Posted on 03/02/2020 3:41:06 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
I find it interesting the vast spread of points of view or working perspective in what is really important for each party to put forth as their Convention Propositions. Let me share what you will find at the end of your ballot Tuesday, depending on which Party you select to vote in. Your sneak peek at the other ballot.
DEMOCRAT
Right to Healthcare
Should everyone in Texas have a right to quality healthcare, protected by a universally accessible Medicare-style system that saves rural hospitals, reduces the cost of prescription drugs, and guarantees access to reproductive healthcare?
Right to a 21st Century Public Education
Should everyone in Texas, have the right to high quality public education from pre-K to 12th grade, and affordable college and career training without the burden of crushing student loan debt?
Right to Clean Air, Safe Water, and a Responsive Climate Policy
Should everyone in Texas have the right to clean air, safe water, affordable and sustainable alternative energy sources, and a responsible climate policy that recognizes and addresses the climate crisis as a real and serious threat that impacts every aspect of life on this planet?
Right to Economic Security
Should everyone in Texas have the right to economic security, where all workers have earned paid family and sick leave, training to prepare for future economies, and a living wage that respects their hard work?
Right to Dignity & Respect
Should everyone in Texas have the right to a life of dignity and respect, free from discrimination and harassment anywhere, including businesses and public facilities, no matter how they identify, the color of their skin, whom they love, socioeconomic status, disability status, housing status, or from where they come?
Right to Be Free from Violence
Should everyone in Texas have the right to live a life free from violence – gun violence, racial hatred, terrorism, domestic violence, bullying, harassment or sexual assault – so Texans can grow in a safe environment?
Right to Housing
Should everyone in Texas have the right to affordable and accessible housing and modern utilities (electricity, water, gas, and high-speed internet) free from any form of discrimination?
Right to Vote
Should every eligible Texan have the right to vote, made easier by automatic voter registration, the option to vote by mail, guaranteed early and mobile voting stations, and a state election holiday – free from corporate campaign influence, foreign and domestic interference, and gerrymandering?
Right to a Fair Criminal Justice System
Should everyone in Texas have the right to a fair criminal justice system that treats people equally, uses proven methods for de-escalating situations instead of excessive force, and puts an end to the mass and disproportionate incarceration of people of color for minor offenses?
Immigrant Rights
Should there be a just and fair comprehensive immigration reform solution that includes an earned path to citizenship for law-abiding immigrants and their children, keeps families together, protects DREAMers, and provides workforce solutions for businesses?
Right to Fair Taxation
Should Texas establish equitable taxation for people at all income levels and for businesses and corporations, large and small, so our state government can fund our educational, social, infrastructure, business, and all government services to improve programs necessary for all Texans to thrive?
REPUBLICAN
First Amendment Rights
Texas should not restrict or prohibit prayer in public schools.
Second Amendment Rights
Texas should reject restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms
Ending Taxpayer funded Lobbyist
Texas should ban the practice of taxpayer-funded lobbying, which allows your tax dollars to be spent on lobbyists who work against the taxpayer.
Border Wall
Texas should support the construction of a physical barrier and use existing defense-grade surveillance equipment along the entire southern border of Texas.
Parental Rights A
Texas parents or legal guardians of public school children under the age of 18 should be the sole decision makers for all their children’s healthcare decisions including, but not limited to, psychological assessment and treatment, contraception, and sex education.
Parental Rights B
Texas should ban chemical castration, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgery on all minor children for transition purposes, given that Texas children as young as three (3) are being transitioned from their biological sex to the opposite sex.
History
Texans should protect and preserve all historical monuments, artifacts, and buildings, such as the Alamo Cenotaph and our beloved Alamo, and should oppose any re-imagining of the Alamo site.
Voter Integrity
Texas election officials should have the directives of the Office of the Governor to purge illegal voters from the voter rolls and verify that each new registered voter is a U.S. citizen.
Bail Reform
Bail in Texas should be based only on a person’s danger to society and risks of flight, not that person’s ability to pay.
Term Limits
Texas should limit our state legislators’ terms to 12 years.
It appears that the Democrats feel they HAVE A RIGHT to a lot of things. My question is always, how are you going to pay for it?
Democrats.. . The right of the party to run & ruin your life.
Republican... Freedom.
Should everyone in Texas have a right to quality healthcare
OUTSTANDING post. Thanks. It’s about time we got some stated separation from the UNIPARTARIAN criminals.
My question is always, how are you going to pay for it?
How are they going to COMPEL it?
When they run out of other people’s money, they turn to compelling.
Remember the Alamo! remember the republic?
Seems to me the original Bill of Rights covers the entire Democrat mantra of rights for this and that. Is it because they know that under the Trump administration, ALL of these so-called rights will be covered under sound, reasonable plans proposed by Trump and the Repubs? They just want to get their name on it? Another thing I find interesting is in reference to immigration, it goes to ‘eligible’ Texans.... those law-abiding immigrants and families. Is this not already immigration policy? Or are they talking about those who came ILLEGALLY but never committed a felony crime? Huge difference. Lipstick on a pig.
Seems to be great similarity between the democrat ideas and those written into the laws of the old USSR
Prog run universally accessible Medicare-style system will not do anything the above quote indicates but it WILL give them control over you life.
Typical prog guilting through the straw-man arguments that "everyone agrees" to this or that.
Reality is few actually agree with their warped ideas.
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*** History
Texans should protect and preserve all historical monuments, artifacts, and buildings, such as the Alamo Cenotaph and our beloved Alamo, and should oppose any re-imagining of the Alamo site. ***
Uh, the Republican Land Commissioner, George P Bush is the asshat reimagining the Alamo.
*** Remember the Alamo! remember the republic? ***
Remember Jorge P Boosh, our Land Commissioner.
Pierce Bush is running for Congress in TX 22, IIRC.
Interesting that the rats put “gerrymandering” into their “right to vote” item. The national rats have poured millions into Texas since the 2018 election. (I think I recall 18 mil on the national rat budget in 2019 then more in 2020) Sole stated purpose of adding extra out of state $$ is to gain the Texas house and do their own gerrymandered redistricting after the 2020 census. That is their stated plan for flipping Texas.
They include illegals. They do not distinguish between legal Texans and illegal aliens.
Yep - freedom vs slavery
Yes. Yes he is. And we desperately need an appropriate conservative replacement!
“Scary!”
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My former Pastor advised me to read over the ballot really carefully. He said some of them are written to fool.
We’re in Texas. We’re used to Democrats attempting to snooker us. The occasional Republican tries cr*ap, too, unfortunately. We try to eliminate (vote out!) them quickly. LOL
Thanks for that info, sockmonkey. Rules for changing a republic into family oligarchies...
Where’s punching bag dubya educating us about the WMD virus? Fat man, little boy, tiny germ. Where are the lefties protesting around the L4 labs? $0R0$ checks didn’t clear from the last protest?
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