It’s official…Wendy Davis is eligible to run for state senate against Kim Brimer after a legal battle that involved Brimer suing Davis for filing before she was off of the city council…We need more great women like Davis running for office in North Texas and it would be a shame if a technicality stopped it [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Rock on, Wendy!
July 22, 2008
Local radio host arrested for domestic violence
July 22, 2008
Update: 105.3 FM is not putting Russ Martin back on the air for the time being. Good decision…Kudos to whoever made that decision. Local radio talk show host Russ Martin was arrested on Friday after allegedly assaulting his fiance in his Southlake home. At some point during the assault, he pointed a pistol at her. [...]
Rape’s not funny, McCain
July 17, 2008
Which charming anti-choice presidential candidate told the following joke in the presence of a reporter in 1986? Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over [...]
John McCain doesn’t like birth control, either
July 16, 2008
FYI, John McCain has a really shoddy voting record concerning birth control…he even voted against a measure to require health insurance to cover it (as most health insurance covers Viagra) and told a reporter he forgot about that vote. So if you don’t like Bush’s stance on birth control (or, our rights to plan our [...]
Only 188 days left…
July 16, 2008
In the most recent Bush administration slap in the face to women, an inter-administration (dept. of health and human services) memo chips away at Roe vs. Wade and women’s health in general by planning to cut off federal funds to states, hospitals and clinics that “discriminate” against employees who refuse to offer birth control or abortions [...]
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