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  1. I've been thinking about fmr #Texas Governor #AnnRichards lately.

    When she ran for governor in 1990 she was WAY behind in the polls behind her opponent #Republican energy baron Clayton Williams.

    Then just a few weeks before the election, Wlms was caught "joking" to a friend that he didn't understand why women are so terrified of being #raped:

    "If the #rape is inevitable, just lie back and enjoy it", he quipped.

    Outraged Republican women showed up en masse to give Richards the win. #misogyny

  2. I've been thinking about fmr #Texas Governor #AnnRichards lately.

    When she ran for governor in 1990 she was WAY behind in the polls behind her opponent #Republican energy baron Clayton Williams.

    Then just a few weeks before the election, Wlms was caught "joking" to a friend that he didn't understand why women are so terrified of being #raped:

    "If the #rape is inevitable, just lie back and enjoy it", he quipped.

    Outraged Republican women showed up en masse to give Richards the win. #misogyny

  3. @Subumbral
    I just minutes ago finished Calvin Trillin's book, The Lede. He has a chapter on them!

    I lived in the Houston area when Ann Richards was the Governor of Texas. Politics there have always been like a sport, but unlike now, it wasn't Hunger Games.

    #Texas
    #CalvinTrillin
    #TheLede
    #AnnRichards
    #MollyIvins

  4. @Subumbral
    I just minutes ago finished Calvin Trillin's book, The Lede. He has a chapter on them!

    I lived in the Houston area when Ann Richards was the Governor of Texas. Politics there have always been like a sport, but unlike now, it wasn't Hunger Games.

    #Texas
    #CalvinTrillin
    #TheLede
    #AnnRichards
    #MollyIvins

  5. Richard 'Kinky' Friedman, Texas musician, humorist, author has died

    A rabble rousing man of letters with a penchant for self-mythology and a deep love of animals, whose music and writing was loved by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bill Clinton, musician, author and erstwhile political candidate Kinky Friedman died Thursday.

    statesman.com/story/news/state

    #Texas #Politics #Detective #Politics #Humor #Music #MikeJudge #AnnRichards #RayBenson

  6. Richard 'Kinky' Friedman, Texas musician, humorist, author has died

    A rabble rousing man of letters with a penchant for self-mythology and a deep love of animals, whose music and writing was loved by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bill Clinton, musician, author and erstwhile political candidate Kinky Friedman died Thursday.

    statesman.com/story/news/state

    #Texas #Politics #Detective #Politics #Humor #Music #MikeJudge #AnnRichards #RayBenson