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TexasTowelie

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Thu May 29, 2014, 12:12 AM May 2014

GOP Voters Managed To Nominate Just One Woman For 50 Races In Texas

Texas Republicans will have just one woman on their ticket for the 50 congressional, statewide and top judicial races this fall.

The Dallas Morning News reports that Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), who is running for a 10th term, is the sole woman left standing after GOP voters finished the final round of elections for its nominees Tuesday.

"I would tell you I've had discussions with elected officials and party leaders about this very issue," Texas GOP Chairman Steve Munisteri told the paper. "Frankly, it is a concern."

Conservative candidate Lisa Fritsch, who unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for governor, also lamented during her campaign that the GOP had become "the party of all these men and the same old recycled candidates."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/28/texas-gop-women_n_5405995.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

[font color=red]"Dang them women with them radical ideas!"[/font]

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The new TX GOP, winning hearts and minds of minorities and women everywhere they go. hobbit709 May 2014 #1
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