Juanita Jean voices her opinion of the JOP who jailed the honor student for absences:

[Are_grits_groceries]

Do Like Mitt Said. If You Don’t Have $20,000 to Start Your Business, Borrow It From Your Dad
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The Honorable Republican Judge Lanny Moriarty wanted to make an example of Diane.

“If you let one run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest of ‘em?,” said Judge Lanny Moriarty. “Let them go too? A little stay in the jail for one night is not a death sentence.”

Lanny, Dude, she is not running loose. Lanny, Dude, this baby girl needs help, not punishment. Open your damn Republican wallet with a sledgehammer, Lanny, and give this child a couple bucks. Hold one of those golf tournaments you Republicans love and let this baby girl sleep in the locker room while you Christian boys drink some beer and slap each others hineys.

The wise Judge Moriarty also gave Diane a $100 fine. Lanny, Dude, that’s not helping the situation.
Republicans just don’t get it. They really don’t. He made her an example, okay. He did. He made her an example of the cruelty and meanness the Republican Party brings to the American arena.

You can contact the good Republican Judge on Tuesday being your usual kind selves and ask if you can send a couple of bucks to him to help pay Diane’s fine. But you want some kind of proof that it went toward her fine and not his wallet with the chain and double lock around it.
Site with info on how to contact this jackass: http://www.mctx.org/courts/justices_of_the_peace/justice_of_the_peace_pct_1/index.html

Lanny better pray he can take his money with him and that Sweet Jesus takes bribes because that’s the only way he’s gonna get to heaven.
http://juanitajean.com/

Heh!

[tanyev]

1. Oh how I love Juanita.

So true about the golf tournaments. Wine tastings, too. There's a group which I will not name in my very red area whose sole reason for existence is to raise money for a particular beneficiary. They have at least one golf tournament and one wine tasting a year and the amount of money they raise is a pittance compared to what comes in from other sources. Ridiculous.

[coalition_unwilling]

2. OT (somewhat) but 'Moriarty' was the evil mastermind in

Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories. Who said life doesn't imitate art?

[rocktivity]

3. The only people who belong in jail are her parents.

A 17-year-old still in high school has no business trying to be anyone's breadwinner. The judge should have arranged for legal guardianship, public assistance, foster care -- and a warrant for the arrest of their parents for child abandonment.


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[elehhhhna]

4. "foster care" for teens in Houston = homeless shelter

way to go, America!

[rocktivity]

5. I don't doubt it. But technically, she IS homeless.

Compared to what she's doing now, I think she's much better off in the long run going to school full time, working part time, and not being expected to pay anyone's bills but her own.

P.S. If her brother was smart enough to get into college, he must be smart enough to figure out how to support himself -- even if it means going part-time.


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[Are_grits_groceries]

6. She's trying to stay OUT of the foster care system and

keep her younger sister out too. I don't blame her. The thought of being sent to some random place with no say in it would have me considering living in a box until I finished school. There is no guarantee that the foster parents are going to be decent.

The people who try to protect kids are overworked. There is no guarantee that they will help if there is a problem.

I hope she gets the help she needs from someone in the community. Maybe someone she knows will step up and help out with living arrangements.

If they were remanded to foster care, she would probably go crazy worrying about her sister especially if they weren't together. The last place they need to be is caught up that bureaucratic web of no return.

[rocktivity]

9. She's trying -- and she's failing. She needs a Plan B.

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She can't afford to keep doing what she's doing and needs to lighten her load -- both financially and logistically -- before she ends up causing some actual harm.

P.S. Here's the permalink to the story -- the link in the OP goes to the home page.


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[Gothmog]

7. Juanita may be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

If you read the comments, the first comment is from a freeper type who Susan Bankston had fun responding to.

Susan is a great lady and we are planning on supporting her bid to a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. If she is elected, she has promised to blog and tweet about the proceedings.

I am trying to get Susan to come to DU meetup at the Texas Democratic Party state Convention in June.

[iemitsu]

8. i teach in an inter-city public high school

where 62% of the students are eligible for free or reduced lunches.
many of them are in the same position as Diane from texas. they go to work from school and sometimes come to school from work.
don't condemn this young woman or presume that she is not doing what she needs to do. she would not be better off separated from her family even if they are a burden.
while we like to think that life is easier for american kids, it simply is not the case.
the judge should have been looking for scholarship monies for this young woman rather than punishing her for having to work hard and struggle.
newt gingrich would have armies of poor kids doing this same thing and call it character building.