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Related: About this forumTexas LG candidate Jerry Patterson says don’t secede from the union — just throw liberal states out
Remember Rick Perry and secession? Thats so yesterday. Ever-quotable lieutenant governor candidate Jerry Patterson says he has a better idea. Texas shouldnt secede it should just make the U.S. better by throwing liberal states out. California, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. I get lots of questions all the time, Well, we should secede. I say, No, Ive got a better idea. Instead of secession, Im a proponent of expulsion, he told the AP. I want to kick about four states out of this union.
Pattersons idea about state ideological cleansing underscores his distinctive political persona. A 2nd Amendment-loving, motorcycle-riding Marine currently the states land commissioner Patterson is running for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor to replace incumbent David Dewhurst. Its a crowded contest. He trails in money, but is good at grabbing headlines to present himself as the most conservative candidate in the field.
On guns: He always has a .22-caliber Magnum in his boot and sometimes a .380 in his waistband. Its like a smoke detector: You dont turn it on just for when you think you might get a fire.
On the Endangered Species Act: It protects critters that probably ought to die anyway. I mean, the blind salamander? How long are we gonna let that little bugger last?
More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/texas-candidate-jerry-patterson-says-dont-secede-from-the-union-just-throw-liberal-states-out.html/ .
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)voting and candidacy requirements - like a civics test. If you can't pass a basic high school civics test, you cannot vote or run for office.
*I'm joking, of course*
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)marble falls
(57,162 posts)Ilsa
(61,697 posts)on their own. Then the red states can go bankrupt as a group while the expelled blue states prosper.