I would love for them to try and stop me from voting.
I would love for them to try and stop me from voting.
True story: My husband in a wheelchair faced down the Black Pathers with hoods over their faces and carrying shotguns.
He was a Texas Republican county chair and we were at the Republican state convention in Houston. Due to a bone problem, he couldn’t walk those long distances so we had a motorized wheelchair for him.
We came back from lunch one day and went through a small park in front of the convention center to get to the front door. I went ahead of him and went inside the building.
He was still on the path and approaching the street to cross to get in the building. Black Panthers with hoods and shotguns surrounded him, preventing him from crossing the walkway. Now, Bill had on a cap that said, “Jail To The Chief” (Clinton was president).
Well, Bill started shaking his finger at the Panthers and yelling at them they shouldn’t have shotguns and hoods and to get out.
Police across the street just stood there, did nothing. News cameras started rolling. They had locked down the building and I couldn’t get out - I would have beaten them to death for messing with my husband.
So, it was a stand off. A not large man, a Texas Ranger, crossed the street into the Panthers and told them to get out of Bill’s way and leave that area.
They did - one problem, one Ranger.
That night, Bill in his wheelchair with his cap was shown on TV, surrounded by Panthers while he was yelling at them to leave.
That story about Bill and the Panthers is still told among Republicans. Bill died last August.