Texas GOP votes not to put secession question on primary ballot

[TexasTowelie]

Last edited Sun Dec 6, 2015, 03:17 AM - Edit history (1)

By a wide margin, the Texas Republican Party’s state executive committee voted not to put a measure on the March 1 primary ballot to test sentiment on Texas independence.

Proponents said it was a harmless measure that would test public sentiment and drive up turnout in the primary by drawing Texas nationalists to vote on the GOP side.

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Proponents said it was a harmless measure that would drive up turnout in the primary.

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Opponents said that putting the measure on the ballot would make Texas Republicans a “laughingstock.”

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/texas-gop-votes-not-to-put-secession-question-on-p/npc3D/ (subscription required)

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ETA --Here is a longer article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:

http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article48266980.html

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Opponents said that putting the measure on the ballot would make Texas Republicans a “laughingstock.

Too late...

[saltpoint]

2. More useful maybe for the other 49 states

to have a ballot question:

Given the pathetic Republican officials it keeps sending to the Congress of the United States, should Texas be permitted to continue in the Union?

[malokvale77]

3. Duh.

Some of them are smart enough to know that Texas would not survive without all the federal dollars poured into this state.

All hat, no cattle.

[kentauros]

4. Upon reading the headline only, I thought, "Wow! Some intelligence for once."

And then I read the rest and realized it was a false flag

[hifiguy]

5. TX repigs are already

the laughingstock of the entire planet except perhaps for Saudi Arabia.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

6. would make Texas Republicans a “laughingstock.”

Uh... That ship sailed a long time ago.

[Half-Century Man]

7. That ship could pull water skiers

It is wizzing along so fast

[hobbit709]

8. Texas GOP had a sudden fit of sanity? What's wrong with them, are they sick?

[TexasTowelie]

9. The measure would likely bring out more Trump supporters

which makes it less likely for Cruz to get any delegates.

[hobbit709]

10. Let them kill each other.

[Gothmog]

11. This would have been fun