Texas Primaries

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

2 minutes ago, Tonesky said:

So, you only get calls and texts from telemarketers, etc. to whom you’ve given your number?  Your name and cell number are already known by businesses that exist to sell it to those who want it.

I have never received a single political call or text in the five years I’ve lived here. I must be doing something right. 

[Tonesky 917]

1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I have never received a single political call or text in the five years I’ve lived here. I must be doing something right. 

Can you tell me how to stop the calls from people who want to buy my home?

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

3 minutes ago, Tonesky said:

Can you tell me how to stop the calls from people who want to buy my home?

I don’t get those either. Maybe try guarding your privacy a little better. 
 

Edit to add:  Didn’t mean that to come across as dickheadish, but my general rule is unless I know I am going to be contacting a business or other organization by phone in the future I never give out my real number. 

Edited February 23 by Fudge Nuggets

[Tonesky 917]

23 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I don’t get those either. Maybe try guarding your privacy a little better. 
 

Edit to add:  Didn’t mean that to come across as dickheadish, but my general rule is unless I know I am going to be contacting a business or other organization by phone in the future I never give out my real number. 

No offense taken. Before your edit, I’d have hit you with a laugh rep emoji. 
 

I don’t give out my cell number freely, but once it’s out there, you are toast. 
 

The “buy your house” solicitations date to Harvey. “Investors” are buying outdated lists of flood home leads.  They come in waves as a new class graduates from their sucker real estate investment seminar. 

Edited February 23 by Tonesky

[dcbc 14413]

How many people over a certain age gave Facebook their phone number (for some long-ago-abandoned FB calling feature) and promptly forgot they did so.

 

Recovery phone number for an email account?

 

Nothing is free.

[Guest]

 

[TexPx 2319]

They probably targeted you off your voting history and used your name and address to link you to another source that had name, address and phone.  

I know the D running against Patterson. She told me please don’t vote in the R primary.
(Paraphrasing)
*Parties use this primary hard data to determine support, policy and candidates.
*Lessens choice of candidates because the numbers show there is no support
*Hard data will show D’s can’t get votes in your area
* You are publicly declaring you are a R
*Does no real good because you are either voting for a Paxton MAGA asshole or an Abbott MAGA asshole

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

But lobo assured me that’s the way to beat these fuckers.  We only need to get 700,000 individuals to work as one against a party that has been in total control for 30 years.

[dcbc 14413]

53 minutes ago, TexPx said:

I know the D running against Patterson. She told me please don’t vote in the R primary.
(Paraphrasing)
*Parties use this primary hard data to determine support, policy and candidates.
*Lessens choice of candidates because the numbers show there is no support
*Hard data will show D’s can’t get votes in your area
* You are publicly declaring you are a R
*Does no real good because you are either voting for a Paxton MAGA asshole or an Abbott MAGA asshole

Good.  I made the right decision then.  In-and-out in under 5 minutes.  Nice not to wear out my "nope" finger on the propositions.

[YGIFS 19449]

10 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

But lobo assured me that’s the way to beat these fuckers.  We only need to get 700,000 individuals to work as one against a party that has been in total control for 30 years.

It was just an idea that some anti-batshit GOP'ers agreed might be worth a try.  I have consistently admitted it's beyond a long-shot.  The only dumber play is to throw $50mm at Guitierrez or Allred and watch them fail spectacularly against Cruz.  When the money could have been way better spent on a few legit competitive house races in 3-4 districts.   You're absolutely correct, they've been in charge for 30 years and only grown more extreme and full of lunacy.  I know you don't agree, but there were some sane, moderate Republicans in high office that have left office that could re-primary some of these fucking assholes with the right resources.  And there are some Democrats who could at least win Courts of Appeal bench positions and the like.  But nope, let's all turn out the vote for Beto and Wendy Davis again in 2026 and light $75mm on fire that could have actually won some competitive races in purple races and effectuate some modicum of change.  

