LIST OF TEXAS STATE REPS WHO MIGHT VOTE FOR RINO SPEAKER

Here in Texas, our state legislature had HUGE Republican gains. Although it already held a Republican majority before the election, it now holds a two-thirds Super Majority and the Tea Party is largely to thank. That leads us to the current House Speaker, Joe Straus. He is a moderate who got his position two years ago by aligning with 65 Democrats and 11 RINOs in order to defeat then Speaker Tom Craddick.

As Red State has been pointing out, Straus' record with abortion groups has been deplorably liberal. If you need a little added incentive to pick up the phone and tell these Reps not to vote for Straus, how about this from Life News:

Erick Erickson of the RedState blog has gone after Strauss on pro-life issues, even though the Speaker says he is fully pro-life and has the support of some pro-life advocates.

“Joe Straus has a 100% rating from NARAL, but the same people saying Straus is conservative also say he is pro-life. I’m sorry, but pro-lifers do not get 100% ratings from NARAL nor do their spouses sit on the boards of abortion organizations,” he said. “Pro-lifers are not honored by Planned Parenthood, but Joe Straus was.”

For more, click HERE and HERE.

Here is the list of fence-sitters / pledged votes for Straus via Tea Party 911:

HD * Last First Capitol District
35 * Aliseda Jose (361) 358-9400
106 * Anderson Rodney (214) 293-8067
56 * Anderson Charles (512) 463-0135 (254) 754-3892
54 * Aycock Jimmie Don (512) 463-0684 (254) 690-1752
57 * Beck Marva (903) 536-2290
138 * Bohac Dwayne (512) 463-0727 (713) 460-2800
132 * Callegari William (512) 463-0528 (281) 578-8484
102 * Carter Stefani (214) 714-1011
16 * Creighton Brandon (512) 463-0726 (936) 539-0028
64 * Crownover Myra (512) 463-0582 (940) 321-0013
129 * Davis John (512) 463-0734 (281) 333-1350
134 * Davis Sarah (713) 320-2077
113 * Driver Joe (512) 463-0574 (972) 276-1556
15 * Eissler Rob (512) 463-0797 (281) 681-9655
135 * Elkins Gary (512) 463-0722 (832) 912-8380
130 * Fletcher Allen (512) 463-0661
84 * Frullo John (806) 853-8275
117 * Garza John (210) 248-7766
52 * Gonzales Larry (512) 423-4959
4 * Gooden Lance (214) 864-5821
19 * Hamilton Mike (512) 463-0412 (409) 745-3644
91 * Hancock Kelly (512) 463-0599 (817) 590-9280
105 * Harper-Brown Linda (512) 463-0641 (972) 401-8825
114 * Hartnett Will (512) 463-0576 (214) 891-1776
127 * Huberty Dan (713) 526-3399
32 * Hunter Todd (512) 463-0672 (361) 884-8777
45 * Isaac Jason (512) 850-5524
115 * Jackson Jim (512) 463-0468 (972) 416-7698
13 * Kolkhorst Lois (512) 463-0600 (979) 251-7888
122 * Larson Lyle (210) 414-3536
1 * Lavender George (870) 773-4631
144 * Legler Ken (512) 463-0460 (713) 526-3399
69 Lyne Lanham (940) 691-5200
67 * Madden Jerry (512) 463-0544 (972) 424-2235
78 * Margo Dee (915) 313-7060
59 * Miller Sid (512) 463-0628 (254) 968-3535
73 * Miller Doug (512) 463-0325 (830) 624-8338
30 * Morrison Geanie (512) 463-0456 (361) 572-0196
133 * Murphy Jim (713) 526-3399
93 * Nash Barbara (817) 235-7743
58 * Orr Rob (512) 463-0538 (817) 295-5158
18 * Otto John (512) 463-0570 (936) 258-8135
87 * Price Walter "Four" (806) 322-1440
21 * Ritter Allan (512) 463-0706 (409) 729-3228
20 * Schwertner Charles (512) 863-4563
34 * Scott Connie (361) 387-7595
55 * Sheffield Ralph (512) 463-0630 (254) 774-9888
97 * Shelton Mark (512) 463-0608 (817) 921-6554
128 * Smith Wayne (512) 463-0733 (832) 556-2002
86 * Smithee John (512) 463-0702 (806) 372-3327
65 * Solomons Burt (512) 463-0478 (972) 394-3904
24 * Taylor Larry (512) 463-0729 (281) 338-0924
33 Torres Raul (361) 549-8957
136 * Woolley Beverly (512) 463-0696 (713) 629-6313
47 * Workman Paul (512) 748-5599
28 * Zerwas John (512) 463-0657 (281) 533-9042

The fact remains that if any of these elected Reps were put in office on November 2nd as a result of their commitment to the Tea Party, voting for Straus is a vote for ignoring the will of the people.

h/t Red State

NEW LOW: LIBERAL TALK SHOW HOST BLAMES BECK FOR SCHOOL BOARD SHOOTER

It's bad enough when the left blames the actions of individual nut cases on right wing talk show hosts. It gets even worse after listening to far left progressive Mike Malloy. He not only blames Glenn Beck for causing Clay Duke to snap and fire a gun at his local school board members before killing himself but Malloy did so despite the fact that Duke was anything but a Glenn Beck fan. As Verum Serum points out, Duke listed - among other things on his facebook page - Media Matters as one of his favorite websites.

Here's Malloy via VS:



Duke's favorite websites:

STOCKHOLM BOMBER'S TOWN RECEIVED GOVT MONEY TO COMBAT TERRORISM - NO RESULTS

Sweden's Home Office came up with a brilliant plan to dole out money to Islamic groups in return for being informed about which Muslim individuals should be put on an 'at-risk' list. The town where Stockholm bomber Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly preached received quite a bit of money even though the mosque he preached in didn't accept any. The reason given by the Islamic Center chairman about why his group didn't accept money under the Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) plan might explain why the Home Office received a big fat ZERO in ROI.

Via Daily Mail:

Islamic Centre chairman Qadeer Baksh said: ‘The reason we didn’t take the Government money for the Preventing Violent Extremism scheme is that it requires us to inform on fellow Muslims.

‘If we had taken the money our members would have seen us as working for the Government. The young men with radical views would not have listened to us.

‘I have never called the police or authorities on anyone.’

At least he's honest. Baksh's explanation provides as good a reason as any for why groups that accepted money provided not one single tip to authorities:

Muslim groups in the town where the Stockholm suicide bomber lived have been handed more than £550,000 of taxpayers’ money to combat extremism but have failed to tip off police about a single terror suspect.

The grants were handed out to mosques, schools and women’s projects by Luton council to prevent young Muslims being radicalised.

Under the Home Office’s Preventing Violent Extremism scheme, Islamic organisations are given money to stop members turning to violence. The groups are urged to reveal the names of those likely to commit violent crimes so they can be put on an ‘at-risk’ list by police.

But the Daily Mail has learnt that – despite £554,000 being given to groups in Luton since 2008 – not a single name has been handed over.

I guess we can call this 21st Century Stockholm Syndrome. At some point, shouldn't we also stop wondering why western civilization in general isn't seeing 'moderate' Muslims help much?

h/t Weasel Zippers