Texas cops arrest Democratic campaign worker after asking his candidate's party affiliation

[Gothmog]

I live near Waller and the chair of the Waller County Democratic Party is a friend. Waller is home to Texas Prairie View A&M which is a HBCU that has been the subject of a great deal of voter suppression and litigation. Waller is a mainly white county and the county government tend to be mainly very very white redneck idiots. This is also the town where Sandra Bland was killed or died.

The local yokels in Waller have tried to suppress the vote. There is a SCOTUS opinion to the effect that Waller can not prevent Prairie View students from voting merely because they are not white and the fact that they are only students. Waller is a very racist little town full of racist assholes.

The Waller county govt has a new way to try to keep Prairie View students from voting and the civil rights attorney running in that congressional district was trying to stop this without litigation. He sent his field director to deliver a letter and the field director was arrested for being Jewish and a Democrat.

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[Gothmog]

1. Here is the letter from the candidate

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[democratisphere]

2. Texas remains a mess.

Maybe someday.

[Gothmog]

4. Waller County is a mess but we are working on it

This district is heavily gerrymandered and the GOP candidate is married to a heir of Clear Channel founders

[democratisphere]

10. Figures.

[SoCalNative]

5. I say we just give Texas back to Mexico

problem solved.

[BaileyBill]

8. Why do you hate Mexico?

[democratisphere]

9. Mexico probably doesn't want them either.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. When will everyone realise that we are all Americans? God, what a mess. NT

[kacekwl]

6. You know I keep hearing there are more of us than them.

I'm really not sure anymore. I'm surprised daily at the amount of racists I encounter. It seems to be OK not to try to hide it now.

[crankyoldguy]

13. In the Open

Don't make 'em hide. I like bigots right out in the open so I know who they are and don't have to guess.

[Gothmog]

7. Congressman Al Green is involved

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[Cha]

11. Thank You for all this info on your friend's

unwarranted arrest, Goth.

[Gothmog]

18. Al Green and Sheila Jackson Lee tend to compete for attention

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[crankyoldguy]

12. Maybe?

With most stories like this, I always feel like there is information we aren't getting. I lived in a small town once where there was a democrat majority EXCEPT there was also a religious (Lutheran) college in town and the number of republican students there was just enough to give them a majority in local elections. They didn't pay taxes there, own property, have a vested interest and were going to be gone at graduation, but they put (R)'s in all of the local offices - sheriff, town council, board of education etc. It makes people in towns like that pissed off. Some ugly things were done and said. It doesn't make it right, but..

[monmouth4]

14. They are both on Rachel right now..n/t

[Gothmog]

15. I listened to this on Sirus

I am watching this DVR

[Gothmog]

16. From Rachel

[Gothmog]

17. update

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