Women’s Health Program: Money isn’t the problem
A recent story in the Houston Chronicle, by Peggy Fikac, explains how the women’s health program will be funded. According to the story:
The state plans to use funds from a Medicaid fraud crackdown and services deemed unnecessary, plus a hiring freeze on administrative positions in health and human services to pay for the $40.1 million program.
The rest will come from savings due to eligibility-system changes, an overtime reduction and state money appropriated for the program before Texas got on the wrong side of the federal government by banning Planned Parenthood and other clinics affiliated with abortion providers.
While this is certainly good news, it does not come close to solving the problem of how the Women’s Health Program will provide services to its clients. The problem has never been the money. The problem is the providers–or the lack thereof. Planned Parenthood was providing most of the health care services, so the question is, Who will take the place of Planned Parenthood? There aren’t very many options. One is FQHC’s (Federally Qualified Health Centers). Another is emergency rooms. The problem with the former is that the purpose of FQHC’s is to treat sick people. The problem with the latter is that providers are busy treating emergencies and don’t have time to deal with dispensing birth control pills and offering cancer screenings. The fundamental issue is this: As long as Planned Parenthood was around, women in need of services knew where to go to get the help they needed. (And, no, I’m not talking about abortions.) Now they don’t know where to go. That may be the fatal weakness of the program–and it doesn’t bode well for women.
Tagged: women's health program
John Johnson says:
Send the women the same place that men go for condoms, cholesterol and prostate screenings. Oh, men don’t have a special place to go where they can get treated free of charge? Why not?
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Alan Reply:
June 25th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Condoms don’t require a prescription like birth control pills do.
Cholesterol is not a male-specific problem.
Prostate cancer is one of the least pressing public health issues you could possibly come up with. Most men who get it are in their 70s or older and usually die of something else before it poses a problem.
Stop being ignorant.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
June 25th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Planned Parenthood is all about abortion, don’t let anyone tell you different. If it wasn’t they would just drop abortion services and let someone else do it.
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Anonymous Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 7:15 am
Really, like who? More ignorance on display.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 3:17 am
People not sucking off the government tit.
Willie James Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 9:30 am
Oh, Robert. Don’t let the facts confuse you.
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Alan Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Robert, tell me what percentage of PP’s resources are devoted to providing abortions? It’s not the 90% that Jon “That-Wasn’t-Meant-to-be-a-Factual-Statement” Kyl said on the floor of the Senate.
Abortions are exactly what responsible people want them to be – safe, legal and uncommon.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 3:15 am
Why would an organization scream bloody murder so much about being government funded … if only 3% of its mission related to abortion services?
The simple easy thing would be to COMPLETELY DROP abortion services rather than getting hysterical about being de-funded.
But the real mission of Planned Parenthood is suck those little baby brains out, chop up the body parts and dump them in a trash can. That little 3% just shows you how important ABORTION is to Planned Parenthood. ABORTION is a “must have” to the mission of Planed Parenthood.
Btw, I am for legal abortion rights – why don’t you guys (or womyn) go into private abortion services instead of sucking off the government tit?
Anonymous Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 6:52 am
You still sucking on the government teat by using all that stolen water in lake Travis Robert ??
Anonymous Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
I think we should go back to screwing our bosses and having coat hanger abortions and smoking in the office.
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Anonymous Reply:
June 30th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Really, when was the last time you were there?
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Ben Quick Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
I don’t think you know anything about the program or the people it serves – you are simply myopic about the issue of “abortion” – no other issue affects you
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facts get in the way of rant Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Men can get vasectomies at Planned Parenthood.
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Arturo says:
Oh, John, please. Ignorance of healthcare is one thing, but petty arguments that endanger women because of some medieval ideology is another. Planned Parent hood provided a needed service as was punished by the “new inquisition”. Shameful.
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John Johnson says:
Sharp retort, Arturo. Just what I expected. I’m ignorant because I raised the question? Shouldn’t men get some sort of Title IX type protection?
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Pat Reply:
June 25th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
No, they shouldn’t. Men do not have the same highly-sensitive and specialized reproductive health needs as women.
