If you want to know what actual tyranny looks like, ask poor women in Texas

[freshwest]

25. Well, then you should participate with them more often, if you think they're doing well.

Did you contact your Democratic representatives in your precinct, county, or state? I don't even know who your repesentatives are.

We have a pro-active blue governor protecting our rights, and we support them by sending money to Battleground Texas, but it's simply not the top of our agenda.

The baggers have forced us to operate without a state budget for two months and things are critical. The Sequester has also hit our state hard, many are doing without work, others are having their education interfered with.

In the meantime, we are implementing the Medicaid expansion in the ACA and it is making a huge difference for many people, except the libertarians and baggers are trying to shut it down at the state level. We have a lot of starve beast libertarians here who want the state shut down, and everything privatized.

Are there any big issues going on in ths state of CA at this time that you want dealt with by the legislature, or Brown to assist women's rights in CA? Haven't these issues been addressed in the state version of Medicaid whatever it's called down there?

This is the primary issue in Texas. These zealots have been cutting all kinds of rights - for the poor. Not every state is doing this, but the red ones are. We're concerned about the inroads of baggers and libertarians who want this state to go red. We don't want to fight the same thing that Texas is now.

And it's coming to every state that loses its Democratic majority. This would not have happened in Texas with a blue legislature and a Democratic win in Texas in the next election is the only thing that is going to stop this.