#TIMESTAMPGATE: After A Crazy Night, This Photograph Helped Kill A Controversial Texas Abortion Bill

[Hissyspit]

http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-abortion-bill-timestampgate-2013-6

#TIMESTAMPGATE: After A Crazy Night, This Photograph Helped Kill A Controversial Texas Abortion Bill

JOE WEISENTHAL

It was a crazy night in Texas politics that ended just before 4 AM Central Time, with a controversial abortion bill (that would have shut down the majority of Texas clinics) getting killed at the last minute.

Carolyn Jones at The Texas Observer has a great writeup of what went down, but it was basically this.

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That's when pro-choice activists in the chamber started shouting, and created enough chaos so that the state Senate couldn't vote by midnight, which was the end of the legislative session.. The final vote to pass the bill happened just after midnight at 12:03.

However, Republicans claimed that the vote got in before midnight.

According to Jones, Republicans had to admit that that they were a few minutes late on the bill, when Texas State Senator Juan Chuy Hinojosa tweeted this photo showing that the initial readout of the vote indicated it happened on June 26, but that a subsequent readout had been changed, showing June 25.

The initial time stamp on the Capitol website and on Senate documents placed the vote at 12:02 or 12:03 on June 26. But then someone mysteriously changed the time stamp to make it appear SB 5 passed before the deadline (see the post below for photographic evidence). The time stamp evidence, circulated on Twitter, eventually forced GOP leaders to admit defeat, at least for tonight.

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[Berlum]

1. Republican "Family Values" = lie and cheat

as usual

[perdita9]

13. SOP for Evangelical Christians

If they truly paid attention to the Bible they'd focus more of their energies on feeding the poor and fighting ursury

[haele]

27. Thought one of the Ten Commandments was about "false witness".

I guess if lying for what one thinks is a "godly cause", it's okay.

The right wing is full of blasphemers and false prophet$. Ghod is Money and Social Position, after all.

Me, I think real "go straight to hell" blasphemy is when someone claims to be speaking for his or her diety when they're trying to pursued everyone that their world-view is the only right world-view and they are the ones that should be in charge because they're "sitting at the right hand" of that deity.


Haele

[love_katz]

2. Glad someone caught them.

Lying, cheating, altering documents - which is quite illegal.

When do we get to rename the Repukes as the Lying, cheating, cheapskate, rip off party?

[duhneece]

7. And DOCUMENTED the 'catching'

They lie a lot, but get away with it...a lot. This time, someone documented their lie. Thank the Goddess.

[idwiyo]

3. Republicans cheat? Colour me surprised!

[okaawhatever]

4. I certainly hope someone investigates this for fraud. Actually, the gotp calling

itself a political party is a fraud.

If they don't get this investigated, they better trade it off for promises of not calling another special session.

[deminks]

5. Changing time stamps on a legal document-isn't that criminal? nt

[Scootaloo]

6. Not when a Republican does it!

[TorchTheWitch]

21. it's a felony

Tampering with official government records is a felony. There has to be an investigation on how this occurred and who fraudulently attempted to push this bill through by tampering with the official vote record. I'd also like to know why on earth they thought they could possibly get away with it. What, did they really imagine that no one would be paying attention? Barking idiots.

I also really want to know HOW it could be done. Surely changing the timestamp isn't so simple as deleting it and typing in a new timestamp, and surely it couldn't be done by just anyone on a mere whim. I'm not seeing how this could be done without someone deliberately hacking into the software to tamper with the record, and I'm not seeing that it could be just any someone or how this would not be been planned in advance.

[Berlum]

22. "Throw the book at them." - RepubliCON Jeezus (R)

"Obey the law or pay the price. No mercy. Your behavior VIOLATES the coMMandments, and you will submit to hiGHer auTHority. Repent and be saVed, O' sinner mans." - RepubliCON Jeezus (R)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. They call it "restoring honor and integrity".

[deutsey]

8. These bastards know their agenda can't win

so they have to cheat or use Shock Doctrine tactics to push it through.

[GoneFishin]

15. Very true of their entire agenda. No one would support them, except billionaires, if they were

honest about their true agenda. It's also why they have to dumb down the education system, it creates too many smart people that might see through their BS.