I understand your position and respect it, but if we've all noticed the horrendous extremist tilt to right-wing insanity over 30 years...I guess I just don't see how throwing money at more and more progressive Democratic candidates is the answer.  You beat the nutjob and shift things a little less extreme.  And then you beat that psycho.  And then it moves a little closer to center.  And then you beat that guy and get to middle of the spectrum and so on and so on.  It's just what my blood has in it.  You hurt the worst fucking person in the room with the tools in front of you and on and on and on from there.  I don't get the "Ted Cruz sucks so let's raise $50mm+ from out of state to lose to him by ten points and lose a buncha other shit in the process mentality."  I mean in all honesty, I respect sticking to your principles but that money ain't exactly free.  I busted my fucking ass and exhausted a lot of favors in 2020 to bundle almost $180,000 for Biden.  Because we had to deal with the tumor of the day.  And then we beat the next tumor and the next tumor.  And god willing, we don't die of the chemo.  

You have stronger conviction than I do, and that's saying something.  But in my middle age, I realize I'm Tommy from "Casino" when he's talking to that banker at Ace's house.  I'll work my ass off to beat the fuck outta the shithead in front of me.  And then they'll lock me up.  And when I get released, I'll find him and beat the fuck out of him again (insert a number of politician's names here).  And I'll do it again because I don't know any fucking better.  I'm trying to be nicer in my old age as a proud father of two wonderful girls but I have one gift and one gift alone.  I have a rare ability to find a weakness in bad people in business and make them suffer.  Figure why not try to carry it over into politics?

 

[tokamak 6352]

I vote in R primaries all the time. The average Democratic candidate tends to be acceptable to me. On the other hand, the R primary will usually be like 3 total lunatics and 1 functioning adult. Given that breakdown, the logical decision feels like voting in the R primary.

I do get a ton of very right-wing mail, but that's useful in its own way. I take the most unhinged stuff and use it as an (anti-)voting guide. If your mailer is touting an endorsement from Ken Paxton, then I know you ain't my guy. I'm sure my mail man thinks I'm a real piece of work, though.

[HRSchenker 2259]

My grandma lives in Kaufman County and keeps every political mailer they send her. This is the list of groups she's received "voter guides" from

• Kaufman County GOP
• Kaufman County GOP Club
• Kaufman County Conservative Club
• Kaufman County Conservative Republicans Club
• Kaufman County Republicans At Large
• Kaufman County Republicans For Freedom
• Kaufman County GOP For Freedom
• Texas Voters PAC
• Conservative Republicans Club

I'm not even sure if she still votes Republican anymore lol

[Pescado_Rojo 19331]

5 hours ago, Tonesky said:

No offense taken. Before your edit, I’d have hit you with a laugh rep emoji. 
 

I don’t give out my cell number freely, but once it’s out there, you are toast. 
 

The “buy your house” solicitations date to Harvey. “Investors” are buying outdated lists of flood home leads.  They come in waves as a new class graduates from their sucker real estate investment seminar. 

When I got divorced two years ago, I got several calls a day for a month or more. I guess the seminar told them to go to the court house and look for divorce filings, too.

[StassneyHorn 6540]

Friday night notes

Loving County is getting an early start on their voting fraud. With 129 voters registered there, 0 have participated in Dem primary and 26 have voted in Republican primary.  NBC News and even the NYTimes have had some good stories the last two years. Don't yell at me if you don't know how to get past a paywall.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/loving-county-texas-voter-fraud-claims-rcna35791

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/us/loving-county-texas.html - Had to include this cause of the Big Trouble in Little China headline

Every county that touches the Mexico border had the participation below.Went from south to west in order. I did not count horseshoe counties that are close to touching.


 

[Voldemort86 2259]

3 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

Friday night notes

Loving County is getting an early start on their voting fraud. With 129 voters registered there, 0 have participated in Dem primary and 26 have voted in Republican primary.  NBC News and even the NYTimes have had some good stories the last two years. Don't yell at me if you don't know how to get past a paywall.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/loving-county-texas-voter-fraud-claims-rcna35791

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/us/loving-county-texas.html - Had to include this cause of the Big Trouble in Little China headline

Every county that touches the Mexico border had the participation below.Went from south to west in order. I did not count horseshoe counties that are close to touching.


