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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Sanguine on March 05, 2019, 06:42:03 pm
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By: Wes Rapaport
Posted: Mar 04, 2019 / 10:09 PM CST / Updated: Mar 04, 2019 / 10:41 PM CST
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the state's Capital city Monday night, telling Democrats in Travis County much of what happens in terms of democratic success in the 2020 election will come from central Texas.
"Texas is ground zero for us in the next election," Pelosi said to the sold-out crowd at the Travis County Democratic Party's Johnson Bentsen Richards Dinner. The dinner is the party's major fundraising event and was named in remembrance of Texas' democratic legacy: 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, four-term Senator Lloyd Bentsen and the state's 45th Governor Ann Richards.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delviers remarks as the featured speaker at the Travis County Democratic Party's annual Johnson Bentsen Richards fundraising dinner. March 4, 2019 (Nexstar Photo/Wes Rapaport)
"Know your power, this state is so important," Pelosi told donors. "When it turns — and it will soon — it will make a difference not only in Texas and the lives of individual people here, it will make a difference in the country and it will make a difference in the world."...
If you're not already organized and ready to fight the good fight, you're late.
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Texas Democrats shut out of statewide office longer than Democrats in other states
https://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/sep/26/texas-democrats-have-lost-statewide-elections-long/ (https://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/sep/26/texas-democrats-have-lost-statewide-elections-long/)
September 26th, 2012
and still holding strong today....
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Texas Democrats shut out of statewide office longer than Democrats in other states
https://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/sep/26/texas-democrats-have-lost-statewide-elections-long/ (https://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/sep/26/texas-democrats-have-lost-statewide-elections-long/)
September 26th, 2012
and still holding strong today....
The rats may not rule the entire state, but they damned sure rule the big cities..... Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, etc. And no matter how we on the right vote in those elections, they always seem to overwhelmingly defeat us, somehow.
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The rats may not rule the entire state, but they damned sure rule the big cities..... Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, etc. And no matter how we on the right vote in those elections, they always seem to overwhelmingly defeat us, somehow.
Probably because most right-thinking people avoid living in the city.
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Probably because most right-thinking people avoid living in the city.
And don't rule out some mischief at the polls created by the big-city machine.