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HOUSTON MAYOR BACKS OFF FROM SUBPOENAS TO PASTORS
Breitbart-Texas ^ | October 15, 2014 | Sarah Rumpf

Posted on 10/15/2014 10:35:49 PM PDT by This Just In

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To: Ray76

Stadtpräsident Annise Parker hasn’t received the necessary support from Herr Holder.


141 posted on 10/19/2014 10:54:05 AM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Indeed. C.S. Lewis was thinking of folks like Parker and her fellow travelers when he wrote this:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”


142 posted on 10/19/2014 1:03:20 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

143 posted on 10/19/2014 3:02:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: This Just In

Arrest the mayor for treason


144 posted on 10/19/2014 5:46:05 PM PDT by Carry me back
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To: Impy; Clintonfatigued

RE “This is Sparta”

Not yet, it’s not. She’s still in office.


145 posted on 10/20/2014 6:19:53 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Boiler Plate

“[Churches] cannot speak out on political issues.”

This isn’t entirely accurate. Churches and their ministers can take positions on issues of public policy as long as those positions do not cross over into advocacy of a particular candidate for office. The IRS regulations are here:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf


146 posted on 10/20/2014 6:54:51 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: This Just In

This is exactly what happens when the mental derangement of a dyke takes over a political office. Why is any normal person surprised.


147 posted on 10/20/2014 6:59:34 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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148 posted on 10/20/2014 7:06:59 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: riverdawg

Thanks. Then it looks like the Mayor is out of line here, correct?


149 posted on 10/20/2014 8:43:07 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate
Correct, in my humble non-lawyer’s opinion.
150 posted on 10/20/2014 10:19:02 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; Clintonfatigued

Thankfully she’s term-limited. Three two-year terms.

Houston hasn’t had a Republican Mayor since Jim McConn, who was defeated for reelection in 1981 (placed 3rd to 2 rats and failed to make the runoff). And GOP hasn’t come close since Orlando Sanchez lost narrowly in 2001. He’s currently the Harris County Treasurer, maybe he should give it another go in 2015.


151 posted on 10/20/2014 1:57:06 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Impy; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; Clintonfatigued

The GOP should have drawn a couple of GOP-leaning, Hispanic-majority congressional districts in Harris County, where Orlando Sanchez and another Hispanic Republican could have been elected. (Such a small percentage of Houston Hispanics are eligible to vote that a 60%-Hispanic CD that is half in the suburbs would have a GOP majority.)


152 posted on 10/20/2014 2:12:00 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

That sounds like a good idea.


153 posted on 10/20/2014 2:28:29 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: This Just In

And whoever participated in this assault on the First Amendment should be reported to the State Bar for disciplinary action

Violations of oath = disbarment


154 posted on 10/20/2014 2:47:39 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
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To: Impy; AuH2ORepublican

I think there’s some confusion over that. McConn was listed in other sources as a Democrat. I was under the impression that Houston hasn’t had a Republican Mayor since Reconstruction.


155 posted on 10/20/2014 6:31:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

McConn.... Can’t speak the correctness of the info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McConn


156 posted on 10/20/2014 6:36:28 PM PDT by deport
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To: fieldmarshaldj; deport; NFHale; BillyBoy; Clintonfatigued

Weird, Wikipedia says he’s a Republican but gives no source.

Our campaigns doesn’t list a party for him.


157 posted on 10/20/2014 7:47:46 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Impy

Some discussion site on Houston politics said McConn was a Republican, as was his 1977 opponent, Frank Briscoe, but McConn won because he was to the left of Briscoe and got Dem support in the runoff.

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/22723-mayor-politics/


158 posted on 10/20/2014 7:59:48 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

A Frank “Chip” Briscoe Jr. is the rat nominee this year in CD 22.

His bio mentions his family has “been in the DA’s office”, but he seems to be talking about Ford Bend County.


159 posted on 10/20/2014 8:17:25 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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