And Title IX only applies to educational programs and activities. Healthcare was never included for obvious reasons.
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Anonymous Reply:
June 25th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
You mean men don’t need abortions?
“Title IX type protection”, not “Protection under Title IX”.
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Anonymous Reply:
June 25th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Looks like JJ has been overly influenced by jbb.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:43 am
“Looks like JJ has been overly influenced by jbb.”
and that is a good thing.
John Johnson Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 8:20 am
Only those entrenched in, and blinded by, far left ideology would fail to see that JBB often states valid points. His style is meant to irritate and raise the blood pressure of you liberals, and he is very, very good at it.
I don’t agree with everything he says. The 42 percenters, like me, seem to rationalize a bit more, look at issues from both sides, and do not have a problem with occasionaly saying, “You know what, he’s right”.
While stating this, I will announce that I am voting for Democratic Wendy Davis again for senator from Dist. 10. I will once again have one of her 4′x4′signs in my yard encouraging others to do the same. I don’t agree with everything she stands for from a social prespective, but I know that she listens to her constituents and is a voice for we commonbreds against the Big’s who regularly buy votes.
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Anonymous Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 9:10 am
A stopped clock is correct twice as often as jbb. His comments are a combination of outright lies and bullshit. You can search through the turds he produces looking for that elusive single kernel of corn if you want, but I think you’ll be alone in that task.
The Mustache That Dare Not Speak Its Name Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Oh, please. JBB is an intellectually dishonest imbecile and a troll. There’s no shortage of good conservative commentary out there, but he provides none of it. The fact that you are impressed with him says more about you than it does about anyone else.
And thanks for voting for Sen. Davis. Broken (analog) clocks and all, I guess.
John Johnson Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
There’s no middle ground with either of you. You are lost to me and anyone else who has positions you disagree with… a waste of time is the proper term.
JBB goes out of his way to express himself in the most crass of terms because he revels in getting under your skin. He is a master at it, as your rapid, indignant, retorts confirm.
He is no dummy. Hidden in all his comments and responses is knowledge and conviction derived from lots of reading and research. I don’t agree with all of his positions, but I respect the fact that he comes prepared. On occasion, I don’t, and many of you don’t either.
Anonymous Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Your response only serves to confirm Mustache’s statement about you. I don’t believe he gets under anyone skin. For the most part his babblings are ignored. And before you use this post as a counter argument to his postings being ignored remember, I’m responding to you, not jbb.
The Mustache That Dare Not Speak Its Name Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
John, with regard to positions I disagree with, I mentioned that there is no shortage of good conservative commentary out there. If your reading comprehension skills were worth a damn, you would see that as an indicator of openness to other viewpoints. Also, the very definition of a troll is someone who argues in bad faith and with the primary goal of annoying others. So your comments serve to prove my point on that note regarding JBB.
Thanks for playing.
John Johnson Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Oh, come on Mustache…the game you are now playing is “Who you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?” Saying that “there is no shortage of good conservative comment” is one thing; never acknowledging it when you see it is another.
And as for your buddy, Anny, who you are riding piggyback…a response would be a total waste.
I don’t know if he has ever posted a salient point since he chooses to go incognito.
Is that you, Mother?
Anonymous Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Geez Mustache, don’t you know that jj is the arbiter of all things reasonable? Plus he’s a doctor as you can tell by his extremely intelligent first comment on this posting.
So, if you don’t agree that jbb presents good arguments then you are lying about your intentions.
Anon Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
JBB lost his credibility on this blog long ago. When he does make valid points they are covered by the fog of his misinformation and weak BS. He is considered a troll, and by many a comedian.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 9:34 am
“JBB lost his credibility on this blog long ago” proudly say the troll posting as anon….hahaha
John Johnson Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Come on, Mother…knock it off.
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The Ignorant One Reply:
July 12th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Abortion is not a need, neither is birth control. These are elective, and exist for the purpose of convenience. Not to mention that both practices have been more to the detriment of women than otherwise. There are effective methods of controlling the life-creating process of pregnancy that don’t involve slavery to the corporate machine.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 13th, 2012 at 8:35 am
Men can’t die in childbirth. Next question.
