August 06, 2003
Most Partisan TX Editorial from WHERE?
By Byron LaMasters
That would be George W. Bush's "hometown" newspaper, the Crawford Lone Star Iconoclast. You'd think that they would be as pro-Republican as can be, yes? Wrong. Take a look at this, from the Bush's hometown:
The Iconoclast of the Week is New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who assigned a state trooper to protect the protesting Texas legislators from bounty hunters. The Rightist lunatics who have taken over the state legislature were reportedly planning to hire gun thugs to go to New Mexico and bring back the 11 Texas legislators who fled the state to stop lying Texas Gov. Rick “Tricky Ricky” Perry’s illegal gerrymandering scheme.
Perry’s plan has wasted $3 million of taxpayers’ money in hopes that Perry’s Rightist party hacks won’t have to bother campaigning and explaining these kinds of Fascist tactics. Richardson pointed out that police officers in New Mexico take a dim view of kidnapping, and gave the Texans police protection. These protesters are not doing anything illegal. In fact they are representing the will of a majority of Texans, who oppose redistricting. Of course Rightists have no compunctions about breaking the law or following the will of the majority.
The Rightists should be wary of Richardson. New Mexico’s legislature has just been won by the Democratic Party. So has Oklahoma’s, where Texas legislators fled to stall off the last Rightist power grab. Both those states have warned that they may consider a similar redistricting move and eliminate the seats of virtually all Republican Congressmen from those states. This move by the Rightists is not only venal, it is downright stupid.
Well, a little crazy, but hell, I just love the fact that Bush's hometown has itself a nice left-wing weekly paper. It serves him right. Still, I can think of nastier things to call nutty Republicans than "rightists". Let's be a little more creative here.
Update: The Iconoclast had a similarly partisan editorial back in May when the House Democrats broke quorum.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at August 6, 2003 03:35 AM
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Calling Crawford that carpetbagger's hometown is a bit of a stretch.. If Kennebunkport were to run a partisan anti-GOP editorial like that, then maybe that'd be newsworthy.
Crawford's mayor is an African American Democrat. Congressman Chet Edwards and State Rep. John Mabry both D-Waco carried Crawford in 2002.
Gotta love this Iconoclast editorial: "Give (the legislators) each 10 days, a Big Chief tablet, and a box of Crayons (64-count, the big box). Allow each of them, if they so wish, to create their own congressional redistricting map.
At the end of 10 days, gather up all the maps, and throw them into one of those barrels you roll round-and-round to pick a raffle winner. Make the barrel solid, so whoever is rolling and whoever is choosing cannot possibly see inside.
Have a preacher, picked at random, to draw three maps. After all, everyone trusts a preacher."
Well, I've since put hometown in quotations... that's probably more appropriate.
Didn't know that pc. I figured that Edwards and Mabry would have carried Crawford as the Waco portions of Mabry's district is pretty heavily GOP. I always thought that most of the African American population of McLennan County was further to the east in Jim Dunnam's district, though.
It is Byron. But he's a long time Crawford guy. There's not many black folks in Crawford. But he's a popular minister. Most blacks do live in south Waco close to the Brazos river.
The lake Waco area is where the hyper GOPers live. Most of the county offices are still held by Dems though. Kip Averitt lives in McGregor on the western GOP side of McLennan.
phil,
George W. Bush moved to Texas when he was only a few months old. How the heck do you consider him a capetbagger?
Why in the world are you endorsing Kerry, a LIBERAL New Englander? He has no idea of what he believes in. He goes with the political wind. He will be weak on security, our biggest need. He has no moral clarity. He will NOT represent Texas well.
