Posted on 10/25/2015 7:08:09 AM PDT by magna carta
A veto referendum on the anti-discrimination ordinance known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) will be on the ballot for Houston voters in Harris County, Texas on November 3, 2015. It’s controversial for two significant reasons and is the result of a several year battle between the residents of Houston and its outgoing lesbian mayor Annise Parker.
Despite protections already provided by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Proposition 1 on the ballot reads:
Read more at http://constitution.com/hero-zero-protection-for-womens-girls-rights/
(Excerpt) Read more at constitution.com ...
It’s about homosexualist rights and nothing but.
Mayor and 2 homosexual councilmenwomen see it that way too.
And it is a 36 page law. It is NOT the same statute that is in other cities.
She didn’t want to let the public vote against the red light cameras either.
I have read that the perverts are winning in the polls by a lot also! Hope that’s not true.
Texas: The State to which conservatives want to flee.
The mayor’s race has received nothing but yawns. The goal among conservatives is the find the most moderate of the Democrats to vote for (it is an open election and Republicans rarely run).
Without the mayor’s race to draw people to the polls, 16% of the population can determine the outcome.
Only one mayoral candidate spoke out against it, another one straddles the line and just says it isn’t needed. The others openly embrace it.
I’m working the elections and I can honestly tell you that many voters cannot even discern the issue given the ballot language. It is a very legitimate complaint. Many voters are coming to respond but cannot even tell if its the right PROP. Some have backed out of the vote to return home and study and come back to vote later. I cannot and do not say a word but just my observances here.Many voting booths are cancelled as a result.
I read it’s 50-50.
Sounds like it’ll be defeated, because people are more likely to vote to see it fail.
Polling indicated voters are heavily against it.
Miss Mayor told people (voters) to stay off the roads this weekend because of the rain. This was the last weekend of early voting...
They’re heavily against the bathroom bill? Interesting, because another article I read said they’re 50-50. Guess that site’s for the bathroom bill. From what the mayor spouted about staying off the roads, she knows it’s going to be heavily defeated. Maybe she’ll kill herself because of the anguish (I wish, I wish).
She is against the voters having a say on matters, period. She fought against the voters having a say on the red light cameras as well (they voted them out and she still tried to fight it afterwards).
And opposition to the bill may not be enough to drive people to the polls. 20% turnout would be dominated by the homosexualist contingent.
The mayor’s race is certainly headed for a runoff. Some votes may sit out this round.
City council gets no news coverage here (and the number of seats got increased, diminishing the power any single councilman has). It may not drive people to the polls either.
There are 2 other prop 1 initiatives on the ballot (I hear). One for the county and one for the state.
Minorities are being told that the HOMO ordinance protects them from discrimination. Maybe there is expanded protection for illegal immigrants, I don’t know. I also don’t know how the ballot language varies as this proposition is written in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.
Unfortunately, this is the case in most local politics, where the conservative apathy gives way to easy pickings by energized, motivated, organized leftists. Conservatives never know what hit them until it's too late.
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