If anyone still lives in Texas, get out before it's too late.

[Archae]

I mean, this is the guy in charge of your oil and gas industry:

In 2011, Gov. Rick Perry appointed Barry Smitherman to lead the board that regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, which is called, oddly, the Texas Railroad Commission. Smitherman then ran for the board and was elected in 2012.

He, of course, is an idiot who froths at the mouth as often as possible -- which is why he’s a friend of Rick Perry’s.

Smitherton took to the Twitter and reposted a picture showing a noose and suggesting that any of the 16 Senators who voted to debate gun control be charged with treason and hung.

He put that on Twitter. Yeah, so everydamnbody can see it.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/tweets-and-nooses

[byeya]

1. And Perry is offering Texas as the place for businesses to relocate to because

of the underpaid and overcompliant(and desarate) workforce and no meaningful state regulations regarding employee and environmental abuse

[n2doc]

11. Don't forget, Texas gives $19 Billion every year to bribe businesses to go there

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/us/winners-and-losers-in-texas.html

While they let their education system rot (with the exception of the big football factory high schools).

[Gothmog]

2. I am glad to see Juanita Jean is on C&L

I am glad that Susan is now posting on Crooks & Liars

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. But..but..Texas is supposed to turn blue soon!!!

or so I read in a comments section of a libertarian blog, which complained that too many "liberals" were moving into Texas, and stated that Texas would be "lost" in a few years.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Texas has been a proud Democrat state and I hope to see Texas again show its greatness.

I am sure it will be under the Names of Delay, Perry, Bush and several others. We had greatness with Ann Richards and the tired dirty old men like those mentioned will be sent out to pasture. We will rise again and without the dumb TP bunch.

[freshwest]

8. +1

[Rex]

5. Not a chance, I will be here when they come for me.

This state will be blue again.

[angel823]

6. right there with you brother

I'm old enough to remember Ann Richards, Barbara Jordan and Molly Ivins.


Angel in Texas

[Paladin]

10. +1. (nt)

[Tx4obama]

7. We need more Democrats to move here, not move away.

Over 3 million Texans voted for Obama in 2008 and also in 2012 - we are not going anywhere!

[BEZERKO]

9. Texas is just like Georgia,

there are more Democrats than Republicans, it's just a matter of getting them registered and voting. Smitherman is a disgusting piece of shit, this really pisses me off. He hates freedom and peace and the Constitution.

[Helen Reddy]

12. Every time

I hear from Gov. Nincompoop,

the more I miss Molly Ivins. She had his number brother.