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Arkansas Granny

(32,188 posts)
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 11:21 AM Jul 2018

Trump is no longer our leader': Texas GOP lawmaker says it's time to impeach Trump after Putin meeti [View all]

When I was ten years old, over a plate of rice, beans and tortillas, I watched the evening news in front of an old Emerson 19-inch tube TV. On the screen was a man who looked like a grandpa, resembled the dad on “Father Knows Best,” and who spoke of a Shining City on the Hill — whatever that meant.

I didn’t know who Ronald Reagan was at that time, but I knew he was an honorable man. I knew that he cared for me and my family. And I knew that even though I did not look like him, I wanted to be like him: fearless, just, righteous — an American.

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I was one of the only Republican elected officials in the country to plead with the American voters to abandon this charlatan prior to his election. For my transgressions, I was summarily unelected from the Texas Legislature. I have no regrets. I always do what I believe is right. That is not politically expedient, but it helps me sleep at night.

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But what he doesn’t know is that you are not a fool. You, like me, are an American. And no man will own your heart and mind like this president thinks he owns you.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/trump-no-longer-leader-texas-gop-lawmaker-says-time-impeach-trump-putin-meeting/amp/?__twitter_impression=true


By Jason Villalba, State representative, R-Dallas

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