 

Thanks for compiling this.  Would be nice to know if lots of these “work a holic” type folks who blamed the dems for the lockdowns have since flipped back after they got jobs and have working lives again.

[StassneyHorn 6540]

Someone please let Dan Patrick know there is funny business going on in Philly, Loving County.
50 out of 129 registered voters for a whopping 39% of all voters cast after this weekend update.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13414]

On 2/23/2024 at 12:08 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:

 

Don't' know anything about this primary but I went to Liz Case's webpage from a google search. She reminds you 4 times in 8 paragraphs that she's descended from William Travis. Weird flex.

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Don't' know anything about this primary but I went to Liz Case's webpage from a google search. She reminds you 4 times in 8 paragraphs that she's descended from William Travis. Weird flex.

Never heard of him.

/s

Edited February 26 by FirstTimeCaller

[miguelito 11220]

On 2/23/2024 at 12:23 PM, TexPx said:

I know the D running against Patterson. She told me please don’t vote in the R primary.
(Paraphrasing)
*Parties use this primary hard data to determine support, policy and candidates.
*Lessens choice of candidates because the numbers show there is no support
*Hard data will show D’s can’t get votes in your area
* You are publicly declaring you are a R
*Does no real good because you are either voting for a Paxton MAGA asshole or an Abbott MAGA asshole

 

On 2/23/2024 at 1:47 PM, tokamak said:

I vote in R primaries all the time. The average Democratic candidate tends to be acceptable to me. On the other hand, the R primary will usually be like 3 total lunatics and 1 functioning adult. Given that breakdown, the logical decision feels like voting in the R primary.

I do get a ton of very right-wing mail, but that's useful in its own way. I take the most unhinged stuff and use it as an (anti-)voting guide. If your mailer is touting an endorsement from Ken Paxton, then I know you ain't my guy. I'm sure my mail man thinks I'm a real piece of work, though.

 

This is my dilemma.  I'm in a solid R area.  So do I vote in the R primary to support the least worst candidates, or in the D primary to give the overall party a boost?

[tokamak 6352]

The TDP is pretty worthless indeed if it hasn’t occurred to them that a significant number of their voters are voting in Republican primaries. 

[Guest]

49 minutes ago, miguelito said:

 

 

This is my dilemma.  I'm in a solid R area.  So do I vote in the R primary to support the least worst candidates, or in the D primary to give the overall party a boost?

Serious question -- is there a least worst candidate?

Seems like the guys that voted for things like Paxton impeachment and against school vouchers are anything but moderate. Hell, I'm rooting for Phelan in this battle and he is still a driving force behind open carry and abortion bans.

[cactusflinthead 27594]

On 2/23/2024 at 1:47 PM, tokamak said:

I vote in R primaries all the time. The average Democratic candidate tends to be acceptable to me. On the other hand, the R primary will usually be like 3 total lunatics and 1 functioning adult. Given that breakdown, the logical decision feels like voting in the R primary.

I do get a ton of very right-wing mail, but that's useful in its own way. I take the most unhinged stuff and use it as an (anti-)voting guide. If your mailer is touting an endorsement from Ken Paxton, then I know you ain't my guy. I'm sure my mail man thinks I'm a real piece of work, though.

I said it in another thread, but it's a real possibility that instead of a somewhat reasonable human being I have a totally batshit insane fucker in the pocket of Dunn and Wilks. So I am going to be voting for Stucky over Hopper.

Then there's this.

Walker vs this guy.

Earlier this month, the Tribune reported that Devine did not recuse himself in a high-profile sex abuse lawsuit against Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler and his former law partner Jared Woodfill. The plaintiff in the case, a former employee of Woodfill and Pressler’s firm, said he was sexually abused by Pressler at the same time that Devine also worked for the firm.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/27/john-devine-texas-supreme-court-conservatives/

Stucky might get down to less than a hundred votes. I'm not fucking around. Dems know that I am going to give money, but I know that it's a long shot for whoever is opposing the R in my local house race. There's also Holland v. Pierson, yes that Pierson, over in Rockwall. 100% chance of me doing the same over there. Another similar race in Sherman. Dunn and Wilks are targeting these people, that's good enough for me.