[NealK]

9. Awesome!

[Snarkoleptic]

10. The livestream was riveting and I'm glad the crowd helped defeat the regressives.

[cui bono]

30. Wow. I got hypnotized by your coffee cup gif for a sec!

[KittyWampus]

35. the hovering cat gets me

[Marie Marie]

38. Trippy - felt like an acid flashback from long long ago.

Alice's Tea party??

[PoliticAverse]

11. "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." n/t

[HappyMe]

12. I'm glad they got caught.

Wouldn't the person that did the actual changing, and the person that told them to do it be in some sort of trouble?

[mbperrin]

14. Now this does my old populist heart some good!

Real actual democracy in action, and Dewhurst didn't like the look of it. Good. That proves it's a good thing.

Duncan? Pffft.

Super congratulations to all those who were able to attend in person!

NOW let's get that slime out of the Capitol and get Texas to change colors!

[BainsBane]

16. I thought the bill got through

So this means it's not law?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

32. I heard that the Gov. is wanting to set up another vote,

But at this time, it is not law.

[BainsBane]

34. Yes, unfortunately he declared a special session

So they can go back and get the bill passed.

[dembotoz]

17. changing records is a crime isn't it???? someone need to go to jail

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. nice MINIMIZING, BusinessInsider. com.

"Someone" "mysteriously" changed the time. GOP leaders had to admit defeat at least for tonight.

Translation for accuracy:

a REPUKE illegally altered an official document in an ILLEGAL attempt to ILLEGALLY change the outcome of LEGISLATION AFFECTING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES but it's just a cute silly joke--don't get upset, repukes just missed their chance to ILLEGALLY ALTER THE OUTCOME OF A LEGAL PROCEDEEDING tonight.

Nothing about a Senator's heroic effort to save women's lives, in the face of REPUKE cheating, heckling, machination and AFTER the last minute ILLEGAL TAMPERING.

Oh, women's lives--those don't count. I forgot.

[BrotherIvan]

23. ^^This!^^

[Fire Walk With Me]

24. Yes!

[felix_numinous]

28. Like it has been done before

--nothing to see here, just a little shuffling of a couple digits. They were just caught this time. Aaaaugh--- that was close!!!!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

46. yeah. it 's just a silly little faux pas

And that woman who won on a mighty challenge for the sake of Women? Nothin' to say, there.

I guess the only time patriarchists are capable of seeing a woman's heroism is if she's blocked bullets with her body. And died. For children.

[Rex]

29. Since the 2000 Theft, they are much more brazen

about their hatred for laws and regulations.

[suffragette]

36. Agree entirely. And whoever falsified that should be prosecuted for it.

[area51]

45. +1 n/t

[bemildred]

19. That's fraud, plain and simple. nt

[malaise]

31. And someone needs to pay for it n/t

[Dustlawyer]

20. It's ironic that the attacks on Wendy were that she was the minority holding up the majority

and that is wrong! I would loved to have asked them what did they think was going on in the U.S Senate?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. Point! n/t

[Scurrilous]

25. Nice!

[rdking647]

33. Texas penal code section 37.10

Sec. 37.10. TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENTAL RECORD. (a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its falsity; or

(6) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank governmental record form with knowledge that it was obtained unlawfully.

(b) It is an exception to the application of Subsection (a)(3) that the governmental record is destroyed pursuant to legal authorization or transferred under Section 441.204, Government Code. With regard to the destruction of a local government record, legal authorization includes compliance with the provisions of Subtitle C, Title 6, Local Government Code.

(c)(1) Except as provided by Subdivisions (2), (3), and (4) and by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.


dewhurst,campbell and all the other GOP ass clowns should be led away in handcuffs. maybe held without bond for 30 days to kill perrys new special session

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. It was crazy last night

They were caught red handed

[4bucksagallon]

39. I want to know who changed the stamp and who ordered it changed. n/t

[gtar100]

41. Fucking conniving repukes. So willing to cheat to get their own way.

Despicable low lifes. In their next life, may they find a planet that has absolutely no liberals, all conservatives, and no resistance to to their plans. And see how quickly they burn it up in their self - made hell. Because they are doing it here and blaming us for their own shit.

(a brief moment of bitterness; so tragic we have to put up with them and carry their sorry asses into a better world)

[freshwest]

42. Hissyspit, thanks for this! So proud of my fellow Democrats in TX for foiling the GOP tricks!

[adieu]

43. A crime has been committed.

Will justice prevail and someone be prosecuted?

[adieu]

44. BTW

I believe it's Timestampghazi now.

/snicker
//sarcasm