!!!
In my misty past, in which I sat on my union’s executive board on the eve of a years-long struggle with management – who lost every court battle, and eventually the war, I would rally my colleagues with these words: We’re right; they’re wrong. Keep going! Texan activists: You’re right; they’re wrong. Keep going!!!
Nothing more appetizing than having your food server with both hands on trays with a productive cough approach your table. People get sick, Texas.
Sure, why would anyone want to California-ize their state when California’s economy is only larger than France’s? What a bunch of morans.
The argument for Paid sick should have been over a long time ago. It is a feature of modern civilized countries. But this is Texas. Good luck with that.
Meaning of course, that it is doubtful this measure will pass. The fact that there is dismal turnout for elections does not mean a subversion of democracy. Not making a decision is making a decision.
I lived in Texas once, I never want to go back.
My small, progressive city in Indiana is a fovoritet target of the lege. The state constitution is worded in such a way that they can’t strike down our legislation by naming us by name, so they carefully craft their legislation that, gosh, for some unknown reason only applies to our town. Ain’t that a thing? And if they can’t target our progressive efforts specifically, they are happy to put the smack down on the entire state. I’m fear we have our eye on the economies of Oklahoma and Kansas and are asking “How can we get some of that?”
“One challenge activists are confronting: Texas’ dismally low levels of voter registration and turnout.”
An absolute,constant source of aggravation for me. It is worse than dismal in local elections.
10 states have paid sick leave acts. It is not just a TX problem.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/paid-sick-leave.aspx
“San Antonio gathered some 144,000 signatures”
They got ours. They were canvasing the park. Have to be careful though, they might have gotten a couple of the ducks.
IMO the powers that be in TX really really really want to have low voter turn out.
In February, Austin’s city council passed an ordinance requiring businesses to provide paid sick leave.
In a sane world, any political party that opposed something so obviously beneficial to its base would be voted out post haste. Of course, I’d have expected the same for minimum wage.
It’s issues like these that demonstrate the raw effectiveness of the rightwing propaganda machine - the vehicle that allows the GOP to oppose relatively simple policies that provide clear benefits to nearly all of its base voters. Not a new observation, I know; simply a new illustration of it.
Good lucky Texas cities, I hope you do better than Missouri citizen petitions and referendums.
Missourians votes over a decade ago against Right to Work, and ever since the state legislature has tried to get around it.
St. Louis City voted to increase minimum wage to $15 an hour, the state legislature undid it.
St. Louis City and Kansas City have an additional income tax on people who work in the city whether they live in the city or not. State legislature has been trying to over turn this since Rex Sinquefield, MO’s own billionaire, came back to the state and started meddling in politics. It’s his personal bete noire.
And when did Republicans stop using “local control is the best control of local affairs”?
@tena get out your cattle prod and get these folks to the polls. Remind them that Texas is the state of Ann Richards, Barabra Jordan and Molly Ivins (all women hmmmm:) ) and not just the disgraces to my gender Perry and Abbott.
Send this to Colin Kaepernick…and roger goodell
Actually, as of May, it’s the fifth largest economy, passing the United Kingdom.
When the courts stopped letting them say it as a cover for segregation and creationism and other forms of discrimination. Local control, like states rights, is only OK (according to republicans) if you use it to step on people.
Just BTW, although voter registration in texas is low, efforts like this are just the kind of thing that could increase those numbers.
Please tell you us purposely spelled it “morans” rather than “morons”.
It’s a tradition.