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Anonymous says:
Men can get services at Planned Parenthood too:
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/men-4285.htm
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cyrus says:
So, to “fund” women’s health care, they are cutting services and infrastructure. That’s not “funding”. The devil as always is in the details that are glossed over here. Hiring freezes, cutting “services deemed unnecessary” & eligibility-system changes means cost-shifting. It’s part of the shell game the Republicans are using to “balance” the budget, knowing full well that they are simply creating more problems than they solve. Working families get the short end of the stick again and the true cost of health care is passed along to the next generation. They are simply ripping bandages off of one wound to try and cover another one. It’s a strategy that depends on the short memories of voters who are too busy trying to make ends meet to pay close attention to these issues, and enough degrees of separation and alibis for the Republicans responsible for this catastrophe to steer clear of accountability.
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Sharon Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Amen Brother! I could not have said it better! I just hope women (who are the majority of voters in U.S.) will remember and vote accordingly. The republican attitude toward women the past couple of years has been deplorable and getting worse almost daily. Hopefully women will remember them in the polls come November.
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Arturo says:
Wait’ll the wingnuts find out what the supremes just did to Arizona.
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Aqua Man says:
How many Planned Parenthood clinics are staffed by a doctor? (answer: few) How many mammogram machines are owned by planned parenthood clinics? (answer: hardly any) How many providers are there besides planned parenthood for the program (over 2000 in Texas alone).
The FQHC issue is really more political… the left pushed FQHC model (federal qualified healthcare clinics)…. only to now have Texas suggest they can cover some of the work done by another darling of the left, planned parenthood. The FQHC model was never pushed by the left with the intention of eroding Planned Parenthood’s turf… Planned Parenthood is being de-linked from the bigger issue of women’s health because there are viable alternatives.
All we’re left with is political games… women’s health has plenty of providers in Texas, with or without the baggage-heavy planned parenthood issue.
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cyrus Reply:
June 25th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Planned Parenthood only carries the “baggage” attached to it by right-wing zealots, who did so purely to motivate their outrage demographic.
And, no, there aren’t many “viable alternatives”, or you would be naming them.
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The Ignorant One Reply:
July 12th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Thanks, AM, for bringing some sense into this issue.
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paulburka says:
Great news, but, pray tell, who are these “plenty of providers?” And what are the viable alternatives?
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Anonymous Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Best option in many of the less populated areas would be the Rural Health Clinics, which are normally tied to community hospitals as part of an effort to steer traffic away from emergency rooms. Planned Parenthood is more of an urban-based service, anyway, so even if you didn’t have the current row, you’d still need a second option to be of any good to Texans outside of the large metro areas.
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Pat Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 3:16 am
Parkland has COPCs that have been extremely successful in reducing costs…by giving away free preventative care to those who cannot afford to pay for it (socialism!), thereby keeping such persons out of the emergency room and minimizing the high-cost, life-saving operations for which Dallas County taxpayers must pay (oh wait, cost-saving!). The COPCs were expensive to get off the ground. Rural Hospital Districts don’t have that kind of financial wiggle room. Worse, their communities are incredibly spread out. It would never work. The economies of scale don’t exist.
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Batgirl says:
Isn’t it nice how Planned Parenthood is so concerned now about men and their private parts after decades of sucking the brains out of unborn kids.
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anon Reply:
June 25th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Happened to you, eh?
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John Johnson says:
Paul, guess you’re going to need to change he heading on this thread to “Men and Women’s Health Programs: Money is not the problem”. Who would have known?
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WUSRPH says:
Whether the services get delivered is and has never been Perry’s concern. He only wants to be able to say: “Look at me..I found the bucks”…That will make most people think the problem has been solved. The public will be happy…except for the few who will eventually find out that services were not provided after all. By then Perry and the general public will have moved onto new issues. Political problem solved; health problem, who cares?
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virginiamary says:
One would think that money-conscious Texans would be elated to save tax money that otherwise flies out the window when an uninsured sick pregnant woman shows up at the ER to give birth or has a premature baby that stays in the neonatal ICU for months at a time.
