National Group Aims to Turn Texas Blue
Texas Democrats have been fighting an uphill battle against Republicans for almost two decades, but a new Washington-based group wants to invest tens of millions of dollars to turn Texas blue.
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raffaele cafagna
@ Samdavis : This is for you from the previous post ( REMEMBER ???)
@Samdavis : my name is Raffaele ; please do not mess up my name; thanks; I am not a professor , a lawyer or a computer genious ; I am a retired disabled vet standing tall for freedom and 2nd Amendment : I am a Free man in the Free State of Texas and intend to keep it that way ; you got to be another * brainwashed socialist democrat or similar * not me .I offered my services to the local school ( for free ) to protect the kids ;(standing outside on the school grounds); you Samdavis ,you are the one in need to learn about Facts , because you live in a world of * Fictions *, so , please educate yourself , read and study history and like you said statistics ; you don`t know nothing and you just talk ; everithing I posted here are Facts and statistics , not fictions ; the problem is you did not read my entire post ; the mentioning of Gun Free Zones are Massacres zone made you immediatly jump to conclusion and you replied to me in that particular manner; so please read before you jump to conclusion ; please do so ; I am not insulting anyone ; I do not intend to offend anyone ; just a simple conversation stating what is going on here in America the Land of the free and the home of the brave; and the shootout at the Lone Star College in Houston turned out to be gang-related and the shooters both had NO permits to carry guns ; so please read before jumping to conclusion. Thanks and blessings to all .
raffaele cafagna
This is your Democratic mentality
The prestigious Washington, DC school where Barack Obama sends his two daughters has 11 ARMED security officers as standard operating procedure for ALL of its students and is moving to hire a new police officer in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting by a madman.
In the last year he provided direct cash aid to
> >> > Hamas - 351 Million,
> >> > Libya 1.45 Billion,
> >> > Egypt - 397 M,
> >> > Mexico - 622 M,
> >> > Russia - 380 M,
> >> > Haiti - 1.4 B,
> >> > Jordan - 463 M,
> >> > Kenya - 816 M,
> >> > Sudan - 870 M,
> >> > Nigeria - 456 M,
> >> > Uganda - 451 M,
> >> > Congo - 359 M,
> >> > Ethiopia - 981 M,
> >> > Pakistan - 2 B,
> >> > South Africa - 566 M,
> >> > Senegal - 698 M,
> >> > Mozambique - 404 M,
> >> > Zambia - 331 M,
> >> > Kazakhstan - 304 M,
> >> > Iraq - 1.08 B,
> >> > Tanzania - 554 M,
: EPA costs US economy $353 billion per year -- A gift of 20 new F 16 given to Egypt . money for failed green energy companies, chevy volts, abortions, gays getting married at West Point and of course obamanotcare, Also, we have plenty of funds to spend on TSA agents to search little toddlers and old ladies in wheelchairs on a daily basis! to the Welfare, Food Stamps, Medicaid or "Obama phone" programs, wasted BILLIONS of dollars on crony-connected, "green energy" boondoggles that failed miserably ; all the ACORN affiliates/umbrella groups got tons of money to make sure the welfare bums made it to the polling places.....; increased foreign aid by 80%, each year Billions of our tax dollars to just about every country in the world now. Over $300 Billion is spent on illegal aliens each year.
Billions spent on some of the most stupid grant studies, WHY ASIAN WOMEN HAVE SEX WHEN THEY ARE DRUNK , A SHRIMP ON A TREADMILL ,WHY A BEE FLIES and on and on. There are so much nonsense they spend our money on. But THEY quietly LET FEDERAL FUNDING FOR SEVERAL KEY SCHOOL SECURITY PROGRAMS LAPSE IN THE NAME OF BUDGET SAVINGS . But No Budget in the last 4years.
Government plan...DISARM American Citizens... GUN FREE ZONES IS WHERE THE BIG MASSACRES TAKE PLACE
Yea lets punish those guns , but the Mental Criminal that pulls the trigger goes Free.
Chicago, with some of the strictest gun laws in the country, racks up it's 500th murder of the year.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/... There were 40,000 traffic deaths in 2011, but I don't hear any outcry over that . Why not confiscate all guns from the drug dealers, gang bangers , MS 13 and criminals first and than see if the crime rates drop. It just seems not matter the crisis government always wants to take away the guns from law abiding people first. Or how about the 40k people killed in Mexico how many were killed by the guns Holder allowed to be sold to the Cartels??? Yet the entire Fast and Furious scandal seems to be pushed aside to cover so many mistakes. WHY is it that H.S needs 2 Billion rounds of ammo ;and for what purpose ??
I am not a gun creazy and do not like violence . Are Americans so gullible and ignorant that we will put
our Constitution, our children, our teachers and the security of our homes in a lower security category than that in which we put our politicians?
God help us. But God isn’t allowed in our schools. Or in our public places ; but you accept and allow Islam teaching in our schools.
Democrats brainwashed socialists Stay the hell away from Texas.
Lindsey Dietert
Why would Texas want to go the why of the blue state? More taxes and fewer jobs, no way!
More and more business are moving here giving Texas the most job creation etc. I say don’t mess with Texas.
Dale Curry
@ raffaele cafagna - I have a few comments regarding your highly slanderous, and factually untrue, and deliberately misleading posts here:
1. Thanks for your service. Too bad you dishonor the integrity such service stand for when your comments are designed to mislead those you served.
