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Showing posts with label US st Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US st Texas. Show all posts

Monday, April 04, 2016

Gun control - Texas style

This is awsome. "... it only went click..." Wait for it... Hat Tip: A Marine buddy. Semper Fi

I did not check the veracity of this report. If it is not true, I do not care. It ought to be true. Just saying.


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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

San Antonio Passes Far-Reaching Antidiscrimination Measure

San Antonio Passes Far-Reaching Antidiscrimination Measure

By MANNY FERNANDEZ Published: September 5, 2013


HOUSTON — Nearly 200 cities across the country have enacted ordinances in recent years that prohibit bias by municipal employees or in city contracts over someone’s race, sex, age, religion or sexual orientation. Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth are a few of the Texas cities that adopted such measures.

But in San Antonio, a nondiscrimination ordinance that includes protections for sexual orientation and gender identity turned into a divisive political battle this summer, the likes of which this liberal-leaning city of 1.4 million has rarely seen in recent decades.

The City Council passed the measure, 8 to 3, on Thursday, capping weeks of heated debate that exposed racial, religious and gay-and-straight divisions and drew the scorn of Republican leaders and candidates around the state who are just starting to position themselves for next spring’s primary elections.

The Texas attorney general, Greg Abbott, who has been running for governor since Gov. Rick Perry announced he was not seeking re-election, weighed in on the issue, expressing his opposition. The state agriculture commissioner, Todd Staples, who is running for lieutenant governor — and who as a state senator sponsored the constitutional amendment that passed in 2005 that defined marriage in Texas as between one man and one woman — also spoke out against it.


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Friday, December 09, 2011

The New York Times Breaking News Alert: Supreme Court Steps In to Review Texas Redistricting

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, December 9, 2011 -- 8:03 PM EST
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/09/us/politics/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Texas-Redistricting.html?_r=1&hp
Supreme Court Steps In to Review Texas Redistricting

The Supreme Court on Friday evening agreed to hear a tangle of lawsuits over how elections in Texas next year for its state legislature and for Congress are to be conducted.

The court stayed orders from a special three-judge court in San Antonio, Texas, which had issued electoral maps late last month that seemed to help Democrats and Hispanic voters.

The justices ordered the parties to file briefs on a brisk schedule, and they will hear arguments on Jan. 9. The Supreme Court must move quickly if next year’s primary and general elections are to proceed in an orderly way.

Friday’s order did not say what election officials in Texas are meant to do in the meantime. Primaries are scheduled for March, and candidates have been filing under the court-drawn maps... 
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/09/us/politics/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Texas-Redistricting.html?_r=1&hp

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http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

The New York Times Breaking News Alert: Supreme Court Steps In to Review Texas Redistricting
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