[Magdalen] Please help me understand

[Jay Weigel]

I am skeptical, Eleanor. With the current voter-suppression laws and the
gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court, plus the outright
election-buying by the Koch Empire, I don't see it happening. Not in Texas
and not in a lot of other places, and certainly not in my lifetime.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Grace.
>
> Though I am now in a much more congenial state for my politics
> (Massachusetts), there's also the "you can take the girl out of Texas, you
> can't take the Texas out of the girl."
>
> Having been active in Texas politics, I know that in the past, in my
> lifetime, there have been some wonderful politicians:  Sen. Ralph
> Yarborough, Gov. Ann Richards, State Rep and Roe v. Wade advocate Sarah
> Weddington, even Lyndon Johnson.
>
> Texas is now a majority-minority state:  Latinos, blacks and Asians are a
> majority.  But voter apathy is very high, not to mention gerrymandering and
> voter suppression.  Texas could and probably will become a purple state
> before long.
>
> Much that goes on there just infuriates me.  But there are swings in
> politics and culture, and I think with the right candidates and some strong
> voter education and get out the vote efforts, it will change.
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, Jay, but would he need a US passport?
> >
> > But hey, out of respect for our Texas sibs here, let's be clear that
> we're
> > not talking about all Texans! I mean, there's been plenty of stupidity
> > carried out in the name of well, I don't know what, by Virginians (Think
> > requiring transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions.), by
> > Alabama governors, by other idiotic groups.
> > Let's not get on our high horse and think we are better than those
> Texans!
> >
> > > On Feb 10, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Rick, I said we'd offer you amnesty and immediate citizenship...... :-)
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> In a message dated 2/10/2015 12:29:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > >> ricklmashburn at gmail.com writes:
> > >>
> > >> Hey...>>>
> > >>
> > >> I've lived all my life in the land of the Lutherans and Roman
> > Catholics,
> > >> (or completely out of the USA in Germany) and I'm curious what  it's
> > >> like to live in the Bible Belt where there seems to be such a desire
> to
> > >> impose one's religious tenets on others.
> > >>
> > >> Not that Lutherans and Catholics don't get involved in similar
> > pursuits,
> > >> but it doesn't seem to be so all pervasive as it is in the Bible
> Belt.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> David Strang - In Luzerne County Pennsylvania which is the only
> county
> > >>                      in  the USA with a Slavic majority, and where the
> > >> overwhelming
> > >>                       population is Roman Catholic.
> > >>
> >
>