#Texas Governor

[whitesinhistory]

On August 30, 1956, the first day of school, mobs of white pro-segregationists guarded Mansfield High School and patrolled the streets threatening to use guns and other weapons to prevent Black children from registering. Outside the school, the mob hung an African American effigy at the top of the school’s flag pole and set it on fire. Attached to one pant leg of the effigy was a sign that read, “This Negro tried to enter a white school. This would be a terrible way to die.” On the other leg, a sign read, “Stay Away, Niggers.” A second effigy was hung on the front of the school building.

In 1956, Mansfield, Texas, was a small farming town of 1,500 people. Its schools were strictly segregated and facilities for Black students were run-down and under-funded. Before the start of the 1956-1957 school year, in compliance with a federal desegregation order and the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision barring racial segregation in schools, the Mansfield school board approved a plan to admit 12 Black students to the all-white Mansfield High School. However, many local white residents opposed integration, and some took to the streets in protest.

In response to the unrest on the first day of school, Texas Governor Allan Shivers sent six Texas Rangers to Mansfield with instructions to “maintain law and order” and transfer any students “white or colored, whose attendance or attempts to attend Mansfield High School would be reasonably calculated to incite violence.” Soon afterward, the Mansfield School Board voted to “exhaust all legal remedies to delay integration.”

Though the U.S. Supreme Court in December 1956 rejected the Mansfield school district’s request to delay integration due to local opposition, resistance and non-compliance continued for years. Mansfield, Texas, public schools did not officially desegregate until 1965.

[texastrophyhunters]

Gore and The Governor on the Hunt

Back in the day when Rick Perry was governor of Texas and I was working for Texas Trophy Hunters, we both visited the MacLamore Ranch every time we got an invitation from Lanny Vinson. The large ranch lay on both sides of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Shackelford County, and was a wildlife haven. White-tailed deer, Rio Grande turkey, feral hogs, and a variety of varmints were abundant along the river watershed.

The year was 2004, and I suspect we were on the ranch for a birthday celebration or some other social event. We had our hunting clothes on, but I don’t think we were doing any hunting. It was fall, and we could have been chasing hogs, or bobcats and coyotes.

Gov. Perry was into bow hunting when this photo was taken, and he did quite well on spring turkey. Rick got pretty good with the bow under the guidance of Gen. Leroy Sisco, who was also a bow-hunting aficionado. Brian Hawkins videoed the governor’s hunt on the ranch when Rick arrowed a big gobbler for the “Texas Trophy Hunters TV” series.

In the photo, I’m toting my favorite hog gun, a renovated Winchester .30-30 with a short barrel and half magazine—a handy rifle for chasing hogs. I had traded for the rifle from Joe McBride in Austin, and my good friend Joe Marks and I had cut the barrel and magazine to make a unique hog gun.

Gov. Perry was the “Governor” when we were in town, but he was just Rick while we were hunting. I had known Rick long before he became governor. Our first meeting was on a quail hunt on the Landshead Ranch back in the mid-’80s. I think he might have been a state representative at that time.

When Rick served as state agriculture commissioner, we met on several occasions. I didn’t see him much when he was Lt. Governor, but when he took over the governorship of Texas in 2000 (George Bush went to the Presidency) and was elected for a total of 14 years as governor, we visited a lot in Shackleford County, which is just southeast of Haskell County—Rick’s old stomping ground.

I have always thought Texas could use more politicians like Rick Perry. He was a ranch boy who grew up under the guidance of good parents, went to Texas A&M University, and served the state of Texas for years in a variety of public offices. I am proud to call Rick Perry my friend.

—Horace Gore

[william-r-melich]

Shame on the Appeals Court - 03/20/2024

Late yesterday, the 5th Circuit Federal Appeals Court blocked Texas with a temporary injunction from enforcing their SB4 law which would allow Texas to arrest and deport migrants who enter their state illegally. Earlier yesterday, the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) issued an emergency appeal to remove a previous stay that was blocking SB4, a huge win for Texas. I didn't know that a Supreme Court appeal could be blocked by a lower Federal Court of Appeals, and they did so in the same day, crazy. So, Texas went from celebrating a victory for border security, to going back to being angrily frustrated at not being able to stop the stampede of illegal crossings. The 5ht circuit is entertaining arguments today on whether to stay the injunction, pending the outcome of an appeal at the SCOTUS.

“A majority of the panel has concluded that the administrative stay entered by a motions panel on March 2, 2024, should be lifted,” the unsigned order by the court reads. Yesterday, on March 19th, circuit judge Andrew Oldman disagreed: “I would leave that stay in place pending tomorrow’s oral argument on the question.” That was just hours after the SCOTUS had rejected an emergency request from the Biden jackasses to look at the administrative stay directed by the 5th Circuit's prior panel. The DOJ's (Department of Justice) stance on the law is that it violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause which declares that states do not have the right to enforce immigration laws.

