700 progressive women in Dallas

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http://www.truth-out.org/connie-schultz-this-is-not-karl-roves-texas63862


This Is Not Karl Rove's Texas


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I understand the frustration, but I can't fall prey to despair. Last week, I spent two hours with 700 progressive women in Dallas and then two hours the next day with Karl Rove in Oberlin, Ohio.

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I was in Dallas to talk to feminists who support progressive female candidates.
We're not talking pretty little notecards that end with, "You go, girl!" These women raise serious money to change the face of power in a state that produced George W. Bush and Tom DeLay but has a proud legacy of Ann Richards and Molly Ivins, too.

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By the time I left those remarkable women in Dallas, I had laughed so hard and dreamed so big that I swear I could have skipped my commercial flight and just flapped my own wings home.
And to home I had to go because I was headed for Oberlin College, where a handful of Republican students had invited Karl Rove to speak in Finney Chapel.

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"I'm from Texas," Karl Rove told the Oberlin crowd. "We're simple-minded down there."

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wish I could have posted more

hugs and kisses to the progressive women in Texas

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1. I'm surprised that more DUers aren't speaking to this

truer view of Texas