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Latest Texas Forum Posts

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Perry threatens to end all women's health services in Texas if PP wins a court caseZach F
5/7/2012 8:35:47 AM
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5/8/2012 3:23:50 AM
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The Keystone Pipelines tasher
1/18/2012 2:22:10 PM
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2/20/2012 3:26:05 AM
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How well do you know Ron Paul?Schmidt
12/26/2011 9:04:18 PM
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2/7/2012 10:16:58 PM
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A resolution condemning the RNC for arguing against the constitutionality of the Tillman Act o...CARLITOS BAM-BAM
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Illegal Imogration vs. legal Imogrationlbh123
11/18/2011 9:08:13 AM
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James Leininger's Impact on Rick Perry's PoliticsChristyR
8/29/2011 12:53:53 PM
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10/1/2011 3:48:57 PM
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Rick Perry's stimulus hypocrisySchmidt
8/17/2011 6:24:22 PM
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8/27/2011 3:36:40 PM
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Sanger ISD Calls Out Rick PerryChristyR
8/25/2011 9:24:38 PM
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8/25/2011 9:24:38 PM
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Texas Opinion & News Articles

DateArticle NameLocationAbout
05/15/12Without a Card to Play, Texas Grandma Sentenced to Life Without Parole for First-Time Drug ...aclu.orgLegalization of Drugs, Laws & Crime & Hard D...Reference
05/09/12Colin Powell's New Book: War With Iraq Never Debatedhuffingtonpost.com2003 Iraq War, Colin Powell & George W BushReference
01/23/12Ron Paul's Strange Bedfellows thenation.comFinancial Regulation & Civil & Human RightsReference
01/06/12Ron Paul: racist smears vs. deadly racist policiesgjfreepress.comRacism, Ron Paul & IowaReference
12/21/11The Story Behind Ron Paul's Racist Newsletterstheatlantic.comRon Paul & Ron Paul Newsletter ControversyReference
11/29/11Rick Perry gets U.S. voting age wrong in New Hampshirewashingtonpost.comRick PerryReference
11/13/11O’Malley knocks Perry, other GOP hopefuls on Sunday TVwashingtonpost.comMartin O'Malley & Rick PerryReference
10/03/11Rick Perry 'Niggerhead' Rock: Is GOP Candidate Racially Insensitive? huffingtonpost.comRick Perry, Texas & Perry's Ranch Bears Offe...Reference

Latest Conservative Controversies

DateControversy NameTypeAboutRankForum Posts (SORT)Total Content (SORT)
12/06/11Perry Misuse of Government ResourcesAbuse of PowerRick PerryAverage Severity & High Popularity00Reference
Rick Perry
Rick Perry may have illegally used Texas Government resources just before he kicked off his Presidential Campaign. Phone records show that Perry made numerous calls to donors, business men, and appointees from his Governors office which hints that he may have been campaigning from government phones, which is illegal in the state of Texas. No legal actions have been taken as of yet.
 
10/03/11Perry's Ranch Bears Offensive NameControversyRick Perry, Herman Cain & African AmericansMinor Severity & High Popularity01Reference
Rick Perry
The Washington discovered that the Perry family owns a ranch that locals call 'Niggerhead.' The name is carved into a rock at the entrance to the property and was painted over in 1980's when the Perry family began to lease it. Perry responded to the revelation by saying its an "offensive name that has no place in the modern world." Both Cain and Romney said criticized the name calling 'insensitive.' In response, Cain was accused of playing the race card by his fellow Republicans, some going as far as saying that until now C...
 
08/03/11Rick Perry's "Day of Prayer"Radical AgendaSeparation of Church & State & Rick PerryAverage Severity & High Popularity00Reference
Rick Perry
Rick Perry has announced that he will be hosting a "Day of Prayer" at Houston's Reliant Stadium which has brought up many concerns about political leaders organizing religious events. Perry expects to fill the 71,000 seat stadium but only 8,000 people have RSVP'd. This declaration by Perry also could cast a black mark on future campaigns on his stance on separation of church and state.
 