What is not being discussed is birth control. Birth control prevents pregnancy. It also prevents abortions. This should not be a partisan issue, but it’s been made into one in an election year. None of the Planned Parenthood groups funded by state provide abortions.
Half the people in Texas have no health insurance. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “More than 56 percent of all pregnancies in Texas are paid for by Medicaid, costing Medicaid $2 billion a year in prenatal, delivery and the child’s first-year of medical care.”
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JohnBernardBooks says:
“Half the people in Texas have no health insurance”
25 million live in Texas, 6 million are uninsured
1.5 million of the 6 are here illegally.
About 17% of Texans are uninsured, many by choice.
Should I get a IPhone with unlimited texting so I can text while driving, mentality.
Money isn’t the problem with healthcare much like edu, its liberals who want to run every aspect of our lives.
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anon Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 9:32 am
GOP talking points and Fox News numbers. BS. JBB, you just have no credibility.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
maybe if I posted as anon my credibility would go up?
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Anon Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
It would. Your inane comments speak for themselves.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 4:19 am
then there is no problem simply prove the numbers are wrong. Then when you can’t you can always run and hide behind anon.
anon Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
No, conservatives want to run our lives, especially when it comes to our “naughty” parts and what we do with them.
Conservatives are taking away choices for women’s healthcare.
Conservatives are denying rights to gay people.
Conservatives want “abstinence only” sex ed.
Conservatives forced invasive vaginal sonograms on women seeking legal pregnancy terminations.
The GOP that wants to force everyone to be just like Ned Flanders, not your demonized liberals.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
the free sex and nickle beer argument
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Rooster Cogburn Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Youve obviously been practising the opposite: nickle sex and free beer!
Anonymous says:
Tort reform savings went where? Insurance companies, physicians, and hospitals. Net gainers under Obamacare are whom? Those who can’t pay and the insurance companies, physicians,hosptials,and pharm companies. Who pays the extra money that goes to the poor, the illegals, the insurance companies, the hospitals and pharmaceutical companies? Duh!
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:45 am
the taxpayers took it in the shorts under Obamacare? who knew…
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longleaf says:
Women and children are more dependent on the nanny state than men are. Children can’t vote in more nanny care. But women can.
The GOPers’ task in coming years had better be to figure out how to disenfranchise women – COMPLETELY, as in a return to pre-1920, pre-19th Amendment days.
Having billions to spend on each election courtesy of the Citizens United decision is not always going to be sufficient as long as this nanny half (or slightly more than half) of the electorate is eligible to vote.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 6:25 am
“Women and children are more dependent on the nanny state than men are.”
exactly as long as liberals can convince people they are victims and only liberals can help them they have power.
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Ben Quick Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I agree – let women and children rely on “trickle down” benefits – that will happen someday – if the child’s mother can earn $7.00 an hour that will pay for all the health care she and the child will need
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Willie James Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Seems of late only liberals and moderates would be willing to help them. Conservatives are in it for themselves.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Willie, no one does more for the needy than conservative christians. Stop being stupid if you can.
anon says:
Planned Parenthood is an organization that provides needed services. Period. Injecting religious and superstitious beliefs into a persons choice is anti-American, against freedom and liberty and forces one religious groups lifestyle on an entire class of Americans. We are losing our freedoms to the conservative American Taliban.
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Willie James Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
JBB, you are ignorant. Christians are as much a part of the problem as the solution.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 4:21 am
thanks for proving my point Wilie.
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Sharon Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 9:10 am
Truer words have never been spoken! Thank you!
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I'm Pavlov. Ring a Bell? says:
Abortion is a “needed service”? Wow, makes you wonder how civilization was able to cope so well for so long without this “needed service.”
Liberals have the strangest ideas about killing babies.
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anon Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Yeah, I’d say it is a needed service. I wouldn’t force my daughter or any other teen to carry out a pregnancy because she made a bad choice. I’d give them all a do-over.
But also I wouldn’t force a poor family who had an accidental pregnancy to carry out to term.
I don’t want to force some junkie whore to deliver a baby who’ll never get the care it needs.
