tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post3691614063347984048..comments2024-03-15T03:20:38.106-05:00Comments on Brains and Eggs: Greg Abbott's Bad News of the WeekPDiddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-75319348909783352382014-05-22T17:08:39.471-05:002014-05-22T17:08:39.471-05:00I read the following today:
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UPDATE: After re...I read the following today:<br />* * *<br />UPDATE: After receiving lots of media coverage and yet another ride to the Dept. of Public Safety, the state of Texas has finally found a way to allow Barber a Photo ID for voting this year. As reported by the Waco Trib...<br /><br />Despite the lack of a birth certificate, the state was able to verify Barber’s citizenship by finding her birthday in a U.S. census taken in the 1940s, [Barber's son, Jimmy] Denton said. She also showed her Social Security card, two utility bills and her Medicare card.<br /><br />Now, if we can just get national media coverage for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of registered voters who still don't have the requisite Photo ID now needed to vote under the TX Republicans' law. Or, as in the case with the Republican nominee for Governor in Arkansas during Tuesday's primary, perhaps we can just hire each one of those otherwise legal voters a staffer to take care of the problem...Charles Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13327538374957906718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-44897426660058087542014-05-22T09:02:10.916-05:002014-05-22T09:02:10.916-05:00The Wyly bros? Familiar with them from Dallas days...The Wyly bros? Familiar with them from Dallas days and their self-greenwashing with Green Mountain Energy. There's a group called Downwinders at Risk, fighting the air pollution of the big Midlothian cement plants. Green Mountain would make a nominal donation to them for every new account they could get to transfer from TXU. I told them they were playing with greenwashing devils and they didn't listen.<br /><br />Plus their graphics booklet Sam and son Andrew brought out last year, "Texas Got It Right," made me want to barf.<br /><br />===<br /><br />I had seen the Waco story already, of course, being in this area. SOL and nobody in Abbott's office cares. Ridiculous.<br /><br />===<br /><br />That said, on the debates? You've prolly read me already; I'd like more than 2, but asking for the first one in July sounds like desperation.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.com