08.11.14
TPA Blog Round Up (August 11, 2014)
(Programming Note: EOW has been away for a week. Expect regular programming to resume soon).
The Texas Progressive Alliance is glad to live in an age where we can zap political ads on TV if we want to as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff wonders why AG Greg Abbott didn’t just have his own lawyers testify in the latest lawsuit against HB2 given how much they coached their witnesses.
Libby Shaw at Texas Kaos is very disturbed to learn Greg Abbott?s rulings and decisions demonstrate a pattern of his support for abusers vs. their victims. Corporate Marionette Greg Abbott Seems to Enjoy Punishing Victims.
Glenn Hager, Tea Party candidate for Texas Comptroller, was caught in the act. Bay Area Houston has the video.
After being told all summer that “nobody pays attention until Labor Day”, PDiddie at Brains and Eggs had to wonder if we had suddenly jumped ahead a month on the calendar.
What’s this about voter fraud? CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants all of the reality-based people to know that voter id does nothing to stop fraudulent absentee ballot procedures.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Texas Watch points you to a resource to tell how safe your hospital is.
LGBTQ Insider calls the 2014 elections “imperative” for the LGBT community.
Juanita finds a bad use of ta tas.
TransGriot and HOUEquality have news roundups on the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance and the so far failed effort to put an item on the ballot to repeal it.
Lone Star Q lists the 63 Texas legislators that signed on to the Texas Conservative Coalition brief in the same sex marriage appeal, in which they drag out more insulting and discredited arguments to support those made by AG Greg Abbott.
Grits for Breakfast still thinks the Driver Responsibility surcharge should be scrapped.
Lone Star Ma celebrated World Breastfeeding Week.
SciGuy showed us what happens when a spaceship gets close to a comet.
The Highwayman and Unfair Park examine the link between poverty and fatal auto/pedestrian accidents.