You don’t really care about saving babies or children’s welfare, though. If you really did, you’d demand better pre-natal care, better pre-kinder education, subsidized food for undernourished children. But you don’t talk about that stuff. You only want them to have the baby, but after that you don’t care what happens.
What you want is punishment. Life-long punishment in screaming baby form for all those dirty, poor people out there who had sex when ‘they should know better.’
It’s really about sex with you. That’s what it comes down to, isn’t it? That’s the only conclusion I can come up with. That, or you’ve just found an issue where people can see you publicly proclaim your moral high ground.
What if your 15-year-old, honor student daughter was going to have a baby in 8 1/2 months. Would you still make her have that baby? Oh, how about this little twist, what if Darnell Jenkins, varsity wide receiver, was the father?
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donuthin Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
agree
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Hutchie Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 10:13 am
If my 15 year old daughter were pregnant, an abortion would not make her unpregnant, it would make her the mother of a dead child. There is no “do-over” with life, or death, just people trying to make the best choices. I would support her, and recommend adoption. My oldest son is adopted from a similar circumstance, and I honor his birthmother for her selflessness and love for him.
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Hutchie Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 10:18 am
FYI – my adopted son is mixed, and we are lily white (poor guy). There are many, many of us who will continue to adopt all types of infants, if permitted. Tennessee blocked white families from adopting mixed children for a long time, but suit was filed, and that stupidness has ended. I know a black family who adopted a little white girl, and it’s been wonderful for all of them.
Robert Morrow Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 3:23 am
“I don’t want to force some junkie whore to deliver a baby who’ll never get the care it needs.”
I say keep abortion legal.
She can use a coat hanger without the taxpayer paying for it.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
babies are a punishment? wow….how ignorant.
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Alan Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
JBB, if you force a poor unwed mother to have a baby she can’t and won’t support, you’re bringing more government handout recipients into the world and they’ll grow up and vote for the evil Democrats who are ruining the world.
Abortion providers are doing you a favor.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 4:25 am
“Abortion providers are doing you a favor.”
so liberals simply want to do us a big favor….with tax dollars of course.
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Kenneth D. Franks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 8:17 am
When a child actually gets here Republicans no longer care. If they did they would support programs for children living in poverty.
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Hutchie Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 10:21 am
KB Franks, my personal program is to bring them into my home, to share my life and property, to be loved and read to and tucked in at night. You?
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anon Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 11:36 am
While your commitment to good parenting is commendable, how many children can you adopt and care for? Your house is only so big. Not everyone has the resources you’re blessed with.
If every single unwanted pregnancy carried to term, what public resources would you be willing to spend to care for these children until adoption?
The problem is that there are already needy children out in the world, with and without willing parents, who need help. At the same time, the Republican M.O. is to cut funding to help these children.
Republicans want to end abortion forever and abandon all sex education save for abstinence. Logically this means volumes of more unwanted little people with biological parents who can’t or won’t take care of them. (Promote NGOs and churches as the solution all you want, they’ll never have adequate resources.)
You must understand my strong misgivings towards a party and platform that wants more children, yet is callously unwilling to properly take care of those children now.
If abortion is ever made illegal, what makes you think Republicans will suddenly reverse course and spend even more money funding quality shelters, health care, education and adoption services for children when they refuse to do the same for needy children existing now?
Ben Quick says:
Paul, can you post something new? this is not moving
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Anonymous Reply:
June 26th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
agree, a couple on here can kill what might otherwise be a decent topic for discussion.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 4:26 am
Its doing just fine exposing the sheer ignorance of democrats.
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Omar Little Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 8:01 am
I’m sure your vast experience in profiling criminals helps you expose and uncover all sorts of stuff.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
If you only knew how easy it is to expose liars, criminals and liberals.
Sharon Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 9:20 am
It’s also exposing the heartless cruelty and arrogance of conservative republicans who can’t see the forest for the trees when it comes to the issue of abortion and their absolute disregard of the needs of the children of forced births. If we spent more time and money concerned about the impoverished children that are already on this planet, maybe we would have less time and money to worry about the unborn and unwanted children of abortion.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 9:36 am
responsibility is a bitch ain’t it…
anon Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 11:42 am
Exactly, JBB. That’s why irresponsible people or those people with too much responsibility shouldn’t be forced to have kids.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
and who’s forcing them to have kids? No one is forcing anyone to have sex. it’s a choice with consequences.
as previously stated responsibility is a bitch.