[HRSchenker 2259]

8 day campaign reports were due yesterday. Joshua Feuerstein is still refusing to report his donors and expenditures. Of course he's the Paxton candidate in that district. 

[YGIFS 19449]

15 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

8 day campaign reports were due yesterday. Joshua Feuerstein is still refusing to report his donors and expenditures. Of course he's the Paxton candidate in that district. 

It takes awhile for to translate the cartel donations to clear the laundry.

[CBT 1281]

3 hours ago, miguelito said:

 

 

This is my dilemma.  I'm in a solid R area.  So do I vote in the R primary to support the least worst candidates, or in the D primary to give the overall party a boost?

Are there other issues that could factor in. I am in a GOP strong hold, but our rep is one of the sane anti-vouchers republicans that Abbott etc are going after. Voting in the R primary just to support him is worth it.

[YGIFS 19449]

Yeah, we're in a part of Austin that is in a couple of competitive judicial races.  But 80% of our races are foregone conclusions.  Our particular precinct is often examined by consultants and beta-tested for shit because we're a blue sliver in a very red part of town in an overall deep blue city and just literally a couple of miles away from a deep red county in Hays and then Burnet County.  If you can win our precinct in anything from Council to Congress, you'll very likely win the whole damn thing.  But again, only a few of the races are well-contested.  But I really wish more Texans would take advantage of our primary system and use it to hurt bad people instead of voting in meaningless, mainly performative races.  

[TexPx 2319]

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2022-02-28/some-democrats-are-voting-in-the-texas-gop-primaries-will-it-make-a-difference

[YGIFS 19449]

But I was assured this wouldn't be a thing.  At least the idea is getting some press, to be fair.  Won't make a difference this cycle but could inspire more to try and move the needle next time or the time after that.  Which of course means they'll close that loophole and lock it all down.  Sometimes my batshit rants have legs.  Rarely, but sometimes.  

[tx 3 putt 76414]

 

[Voldemort86 2259]

12 hours ago, TexPx said:

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2022-02-28/some-democrats-are-voting-in-the-texas-gop-primaries-will-it-make-a-difference

Of course there’s a TX democrat party operative idiot in there telling us not to.  I’ve been voting this way for 10 years. I think the point is to just vote against people you hate as much as possible. 
 

I vote against bathroom Dan, indictment Paxton, and hot wheels Abbott several times a cycle and I love doing it.  They’re a joke.

[South Austin 52152]

15 hours ago, YGIFS said:

just literally a couple of miles away from a deep red county in Hays 

Not so sure about that anymore.

9 out of 10 midterm races won by Democrats in Hays County

[YGIFS 19449]

Well that’s encouraging.  I forget about the younger parts of that county as we butt up to the really red part of it.  I was told there would be no demography maths.

i was just re reading the R ballot initiatives/props and then comparing it to the purposely obfuscative language the city of Austin uses on its bond props.  
 

This is getting fucking surreal. 

[1978horn 880]

Not so sure about that anymore.
9 out of 10 midterm races won by Democrats in Hays County

Yeah, it’s why Carrie Issac introduced a bill to ban voting on higher ed campuses. It’s a “security” issue.

There is a race right now in Hays that is getting really chippy. I’m worried about Dems getting upset about their candidate not winning the primary and sitting out in November.

[cactusflinthead 27594]

[tx 3 putt 76414]

#voted

62 races on my harris county dem ballot 

[berlinerbaer 670]

On 2/28/2024 at 2:07 AM, Voldemort86 said:

Of course there’s a TX democrat party operative idiot in there telling us not to.  I’ve been voting this way for 10 years. I think the point is to just vote against people you hate as much as possible. 
 

I vote against bathroom Dan, indictment Paxton, and hot wheels Abbott several times a cycle and I love doing it.  They’re a joke.

I'm considering voting in an R primary for the first time ever, just to stick it to Cheeto, Rafael, etc, but I'm not willing to go down that path if I'll get my mailbox filled with batshit GOP flyer trash. What has been peoples' experience?

