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Related: About this forumTexas secession plank defeated at state GOP convention
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/texas/article/Texas-secession-plank-defeated-at-state-GOP-7467954.phpDALLAS (AP) Secessionists tried and failed to insert into the Texas Republican Party's official platform language supporting "independence from the United States" but not without causing a stir on the floor of the state convention.
Thousands of delegates were hammering out the party's platform in Dallas on Friday when language was proposed backing secession.
That drew applause and Republican Party Chairman Tom Mechler was briefly booed when he cut off debate on a related matter...
Thousands of delegates were hammering out the party's platform in Dallas on Friday when language was proposed backing secession.
That drew applause and Republican Party Chairman Tom Mechler was briefly booed when he cut off debate on a related matter...
Once again, it didn't happen.
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Texas secession plank defeated at state GOP convention (Original Post)
blogslut
May 2016
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)1. It appears that the sane in the Texas GOP do outnumber the crazies.
blogslut
(38,021 posts)2. Ha! Well...
I wouldn't go that far.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)3. You are probably right.
TwilightZone
(25,505 posts)4. Support for secession rarely tops 20-25% in TX
The media and the GOP blow it way out of proportion.
They're the same 25% who supported Cheney at the end of Bush's second term. You can get 25% of the public to approve of just about anything.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)5. That probably says something about humanity in general.
And it isn't pleasant.
TwilightZone
(25,505 posts)6. Only 25% of it. haha
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)7. I'm here photographing this convention. lol, I'm not so sure.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)8. I do not envy you that job.