Anonymous Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 6:58 am
Some people choose celibacy, and some like jbb have it chosen for them.
Flagship University says:
Did you guys see that TAMU is buying Texas Wesleyan Law School? How bout that, a cut rate university buying a dollar store law school.
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rw says:
PP routinely overbills the federal government. They under-report potential sex crimes on teenagers. They are the nation’s leading abortion provider. Over half of their revenue comes from abortion. They pay attorneys who argue against cases limiting abortion.
They also support and contribute to the Democrat party. And that is why TM continues to advocate on their behalf.
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facts get in the way of rant Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 10:54 am
There is nothing wrong with providing health services on a sliding scale fee. PP helped me with my second pregnancy and ensured I had a healthy start to my planned and wanted second baby. Yes I am married.
My great, great grandmother died in childbirth with her fourth child and it looks like many posters here would be happy to return to that era.
Those of you men who are flipping out about abortion are generally the dads of young women who have abortions, because they know they can’t come home pregnant and they don’t plan by using contraception because they are “good girls.”
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
“Those of you men who are flipping out about abortion are generally the dads of young women who have abortions,”
no one is flipping out about abortions. Some posters here have made stupid assertions like the one you made. I’m merely commenting on how stupid liberals are.
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Anon Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Articulate and well thought out JBB. Once again you prove how solid thinking, research and dead solid facts can make an argument. Your value to this conversation is immense, your keen political knowledge and way with words is really something.
Texian Politico says:
On another topic, I attended the monthly Williamson Co GOP executive committee meeting last night in Georgetown. It was a packed house with standing room only in the courtroom used for the meeting. That’s amazing for a hot July week night. Ted Cruz’s father spoke and did a great job. The audience was strongly for Cruz. These are your pct chairs, grassroots activists, and most loyal voters – a.k.a. the people that Dewhurst has not won over. I’m more convinced than ever that Cruz will win this runoff.
Rep. Chisum and Com. Smitherman both spoke last night as well and were very well received. I think they each have a good chance to win their RRC races, with Smitherman being more of a favorite in his race than Chisum is over Craddick.
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John Johnson says:
T.P. Smitherman is nothing but a lackey. He knows about as much about oil and gas as I do. Another Aggie attorney appointed by Perry to our PUC, the Big Boys yanked him to and fro and got everything they needed from him. We could expect more of the same out of him at RRC. Does anyone question why you would want to put someone in office that the people he will be overseeing avidly support? Duh!! Do you even pay attention to what’s going on, or just wear your Repub badge proudly with you eyes closed? Cruz and Smitherman need to go back to private practice. Texans will be much better off when they do.
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Texian Politico Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Yeah, I don’t pay attention to anything. I thought his name was Barry and not T.P. Well, I’m just a lackey with a big GOP badge and because I don’t agree with you I’m just a moron. Ha.
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John Johnson says:
You’re T.P. Ha!
It has nothing to do with you not agreeing with me. It has to do with a trunk to tail mentality. Blindly following. It has to do with you not being able to tell me why Barry Smitherman is a good choice. I can tell you specifically why he is not a good one. I can tell you about all the PUC rulings that went for the Big’s and against consumers, a multimillion dollar reimbursement to ONCOR for smart meters that were out of spec, his trying to get the head job at ERCOt while still heading up the PUC (the agency mandated to oversee ERCOT), not one iota of oil and gas experience in his background. I could go one.
Pardon me for pounding on you, but it is people like you who call themselves “politico’s” who keep promoting and backing people you really don’t know anythng about. They just have to have an R or D next to their name, depending on which side has brainwashed you.
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Anonymous Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Ask Mr. Smitherman, what percentage of escrowed funds specifically collected on each of our electricity bills each month to help pay the high summer bills of those on fixed incomes actually went toward doing so while he headed up the Public Utility Commission. Then ask him where most of it actually went.
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Texian Politico Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 8:28 am
So JJ you think Greg Parker is the answer?
