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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Perry Calls For Special Session To Address Abortion Bill - for July 1st
"I am calling the Legislature back into session because too much important work remains undone for the people of Texas," Perry said in a statement. "Through their duly elected representatives, the citizens of our state have made crystal clear their priorities for our great state. Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn. Texans want a transportation system that keeps them moving. Texans want a court system that is fair and just. We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do."
The special session will start Monday, July 1.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gov-perry-calls-special-session-to-address-abortion
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)They only meet every other year. Hawai'i's Legislature meets every year. Hawai'i would barely be a decent-sized county in Texas.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Hopefully more Texan women will show the governor what "important work" really looks like. Though I've read that the Dems expect it will eventually squeak through and then be challenged in the courts.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I needed that laugh!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)He's just an ass.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)but those can be useful too!
How about he is as useful as a screen door on a submarine?
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)both of our initial offerings have a much more satisfying invective quality than the screen door on a submarine example does though...
I was putting an awful lot of contemptuous spin on that "ass" response
Maybe someone will come up with a better one!
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)And the "rape kit as abortion" lady can go too.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,210 posts)These bastards will do it to you in a New York Minute. The days of the Marquis of Queensbury are long past.
Beaverhausen
(24,475 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)boston bean
(36,224 posts)Fuck that creep!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Requiring clinics to achieve hospital level surgical standards (which are unnecessary, and would essentially close down the majority of the clinics) is to protect the women!
Rex
(65,616 posts)Perry is the worst creature to rule over Texas since George Warmonger Bush.
blogslut
(38,021 posts)I hadn't heard that before!