A popular topic lately among the chattering class in recent days seems to be that Texas women -- more specifically, suburban Texas women -- might have some role to play in Wendy Davis' political future.
Ignore Dr. Murray's contention that Chris Bell got 43.3 percent of the 2006 vote. (He gets the rest correct and I chalk that error up to him needing another intern for fact-checking.) I just thought I had cleared up this deal a couple of months ago.
Update: it has been pointed out to me that by "major party vote", Dr. Murray accurately pushed up Bell's tally from 29.79% to the 43.3 he cites in the above link. In other words, he excluded everybody who voted for Kinky Friedman and Carole Strayhorn in 2006 and then called the remainder whole.
I don't believe anyone -- no matter their pedigree -- can simply delegitimize the ballots of over 1.3 million Texans in order to reinforce a premise.
This is what is meant by the adage 'figures don't lie, but liars can figure'. It is partisan and duopolistic at best -- and duplicitous and disingenuous at worst -- to manipulate data to reach your desired conclusion. And it strains credibility to its breaking point for any reasonable person to call that 'accurate'.
It's helpful that Republicans -- from "Too Stupid" Robbie Cooper (I have been following this douchebag for years, so that you didn't have to) and "Retard Barbie" Jeff Rutledge all the way to Dave Carney and Greg Abbott himself -- keep pounding home the misogyny. Conservo-scumbags Tweeting and blogging aren't ever going to be as influential as the experiences of exurban and rural Texas women like these, however. This is what's actually helping turn the worm faster.
Shamed by her doctor because she had a hickey. That's not The Onion, but it should be.
If we could just make Republicans understand that birth control provided to women prevents as many as 71% of all abortions, we might make some progress. Then we could say, "If you cut family planning clinics out of the state budget, you will have more abortions", and perhaps that fact would start to make some moral sense to the pro-birth crowd.
Nah; these are Republicans and this is logic. Who am I kidding?
As Ana Kasparian says, "If you vote Republican, and you have a vagina, you are a moron." That is sadly and particularly true in Texas. But as we wait for Wendy Davis to decide to run for governor, that message is already being received -- and understood -- by women everywhere.
Update: The waiting will be over on October 3rd.
Ignore Dr. Murray's contention that Chris Bell got 43.3 percent of the 2006 vote. (He gets the rest correct and I chalk that error up to him needing another intern for fact-checking.) I just thought I had cleared up this deal a couple of months ago.
Update: it has been pointed out to me that by "major party vote", Dr. Murray accurately pushed up Bell's tally from 29.79% to the 43.3 he cites in the above link. In other words, he excluded everybody who voted for Kinky Friedman and Carole Strayhorn in 2006 and then called the remainder whole.
I don't believe anyone -- no matter their pedigree -- can simply delegitimize the ballots of over 1.3 million Texans in order to reinforce a premise.
This is what is meant by the adage 'figures don't lie, but liars can figure'. It is partisan and duopolistic at best -- and duplicitous and disingenuous at worst -- to manipulate data to reach your desired conclusion. And it strains credibility to its breaking point for any reasonable person to call that 'accurate'.
It's helpful that Republicans -- from "Too Stupid" Robbie Cooper (I have been following this douchebag for years, so that you didn't have to) and "Retard Barbie" Jeff Rutledge all the way to Dave Carney and Greg Abbott himself -- keep pounding home the misogyny. Conservo-scumbags Tweeting and blogging aren't ever going to be as influential as the experiences of exurban and rural Texas women like these, however. This is what's actually helping turn the worm faster.
A Texas woman who was shamed by her doctor for having a hickey and wanting birth control says she is now forced to drive four hours to a Planned Parenthood clinic for health care due to the state’s new anti-abortion laws.
Athena Mason told KUT that her first visit to the doctor as a student at Texas A&M was awkward.
“I had a hickey and the doctor was just like, you shouldn’t be doing that,” she recalled. “I’m like, ‘It’s a hickey, it’s nothing major.’ But I got a big lecture. [He said] my boyfriend was abusive and all of these things. And then I asked for birth control. I did not hear the end of that. So I said never mind, I’ll go somewhere else.”
Mason started using the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan. But that facility is one of four women’s health service providers that closed in August after the state passed new regulations restricting abortions.
So Mason now drives four hours to the Planned Parenthood clinic in Austin for health care.
Shamed by her doctor because she had a hickey. That's not The Onion, but it should be.
If we could just make Republicans understand that birth control provided to women prevents as many as 71% of all abortions, we might make some progress. Then we could say, "If you cut family planning clinics out of the state budget, you will have more abortions", and perhaps that fact would start to make some moral sense to the pro-birth crowd.
Nah; these are Republicans and this is logic. Who am I kidding?
As Ana Kasparian says, "If you vote Republican, and you have a vagina, you are a moron." That is sadly and particularly true in Texas. But as we wait for Wendy Davis to decide to run for governor, that message is already being received -- and understood -- by women everywhere.
Update: The waiting will be over on October 3rd.
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