It absolutely has to do with me not agreeing with you. I’m confident my knowledge of politics, government, and history are every bit as good as yours. I’m just not a prick about as are you.
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John Johnson Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
I don’t doubt that in the least, T.P. You are probably a political animal…probably made your living from the poltical process. Me…I’m an independent businessman. I was a trunk to tail Repub that didn’t pay attention to politics at all until 2007.
Maybe you just suffer from lapses from time to time, get complacent or something, and don’t check up on who the guy is that’s running and where he’s been. Then there is always the chance that you do know where a guy has been and what he’s been doing and still find him suitable. If that’s the case with Smitherman, you, sir, are a loon.
Damn, there’s the prick in me coming out again.
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Robert Morrow says:
Who do I hate more Rick Perry or Ellen Cohen?
Pretty much the same. Except that I do think overall Rick is more “man friendly” than Cohen is.
“Houston Strip Clubs Hit by New Pole Tax”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304830704577492890714972590.html
Ellen Cohen is the former state rep who sponsored the state titty bar tax with the money going to a slush fund of liberal feminist do-gooders. The rationale is that strip clubs foster an environment of rape so that the state must tax them. Ellen Cohen is someone who fosters an environment of robbery and stealing: promoting and passing a “pole tax” for the city of Houston.
These clubs already pay a huge alchohol tax.
Now that c___t Ellen Cohen is on the Houston City Council and up to her old tricks.
“Feminism” is an ideology created so that ugly women could get ahead in society. Like Rush Limbaugh says because a man will not pay the expenses of these women they want to “married” to the government and force everyone else to pay for it.
WSJ: “The City Council passed an ordinance Wednesday that requires strip clubs to pay a $5-per-visitor fee to help pay for the analysis of biological evidence collected from rape victims in hopes of identifying their attackers.”
Victoria Camp of TAASA which gives Anita Perry a %$65,000/year do-nothing job:
“the environment that goes on at strip clubs fosters a culture that is more tolerant, at the very least, of sexual violence.”
These feminist frauds of the left are every bit as fraudulent and hypocritical as the Rick and Anita Perry frauds of the right. If they *really* believed that strip clubs fostered and environment of women being gang raped on pool tables, then they would demand that these places be shut down and that anyone associated with them be arrested including all the managers, strippers and customers.
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Anon says:
Well it looks like Americans will enjoy some helath care after all: Supreme court agrees with Obamacare. Let the frothing commence, conservatives!
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Robert Morrow Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 10:02 am
What it will promote is “health care rationing” – more people who will be “guaranteed” treatment, but no more people or resources “guaranteed” to give it to them.
We already have socialized medicine. This just makes it MORE socialized medicine. Which means higher costs and less healthcare and less freedom for the majority.
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Robert Morrow says:
I wonder if Ellen Cohen ever quizzed Bill Clinton about his April 25, 1978 rape of Juanita Broaddrick? That was the one where wild Bill raped her twice in 30 minutes, bit her lip so hard to disable her that she had a huge busted lip along with torn panties.
http://www.ellencohen.org/about/bio/
“Ellen was appointed by President Bill Clinton along with the US Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the National Violence Against Women Advisory Council. She accepted this role because of the need for comprehensive language dealing with domestic violence and sexual assault.”
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jpt51 says:
Fifty million Americans live in poverty. Texas has more uninsured than any state. Gov Perry & his party would rather divert us – focus on PP – than deal with critical needs. They protect the 1% avoid paying their fair to live in this great state.
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BAYBEAR says:
Well, this blog needs more women to provide some balance to this perspective. For men to blather on about things they don’t know is arrogant and does not serve the arguement. Planned Parenthood saved my cousins life and that of her sister. I’ll send more money.
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The Ignorant One Reply:
July 12th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
And that act is worth the murder of the most helpless of all humans? I fail to see how that is so…
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BAYBEAR says:
oOPS. SISTER IN-LAW!
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Danny Jones says:
Paul,
I think you should turn off the comments on your blog. The lack of thoughtful commentary by the usual characters (especiallly on this post) is making your bog irrelevant.
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