[texasdago 7553]

On 2/28/2024 at 12:50 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

Just got back from Houston... got so sick of seeing political commercials, half of them with Greg's face yapping away with his weird cadence 

[SydneyCarton 47889]

1 minute ago, texasdago said:

Just got back from Houston... got so sick of seeing political commercials, half of them with Greg's face yapping away with his weird cadence 

They don't have political commercials in Austin?

[texasdago 7553]

2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

They don't have political commercials in Austin?

Sure they do... but seemed like I saw more in Houston and they were definitely more MAGA oriented although the Kim Ogg ones were hilarious from both sides.  

[WBT 20424]

On 2/28/2024 at 2:07 AM, Voldemort86 said:

I think the point is to just vote against people you hate as much as possible. 
 

I vote against bathroom Dan, indictment Paxton, and hot wheels Abbott several times a cycle and I love doing it.  They’re a joke.

[SydneyCarton 47889]

22 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Sure they do... but seemed like I saw more in Houston and they were definitely more MAGA oriented although the Kim Ogg ones were hilarious from both sides.  

Odd considering Houston is as blue as Austin. 
 

fuck ogg. 

[Texas73 420]

56 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Odd considering Houston is as blue as Austin. 
 

fuck ogg. 

Austin is much bluer than Houston.  In the 2020 presidential election:

Harris county: 56% - 43% 

Travis county:  71% - 26%

[Your Mom 4797]

On 2/26/2024 at 9:33 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Don't' know anything about this primary but I went to Liz Case's webpage from a google search. She reminds you 4 times in 8 paragraphs that she's descended from William Travis. Weird flex.

Her opponent probably laughs at that and claims to only be descended from winners.   

[BearSchlong 8077]

Seems to me that some of you assholes need to get involved in Texas politics and help develop the bench.  It is infuriating, but seems like that is what a lot of us should be doing.

Brisket is my campaign manager when I file as a D for Texas 21. A few weeks back God told him to tell me to run. I hope he remembers. And I hope you all donate to my campaign. We will keep Mary Bond away from the money this time.

Seriously, this district is a bloodbath at the moment. People have been indicated (sic) for making terroristic threats at Phelan. His opponent is a lying piece of shit, and the local news in unwatchable due to the negative campaign ads. I stopped by my other house to check the mail as I was out of town for 10 days and not only were there rolled up flyers stuffed into my door handle, the mailbox was stuffed with at least a dozen 11x17 glossies.

David Covey seems like a real lying shitbag, as evidenced by the MAGA hat-wearing mouth breathers that walked up my driveway to start an argument. If I were Dade I would have pulled a pistol and stuck it in Covey’s nose and said “if your goons ever set foot in my house again and threaten my wife again I'll kill you, just like I would have done under the castle doctrine if I had been home the day it happened.

And whoever is running Ernest Bailes opposition is pure evil.

In short, I want tfg to experience serious 2nd-degree radiation burns throughout his soft tissue. Death would be too kind for what he has done to the country.

[Huckleberry 32704]

1 hour ago, Texas73 said:

Austin is much bluer than Houston.  In the 2020 presidential election:

Harris county: 56% - 43% 

Travis county:  71% - 26%

Not sure that is an accurate reflection of Houston versus Austin. Austin is 76% of the population of Travis County. Houston is about 50% of Harris. 

Add that to the Houston suburbs seeming redder than Austin's and those numbers above track to Houston being at least roughly as Democratic leaning as Austin. 

Edited March 1 by Huckleberry

[tokamak 6352]

Yeah Harris County has a shitload of aggys in Cypress, Katy, etc. 

[tx 3 putt 76414]

2 hours ago, Texas73 said:

Austin is much bluer than Houston.  In the 2020 presidential election:

Harris county: 56% - 43% 

Travis county:  71% - 26%

if harris county dems could pull 71%, we retake the state

[tx 3 putt 76414]

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21066]

Just punch the old fart in the jaw and knock him the fuck out. 

[Guest]

The Garza/Sylestine fight seems to be heating up. Anyone know the % of total votes that come on election day versus early voting? 

When I voted on the first day of the primary, I hadn't seen a single ad for either of them. Now that election day is coming up, I'm starting to see them. But what percentage of voters have already cast their ballot?