Texas mayor slams Congress: "Spare us your thoughts and prayers and do your job"

[DonViejo]

9 min ago

The Democratic mayor of Dallas has strong words in the wake of the shooting at a high school outside Houston.

In it, Mayor Mike Rawlings called on members of Congress to take “substantive action” to stop mass shootings and said “history will not look kindly upon those elected officials who failed to act in the face of repeated mass murders of our children.”

He added: “Spare us your thoughts and prayers and do your job.”

Link to tweet

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https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/santa-fe-texas-shooting/h_e2e12584644b98e07bdb176e1e399c41

[MagickMuffin]

1. THIS MUST STOP

Yes, it must.

Congress, DO YOUR JOBS!

[Achilleaze]

2. KGOP republicans, inc.: #DoYourJob #SpareUsYourThoughtsAndPrayers

republicans need to stop waiting for instructions from the kremlin. Do something.

[DFW]

3. I'm glad to hear that this message finally comes out of Dallas

Maybe now the Republicans can stop whining that it's only coastal "libbruls" who really give a damn.

[BigmanPigman]

5. It is from a Dem mayor.

I read on DU that the urban areas in Texas are Dems but it is the rural areas that are GOP voters. It is usually urban vs. rural in most states and especially along the coasts.

[murielm99]

11. That is the way it is in my state.

We are making inroads. Many people who have been sitting on their hands for a long time are now scared and angry. They are turning out as activists.

I can remember going years and years, trying to get people to vote in primaries and local elections. They stared at me with their bare faces hanging out, even though I knew many of them were Democrats. Now they are joining all sorts of grassroots organizations. Suddenly, they know more than the skeleton crew of Democrats who kept the lights on for years and years.

[DFW]

14. That is unfortunately true

We in the big cities of Texas don't yet make up for the ignorants in the thousands of small towns--YET.

[Stallion]

17. I Believe All Dallas County Officeholders are Democrats

...but watch Mike Rawlings-he is in his last term as Mayor and is widely respected and has strong ties to the Business and Social communities in Dallas-he might be a Democrat that would have a chance of winning a statewide race.

[DFW]

19. It has been nearly a quarter-century since we had a Democratic governor.

It's about time for a change!

[Stallion]

20. Can't wait to Vote Tuesday

I got Collin Allred and Andrew White

[DFW]

21. I sent in my absentee ballot weeks ago.

I actually had a half hour phone call with Collin Allred when I was in Dallas in April. He called my office number, and happened to get me on one of the ten days a year I'm actually there. He was looking for money for his campaign, and he had no idea I would have sent him some even if he hadn't called. But, of course, he isn't yet a member of Congress, so I ended up giving HIM some pointers (!!LOL) about if and when he gets there. He has a tough nut to crack. Ever since Tom DeLay gerrymandered Martin Frost out of his seat (13 terms as our Congressman!) and the loathsome Pete Sessions got in, we have had as good as no representation in Congress from our district. Our district now contains our sliver of the city of Dallas plus a lot of Bible thumpers outside of town

[Stallion]

30. Yeah My Dad Was Dallas County Co-Chair With Martin Frost...

of Barefoot Sanders Senate Campaign which he lost by .5% to John Tower when McGovern got blown out by Nixon. He was a long time supporter and friend of Martin Frost too.

[DFW]

31. Tower was a nasty character, too

Tame by today's standards, of course............

Martin was sort of lost for while after losing his seat in Congress, but the cruelest blow was when cancer took his wife.

[onetexan]

26. Yes to Andrew

Will a fine gov like his dad

[RKP5637]

4. Excellent! So tired of this "thoughts and prayers" crap. n/t

[Moostache]

8. Here is the visual representation of what Congress will do yet again...

In this corner, we have thoughts, prayers, condolences and pious pap:






And in this corner, we have substantive actions, legislation and common sense solutions:

[RKP5637]

12. This congress is a total waste of taxpayer money. I wish we could do recalls for failure to

perform duty.

[ooky]

18. They are not only wasting it, they're stealing it.

They should show up for votes wearing masks.

[RKP5637]

29. Yep, it's turned into a criminal operation. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

6. "Thoughts and prayers" needs to fuckin' DIE...

It's just one of those overused appropriate-sounding phrases people say to feel like they're doing something... Words without intention and subsequent action are just noise...

1. It wouldn't be quite so condescending and insulting if we thought for a minute that our elected officials ever, you know, actually PRAYED OR THOUGHT...

2. These same elected officials are, at the behest of the NRA, going to vote to further erode any semblance of sensible gun legislation sometime next week...

And as an aside, Trump really needs to stop fucking adding "God bless" in his tweets... At this point he's saying it more often than the Pope does, and it would ring hollow even if Trump WAS a devout and active practitioner...

[Moostache]

9. What we need is a massive awakening...

Not just as pertains to gun control either...

The idea that a person cannot be elected to nationwide office - unless they lie about how much they loves them some Jebus - ESPECIALLY when damn near everyone with an above room temperature IQ KNOWS they are lying; needs to go too.

In a country where politicians feel comfortable saying they are keeping victims in their "thoughts and prayers" and NOT be run out of office on a rail, we get what we collectively deserve....NOTHING.

There won't be any more change this time than the last dozen times...I mean seriously, when 20 kids under the age of 7 were gunned down in Newtown and nothing happened, the soul of this nation died...nothing since has staunched the rot, and today won't either. Nothing will change as long as hypocrisy is rewarded and truth punished in this now full-on shit hole country. Nothing...

[RKP5637]

13. I think the US is headed for the shi**er. I also wonder how many people give a damn.

FFS, I think many are starting to normalize tRump. I seriously think this country has the potential to repeat Germany's grave error. Really, when I look at the tRump rallies, for example, I see the same potential.

[PaulX2]

7. Their Job Is Selling More Guns

To crazy people. Just ask them.

[mainstreetonce]

10. Turn Texas blue

Enough red bloodshed.

[DFW]

15. We're trying. Check out Beto's fundraising

Almost nothing to match that in recent history for a Democrat in a Texas Senate race.

[Cha]

23. Mahalo, DFW..

I know you are.

[Duppers]

16. AMEN.

[Cha]

22. Wow.. not a doormat for a mayor in Dallas, Texas..

Good on ya, Mayor Mike Rawlings..

Wonder what the mayor of Santa Fe, Texas(population around 13,000) has to say about this?

Link to tweet

"Spare us your thoughts and prayers and do your job." And, EXCUSES.

[ProudLib72]

24. And the very first response to that tweet is about how effective prayer is

It goes downhill from there with all the gun 'splainin'.

If this is people's response to yet another terrorist killing, we have a looooooonnnnnngggg way to go.

[DFW]

25. That's the hard part about dealing with the God Squad

They rant and rave about how effective prayer is--not because they believe it or expect you to, but because they are so desperately trying to convince themselves in the face of so evidence to the contrary.

[lindysalsagal]

27. They don't care. The "Pro-lifers are pro-death."

Never will.

[whathehell]

28. Bravo!!

'bout time.