Rush's words spur rally at state Capitol
Republicans might lose more than sponsors.
Rush Limbaugh's words are spurring protests against the dwindling state healthcare budget, and by fall, the backlash might swing a few elections.
On four days' notice, Austin musician Marcia Ball drew 200 women to the state Capitol on Tuesday for a protest called "Seeing Red."
Next Tuesday, they plan to be back with reinforcements.
"People feel so powerless right now," said Ball, 62, calling Gov. Rick Perry a "raging hypocrite" and part of what her e-mail called "the Texas Taliban."
Days before Limbaugh's blurted bellicosity, the Texas Women's Health Program was eviscerated when Planned Parenthood clinics were eliminated as providers, costing Texas $40 million in federal dollars and leaving checkups and preventive care uncertain for 130,000 poor Texas women.
That was after the Legislature had cut women's care by $70 million.
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Oh please, please make it so. Please let women across Texas pick up their power (voting rights) and kick the republicans to the curb.