As per usual with emergency appeals, the Supreme Court did not give a reason for issuing their order. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amey Coney Barrett issued aligning opinions. Barrett wrote on regarding actions of the high court: “never reviewed the decision of a court of appeals to enter—or not enter—an administrative stay.” She continued, that it is “unwise to invite emergency litigation in this Court about whether a court of appeals abused its discretion at this preliminary step.”

Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson had dissenting opinions. Sotomayor said the order “invites further chaos and crisis in immigration enforcement.” She went on to write that the law “upends the federal-state balance of power that has existed for over a century, in which the National Government has had exclusive authority over entry and removal of noncitizens.” - I say, bullstit! States have always had the legal right and shared responsibility for protecting their sovereignty. Yesterday, the Mexican government said that it will not accept any illegal migrants coming back to them no matter what. They said that anyone deported who is not a Mexican citizen does not have to be accepted by them.

All governor Abbott wants to do is to enforce the laws to keep his state safe and secure, and the Biden commies are doing everything they can to impede that. It's disgusting! Will this nightmare ever end? I sure hope so.

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[dragonstepp]

Immigrants

Texas Governor Abbott has decided to make immigrants criminals, and has just signed a bill saying so.

I wish he had been around when his own relatives emigrated to here; maybe he wouldn't have been born.

Carol in Austin

[saywhat-politics]

[mysticfoxdesigns]

Texas Antisemitism Executive Order

PLEASE SHARE THIS AROUND!!

As many of y'all know by now, I am a Texan. Specifically a Texan in higher education, at a public university. Gov. Abbott's new executive order to have public universities crack down on Anti-Semitic speech directly impacts the students advocating for Palestine.

Phrases such as "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" can now be considered HATE SPEECH!

“Some radical organizations on our campuses engaged in acts that have no place in Texas,” Abbott said in a press release. “Now, we must work to ensure that our college campuses are safe spaces for members of the Jewish community.”

This was never about protecting Jewish people, but protecting Zionists. The order was issued after universities across Texas had issues after Oct. 7th's events. Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel students were butting heads, and some broke out into fights according to some sources. As a uni student myself, I have seen these conflicting sides in person. Abbott's statement also makes no mention of the Anti-Islamic rhetoric that has also been spreading due to Israel's persecution of Palestinians.

This order calls for all public universities and colleges review their free speech policies, and to lay out in their policies the definition of antisemitism, and punishments for Anti-Semitic rhetoric. All within 90 days of the order's publishment.

Most of this appears to be banking on HB 3257, the bill that introduced Texas' Holocaust, Genocide, And Antisemitism Advisory Commission

Now, there has been some actual pushback on this, from the The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas) as well as students and administration from the universities and colleges effected.

“This order not only undermines the principles of free speech and academic freedom but also perpetuates a harmful narrative that equates criticism of Israeli policies with antisemitism,” CAIR-DFW Executive Director Mustafa Carroll said in a statement.

Taken from the Dallas Morning News article posted earlier in this post.

The wordage used by Abbott worries many people, due to the fact that it is so vague. To the point where criticizing Israel and it's government can be considered hate speech.

Please share this around. If it is happening here, it can happen to any state.

Don't stop speaking about Palestine. Don't stop supporting the Palestinian citizens who are displaced right now. Educate your peers, donate if you are able, and don't give up hope.

[deadpresidents]

One of the earliest mentions about a potential political career for George W. Bush, TIME Magazine, February 27, 1989.

After two terms as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, Bush's father, George H.W. Bush had been inaugurated as the 41st President just a month earlier. George W. Bush would ultimately make his successful bid for Governor of Texas five years later.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

can't believe how smug this dude is when he's routinely shown to be stupid as fuck lmao

[lonestar-badash]

Just a few of my favorite reasons why Texas is superior.

[agnesandhilda]

I cannot tell you how awful it is in texas today

[thiswasinevitable-rwrb]

WIP Wednesday

I went ahead and started that Werewolf!Alex au so here's a bit of ch. 2 ~

“Sugar,” she said, finally settling into the wingback chair. “This is as much you making up for things as they are. It is within our rights as your parents and pack leaders to sue a gorgeous dent into their old and dusty bank accounts. They could singlehandedly fund my presidential campaign.” Alex perked up. “Have you decided on that?” “Not yet, but this wedding is not the way I want to start, if I do. That family is of much better us to us on good terms than bad. You’re going to make up for sabotaging a perfectly good dessert, and Henry is going to make up for your injuries going unattended. Are we clear?” Alex shimmied deeper into the couch as he grumbled, “Crystal.” “Good,” she chimed, her pleased, political voice sparkling as she shook her wrist to move her petite, expensive watch around to see the time. “Henry’s team will be here in roughly nine hours or so.” “He’s staying here? ” Alex all but yelled. Zahra confirmed, “That’s what friends do."

[saywhat-politics]

Looks Like Greg Abbott Failed to ‘Eliminate Rape’

In 2021, the Texas governor justified his state's abortion ban by pledging to "eliminate rape." Now, he launched a $100,000 billboard campaign against undocumented immigrants with messages such as “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?”

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