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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalDemocrats see signs of change for Fort Bend
We are making progress in my county. http://tablet.olivesoftware.com/Olive/Tablet/HoustonChronicle/SharedArticle.aspx?href=HHC%2F2014%2F10%2F26&id=Ar03501
To Donald Bankston, the Fort Bend Democratic chairman, it’s inevitable that his party will regain dominance.
“There’s been a seismic shift in the demographics,” he said. “If this was a highly voting county, this county would be reliably Democratic.”
U.S. Census figures show the share of the population that is non-Hispanic white went from 54 percent in 1990 to 36 percent in 2013. As Latino, African-American and Asian voters tend to lean liberal, Bankston hopes they will turn out at the polls as reliably as whites do, giving his party a fighting chance.
BTW, Fort Bend County chair is known on this board by some as Bubba or Mr. Juanita Jean. The key thing is that the Fort Bend County Democrats are focusing on voters who voted in 2012 but who did not vote in 2010
“It’s not rocket science,” he said. “We are limited in time, people and money, so we have to effectively focus on who is most likely to be an effective voter.”
It is going to be an interesting election
Houston Area DUers-Congressman Al Green rally and march against Voter Suppression
Congressman Al Green is having a rally and march against voter suppression efforts and the rulings of the Roberts court tomorrow, October 25, 2014 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 8686 Kirby Drive, Houston, Tx 77054 (next to NRG Park). There will be a march at 12:30 to an early voting polling location.
My family and I plan to attend. Congressman Green spoke to the Fort Bend Democrats on Saturday and he is very passionate about this issue.
Please come out and we can have a mini-DU meet up.
Texas Democratic Party Voter Id Assistant Program-How to help voters without voter ids
I am volunteering with the Texas Democratic Party and the DNC Voter Expansion Project on a project called the voter id assistant program where the TDP is training people to help voters obtain the needed voter id to vote. You can volunteer for this project at this address http://act.txdemocrats.org/page/s/texas-voter-expansion-project
If you know anyone who needs help getting an id, call the Texas Democratic Party Hotline 1-844-TXVOTES (1-844-898-6837) or e-mail voterid@txdemocrats.org We are also coordinating with Battleground Texas on voter protection issues.
If you can get a voter to go to their local county clerk's office during business hours, any voter who was born in Texas can get a birth certificate from any county clerk's office for $2 or $3 and use that birth certificate to get an Election Identification Certificate with two other pieces of id such as a voter registration card.
We need to help as many people as possible vote. If you e-mail the above address or call the hot line you will find help. Again, I am working on this project and I plan to help as many people as possible to get ids.
At Last Gubernatorial Debate, Davis Outperforms Abbott
This is one of the better accounts of last night's debate between Abbott and Wendy Davis http://www.texasobserver.org/last-gubernatorial-debate-davis-outperforms-abbott/
If you only have time to watch one of the three major debates this election cycle, you should make it tonight’s debate in Dallas. If you’re pulling for Wendy Davis to do well, you’ll enjoy it. But it’s worth watching because something strange happened tonight: Like the sky opening up after a monsoon season of turgid talking points, Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott actually took each other on tonight, to a certain extent. And against all odds, something approximating a discussion about policy took place. Call it the Miracle at KERA....
But things got better. Davis and Abbott grappled with each other on two wide fronts—the first, over ethics issues. Davis was asked about her legal work, which she rebuffed and went through the list of accumulated attack lines about Abbott’s tenure as AG. (She gave a stronger refutation of the conflict-of-interest charge after she was pressed.)
But when Abbott was asked (at about 19:45 in the video) about accusations his office helped hide incompetence and mismanagement with Gov. Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund, he didn’t handle it very well. He offered that the recently issued audit of the fund didn’t single him out for criticism. “From the beginning of my campaign I’ve been questioning this very fund,” he said. (Perhaps, one suspects, because he knew how badly it was being run.) He tried to turn the question back to Davis, but she beat it back forcefully. As to the question of why Abbott’s office helped hide non-existing TEF applications from reporters, he couldn’t really answer.
I was very pleased with Wendy Davis' performance last night. She held Abbott's accountable for a great deal. Her comeback on Abbott's attempt to turn the Texas Enterprise Fund attack around was perfect. Abbott did not handle being questioned by the moderators well.
I was pleased with the debate.
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