Finally the Letter W gets its Dignity Back!
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Yeeeehaaaa~
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Many Americans first came to the realization of the oppressive policies being instituted in the state of Texas with the heroic filibuster effected by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis last Tuesday. That filibuster was just a continuation of an incessant fight by valiant Texas women who refuse to capitulate to a Texas undemocratic Republican Party.
The first big March on the Texas Capitol on women issues in recent times was the War On Women Rally in April of 2012. It was successful in that it showed Austin that there was a building revolt which slowed down some of the oppressive legislations.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/29/1219858/-Thousands-Of-Women-To-Rally-w-Wendy-Davis-On-Texas-Capitol-To-Start-Special-Session-VIDEO#
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Thank you UtahLib!
Wendy Davis is going to turn Texas blue!
it weren't expected..
Why We Should All Support Wendy Davis for Governor of Texas
"Texas Governor Rick Perry has made no effort to hide his disdain for Davis or her background (Clifton, 2013). Although he is not running for re-election, he’s done everything he can to demean and downplay Davis and her credentials. And the person she’ll most likely be running against is more radical than Governor Perry, if that’s even possible (Clifton, 2013)."
Their tactics should Backfire right back in their ugly lying collective face. 
"Being Pro-Choice does not mean you are for abortion. It means you recognize & respect a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions. Just as saying you are against abortion, does not make you Pro-Life.
More than 83 men, women, & chil..."
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http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-people-die-of-hunger-in-america-a-day
State Sen. Wendy Davis donned a back support belt with the help of colleague Rodney Ellis, which became a point of order during the seventh hour of the filibuster. (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer)
12 and a half hours!
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/wendy-davis-begins-filibuster-to-stop-omnibus-abortion-bill.html/
She is an inspiration to all of us.
and in the end~
Go WENDY....turn Texas Blue!
Sid
Love ya Sid!
Thought for sure we'd see a woo billboard or something.
Finally, The Letter W Gets Its Dignity Back
January 06, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Category: Uncategorized
A picture is worth a thousand words. (Click the picture to see it full size.)
Thanks for the link!
Her too
i like that the possessive, "its" is properly NOT apostrophized, too! 
I approve 
That truck is a wonderful symbolic pic of how Texas is Changing. "Dignity back" indeed.. it couldn't have sunk much lower.
Thank you, she~
"Davis was relatively unknown until last June, when she captured the attention of the nation as she filibustered the ultra-conservative Texas state senate on women’s reproductive rights. Although she lost that fight, thousands demonstrated in her support; indeed, she earned the respect and support of Democrats and women from across the country.
I was one of them. As a woman of a certain age, in the last months, I have been increasingly distressed as the Republican Party turned back years of progress on women’s rights. Even though I claim the status of a “woman of a certain age,” the women who worked so hard for these changes were older than I am. While I grew up hearing horror stories, they were not my stories.
It has been a long time now. Moreover, with time, the stories and the reasons why anyone ever worked so hard for these rights seems somehow lost to history.
They are not lost to Wendy Davis. Raised by a single mom, as a teenager she too became a single mom, living in a trailer park in Texas. She didn’t let that hold her back, and she went on to study at Harvard Law School.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has made no effort to hide his disdain for Davis or her background (Clifton, 2013). Although he is not running for re-election, he’s done everything he can to demean and downplay Davis and her credentials. And the person she’ll most likely be running against is more radical than Governor Perry, if that’s even possible (Clifton, 2013)."
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I was among them. I came of age in the seventies. While the fights for women’s rights were still being raged, the bra burning women’s libbers were older than me, and I was too young to understand completely.
In those days, so many women were dying from illegal backroom abortions; the concern seemed to preempt all other. Our high school physical education (PE) teacher kept trying to tell us about the things she felt that we, as young women, needed to know. We had lecture after lecture about the dangers of backroom abortions and clothes hangers.
In a time when to be unmarried and with child meant living as an outcast and in poverty, illegal and makeshift abortions were a tremendous risk to the lives of unmarried women who found themselves pregnant.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/why-we-should-all-support-wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/
Thank you, Cha!
That's a work truck, and unlike most of the trucks around here with conservative stickers on them. Those trucks are in pristine condition, are driven 90 miles one-way into "work" because they want to live as far away from the inner city as possible, and have never been on a work site or had a load of gravel dumped in the back.
That truck above has seen better days, and is ready for them again! Go Wendy! 
And yes, I donated a couple of months ago, and will do so again soon
Always leave it to a woman!
