Texan lashes out at Bush in speech

[Avalon Sparks]

Democratic state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, utilizing a coast-to-coast platform given to her by her national party, on Saturday accused Republicans of trying to steal elections.

"The three R's — recount, recall and re-redistricting — are the new playbook for a narrow Republican majority attempting to use government to expand partisan power," Van de Putte said in the Democrats' broadcast response to President Bush's weekly radio address.

"In Texas, they want to use redistricting to cancel the votes of millions of rural, independent and minority voters and to dictate who their congressman should be," she said.

More:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/texas/legislature/0903/0921redistrict.html

[Brucey]

1. The link didn't work for me, but thanks for pointing out

one more person who is talking!

[judgegina]

2. The wonderful

Sen. Leticia Van de Putte also had this to say about Dubya's attempt to gain support among minorities: "The president cannot claim he wants to win our hearts while the White House signals it's OK to steal our votes."


Excellent!

[MuseRider]

3. She seems like

a scrapper. Good for her, we need more like her.

[realFedUp]

4. The 3 R's seem to be hitting more soundbites lately

glad the Dems have a soundbite committee finally. :-)

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Here's her webpage...

where you can drop her an email thanking her for her comments.

http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist26/dist26.htm

I sent her this:

"I am pretty much as far across the country from you as can be, but we have a common cause.

Many of us have been following the Texas redistricting battle, as we follow the CA recall, and realize that it could happen here, wherever "here" is.

Thank you for standing tall in this fight. It is a fight we all share for the soul of our country."

[Pastiche423]

6. Thank you for posting

her email address. I sent her a thank you.

[karlschneider]

7. Played with the link a little, try this:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/texas/legislature/0903/0921redistrict.html

[Tatiana]

8. The three R's

I like it. Recount, recall, redistricting....Republican.

Very soundbite worthy!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. The biggest R of all: voter REGISTRATION

or should I say UNregistration? I like this approach to calling out their dirty tricks, but the registration shenanigans are really what gave them Florida.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Some day, lets hope soon, the real truth, irrifuteable truth, will surface

to break up this RRR & R Pub threat. Bush and Pub Masters who use him, will be naked from the truth.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

11. Does anyone in FLorida even talk anymore?

or is Palast's writings the complete comprehensive story?