2. You, and many like you should learn the definition of a socialist. Perhaps you do, and all this crap
is designed to inflame others with lies.
3. Your comments are practically delusional and clearly meant to spew the lies and distortions that is
fox news (propaganda).
4. I do not want you, or any of your ilk, toting guns at a school that is attended by any family member or child of a friend. The very idea is abhorrent to sane people.
5. It is beyond reprehensible to any sane, rational person with a basic level of compassion when you attempt to use the President's children as a political football. As a human who lived through assassinations and other attempts of two Kennedy's, King, Ford, and Reagan, I have NO tolerance of this. Nor does any person of conscience and you should be ashamed of yourself. As a Democrat, I find it equally reprehensible, but I also recognize that every time you or your ilk post this rhetoric, you move us a step closer to an Assault Weapons Ban. That is my silver lining.
6. Your claim POTUS provided direct cash to Hama is a GROSS LIE! Furthermore, besides Libya any implication our nation's foreign aid budget beneficiaries has changed since Reagan was in office is nothing more than a political lie used to distort the truth to further your agenda.
7. As to your homophobic and other bigoted comments, as a Democrat, I say, Please speak UP! Everytime one of your ilk raises their lies and rhetoric we move one step closer to a permanent Democratic majority. So, please have the courage of your convictions and spew your bile.
8. The rest of your comment is a litany of lies, misrepresentation, propaganda, inflammatory rhetoric, and sycophantic dogma. At best, you are delusional and sycophant who has been spoon fed a diet of lies, hatred, and anger wrapped up in your perversion of Christianity to meet your dogma. At worst, you are a man who has set out to intentionally distort the debate with lies and untruths in order to further the agenda. Either way, you do not do honor to your previous service.
Republican sycophants take your medications and STAY out of Austin!
Dale Curry
The only thing the corruption and dogmatic adherence to republican propaganda has done in this state is to deliver failure at so many levels. While it sounds nice to tout the employment levels, when one drills down to the type of employment, and compensation we see the wall of republican superior management fail. Jobs are great in Texas if your career goal is to work as a fry cook. But if you want the jobs of the 21st Century, better move to "liberal" state where they prioritize education over rhetoric.
R J
The Democrats want to bring their failed legacy of entitlements to Texas and enslave poor people with the chains of government subsidence handouts. Won't work. Texas voters have a message for the Democrats. We'll spend your money, drink your whiskey and have fun with your wimmin. And still vote against you.
raffaele cafagna
@ Dale Curry
raffaele cafagna :Beautiful day at the Capitol ; the sound of Freedom was Loud and Clear ; We are a Free People in the Free State of Texas and WE INTEND TO KEEP IT THAT WAY. God Bless Texas and all Freedom Loving Texans.January 21 @ 2:40 p.m.
Dale Curry : God Bless Our Republic and all her LOYAL citizens
@ Dale Curry : Do you remember this ??? It was on Gun appreciation day ; Jan.19 in Austin. It is called Freedom of Speech. Dale Curry do you know
what is Freedom ?? Dale Curry let me educate you with a short class on what freedom is not : a dog with is tail between his legs; do not look up; do not speak ; do what I tell you, don`t do what I do ; do you understand ???? That was when I was in Africa; yes I wa born in Africa and came here Legally to be a Free man in a Free Nation ; but today ,that is 50 years later, I fell like I am back in a third world country,just about to become an oppressed man.
That is your post : God Bless Our Republic and all her LOYAL citizens ( you posted it here on the Tribune) ; now my question is : why do you jump on me with all your wild, infectious insults in the vilest of terms, by spewing pure hatred and smearing, demonizing, threatening,.......???? Why is that ???
Dale Curry ...why ....???? Actually I never replied to any of your many posts here. I never said anything to you . You insult my time in the U.S.Army ; have you ever served your country ??? have you been places that the Lord Jesus got out of there so fast he left his sandals behind ( if you understand the meaning). In 96 I was with the U.S.Army in the Balkans , when Socialist Milosevic was in charge , killings and mass graves of Thousands of innocent peoples; and the City of Sarajevo turned into an Holocaust..... what do you know Dale Curry ??? And my comments , contrary to what you say , are pure Facts ; not Fictions like your mind dictates . I do not Follow the Media, CNN or NBC or all the rest; they are all corrupted and never tell the Thrut ; and do you know about Soros ????? Just check it and background too.
As a human who lived through .......... Kennedy's, King, Ford, and Reagan; ( yes indeed bless King ) ; you seen it on News papers; but in reality what do you know and what can you tell ?????? Nothing . you see I was there, 3 times, caught in between 3 coup d`etat, civil wars , in Africa ; the Guards in one side and military on the other and us civilians in between ; no fun at all but guns and tanks firing at each other. Toting guns at a school ?? I never said that ; ( your out of focus brain is telling you that ) ; I said walking the school perimeter, walking around the school or school grounds ; never said having a gun. Face it Dale Curry, Bush left a long time ago ; at that time the deficit was 10 Trillion and gas was $ 1.84 and today the deficit is about 17 T. and gas $ 3 + ; so what do you think ?????? Your dear POTUS of 4 years did what ???? When all hell broke lose in Benghazi and ambassador Steven requested help, Obama was annoyed and went to bed. do not Blame me these are FACTS.
Get off of my back, Dale Curry, go educate yourself , read the real Facts and most of all go wash your mouth with soap and water and stay the hell away Thank you. God bless America , God bless Texas.