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Related: About this forumHarris GOP chair accuses Mayor Parker of promoting ‘mob rule’ by extending benefits to gay partners
Harris County GOP chair Jared Woodfill says Houston Mayor Annise Parker is promoting mob rule and anarchy by extending benefits to the married same-sex partners of city employees, according to the right-wing news site WorldNetDaily:
Woodfill asked: If that is what Mayor Parker thinks of law and order, how can she effectively serve as the chief executive officer of a large municipality, whose first duty is to ensure law and order?
He said that if the city loses the rule of law, we give into to mob rule and crony politics, aptly described once as the Chicago way.
Texas and Houston will not permit would-be anarchy to become the default standard of government in this city, he said.
He said that if the city loses the rule of law, we give into to mob rule and crony politics, aptly described once as the Chicago way.
Texas and Houston will not permit would-be anarchy to become the default standard of government in this city, he said.
Woodfill and others, including Dave Welch of the U.S. Pastors Council and Jonathan Saenz of Texas Values, are threatening to file a lawsuit challenging same-sex partner benefits in Houston. However, one expert told Lone Star Q its doubtful that a Texas court would grant them standing.
Of course, the irony here is that mob rule is what happens when a tyrannical majority strips the civil rights of an oppressed minority which is exactly what happened when Texas voters approved the 2005 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
http://www.lonestarq.com/harris-gop-chair-says-mayor-parker-instituted-mob-rule-extending-benefits-gay-spouses/
Cross-posted in LGBT Group.
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Harris GOP chair accuses Mayor Parker of promoting ‘mob rule’ by extending benefits to gay partners (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Dec 2013
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Gothmog
(145,554 posts)1. Juanita Jean had fun mocking the Harris County GOP Chairman
http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/12/09/because-this-mob-is-gonna-come-over-there-and-fix-your-hair/
Okay, I think you people from foreign states know that my momma lives in a city with a great Mayor Houstons Annise Parker. She just ran for her third term and won 57% against 8 opponents. Shes as popular as a lottery winner and so hot that you can cook chili on her head.
Last month, she extended spousal benefits to same gender couples married in other states and working for the city of Houston.
The Republicans wet their pants. Harris County GOP chairman, a fastidious man named Jared Woodfill, went bonkers and accused the Houston Mayor of being well, something very bad. You know, like evil bad. Very.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)2. The Harris County republicans are suing on this
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Harris-County-GOP-chairman-sues-city-over-5072727.php?cmpid=houtexhcat
Harris County Republicans, led by the county's GOP chairman, sued the City of Houston Tuesday over Mayor Annise Parker's extension of health and life insurance benefits to all spouses of legally married employees, including same-sex couples in November.
"This is one of the most egregious acts by an elected official I've ever seen," said Jared Woodfill, chairman the Harris County Republican party. Woodfill, is the lead lawyer on the lawsuit. "They just decided to, unilaterally, as a lame duck, thumb their nose at the will of the people and just spit on the U.S. Constitution."