08/16/10Driver Double-Dips From Tax Payer MoneyCorruptionJoe DriverMajor Severity & Average Popularity (Confirmed Partially)00Reference
Joe Driver
Driver admitted on August 16, 2010, to taking taxpayer money from the Texas House of Representatives for expenses that had already been reimbursed to him by his own campaign. Essential he was being reimbursed twice for expenses during his campaign, one of those reimbursements coming from the tax-payers. Driver has plead guilty to 3rd degree felony charges and has been fined $5,000 and sentenced to 5 years probation.
 
2009 APRRick Perry's Texas Secession commentsRadical AgendaTaxes & Rick PerryMinor Severity & High Popularity13Reference
Rick Perry
In April of 2009, Rick Perry met in front of Tea Party members and brought up that Texas could secede from the union, if it ever wanted to. He said it probably will never come to that, but the way Washington keeps thumbing their nose at the American people, who knows what might happen.
 
09/08/05Tom Delay Campaign Money-Laundering ScandalCorruptionBusiness & Economy & Tom DeLayMajor Severity & High Popularity02Reference
Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay, a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas from 1979 to 1983 and from 1985 to 2006 and the House Majority Leader from 2003 to 2005, was convicted in 2010 of money laundering and conspiracy charges related to illegal campaign finance activities aimed at helping Republican candidates for Texas state office in the 2002 elections.
 
1996 NOVRon Paul Newsletter ControversyRadical BeliefRon PaulAverage Severity & High Popularity02Reference
Ron Paul
At the end of 2007, both the New York Sun and The New York Times Magazine reprinted passages from early 1990s publications of Paul's newsletters, attacking them for content deemed racist. These were the same newsletters that had been used against Paul during his 1996 congressional campaign.
 

Texas Conservative Quotes

DateConservativeTypeLocationAbout
02/23/12Craig JamesExtreme ViewDallas, TXGay Rights & Craig JamesVideoReference
 
James believes being gay is a choice and also punishable by god.
Craig James
I can assure you I will never ride in a gay parade. And I hear what youre saying, Tom, but leaders our kids out there people need to see examples... I think its a choice, I do... I think that you have to make that choice. But in that case right there, they are going to have to answer to the Lord for their actions. We should not give benefits to those civil unions.
 
02/09/12Rick SantorumFear MongeringPlano, TXReligion, Rick Santorum & LiberalsReference
 
The left is trying to oppress religion and Judeo-Christian values
Rick Santorum
When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles.
 
02/09/12Rick SantorumExtreme ViewPlano, TXGay Rights, Rick Santorum & LGBTReference
 
Comparing legalizing gay marriage to the French Revolution
Rick Santorum
They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then whats left is the French Revolution. Whats left is a government that gives you rights. Whats left are no unalienable rights. Whats left is a government that will tell you who you are, what youll do and when youll do it. Whats left in France became the the guillotine.
 
08/12/11Rick PerryExtreme ViewInterview with Andrew RomanoSocial Security, Medicare & Rick PerryReference
 
Perry claims that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid a Ponzi Scheme
Rick Perry
I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether its Social Security, whether its Medicaid, whether its Medicare. Youve got $115 trillion worth of unfunded liability in those three. Theyre bankrupt. Theyre a Ponzi scheme.
 
09/29/10Pete SessionsNegativityAt an Ivy league basketball gamePete Sessions & African AmericansReference
 
Sessions was commenting after seeing an Ivy League team play basketball
Pete Sessions
How often can you go see a bunch of white guys play basketball?
 
04/24/10Rick PerryNegativityGlenn Beck RallyRick Perry & Obama AdministrationReference
 
Perry uses violent rhetoric at a Glenn Beck rally
Rick Perry
Americans can take their country back and send a message to this administration, to this Congress and I consider myself proud to be in that army.
 
04/16/09Michael McCaulNegativityTea Party Rally, Austin, TXMichael McCaulReference
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul said, They fought against tyranny and oppressive taxes, do that sound familiar? We're continuing that revolution right here in Austin, Texas today. Thomas Jefferson said the Tree of Liberty will be fed by the blood of tyrants and patriots. You are the modern day patriots.
 
04/15/09Joe BartonNegativityPolitical RallyJoe BartonVideoReference
 
Joe Barton welcomes the idea that he and his supporters are extremists and right-wing terrorists.
Joe Barton
Welcome right-wing activists is that what we are?... Yeah extreme, well Im going to get me a button.
 

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