Thursday, March 25, 2010

Scenes from the SD-17 convention



The Mayde Creek high school NROTC color guard presents the colors.



Two of the over 240 registered delegates.



Keynote speaker (and next governor of Texas) Bill White
addresses the convention.



Felicity Pereyra conducts VAN training.


White, 2006 gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell, and HD-134 Rep. Ellen Cohen in a (not-quite-private) moment.

Monday, March 22, 2010

The freedom to be screwed

Randy Noogie-Booger

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) has come forward and admitted that he was the one who yelled "baby killer" during the House debate on the health care bill last night.

In his statement, Neugeubauer said that he meant to refer to the bill as "a baby killer," not Stupak himself. That said, he has apologized to Stupak.

Neugebauer was first elected to Congress in a spring 2003 special election, after having previously worked in real estate and served on the Lubbock city council. In 2004, after the controversial mid-decade redistricting engineered by Tom DeLay, Neugebauer defeated long-time Blue Dog Democratic Rep. Charlie Stenholm by 58%-40% in a reconfigured district.

It should be noted that in addition to the "baby killer" outburst, Neugebauer is also a sponsor of the so-called "Birther Bill," introduced by Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), to require presidential candidates "to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution."

Neugebauer's district is solidly Republican, having voted 72%-27% for John McCain in 2008, and 77%-22% for George W. Bush in 2004. Neugebauer was re-elected with 72% of the vote in 2008.

Obviously it's not just that Noogie-Booger is a fool, it's also the people in West Texas who keep electing him. More from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (courtesy Lubbock Left, who also shares the link to the TX-19th's Democratic challenger, Andy Wilson). I lived for a few years in this district; it's all wide open spaces and cotton fields beyond Lubbock. Farmers. Ranchers.

You know why they call it God's country? Because nobody else wants to live there.

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