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Thu Jan 22, 2015, 10:27 PM Jan 2015

TX wingnuts lack issues (cough) so will make the cowboy hat the Official Hat of Texas

“Lacking issues” meaning, not addressing all the things Texas is near the bottom of, such as social services, school graduations, Medicaid availability, whatever whatever, a rich state always 3rd from the bottom just ahead of Alabama and Mississippi, or at the top in horrible things. And with the worse-than-Goodhair new wingnut governor (Greg ABBOTT) and LT governor (Dan PATRICK), the word is that ABBOTT will play "good" cop/wingnut while letting the other one look (more) rabid. Is Ted NUGENT from Texas? He's the default court jester for all these dweebs at their parties. Oh, the Inaugural cost $4.5M paid by donors for NOTHING IN RETURN OF COURSE, and there were (4 to 8?) TONS of brisket.

So this state representative has to fill up her time with a feel-good something, so cowboy hat it is!1

She’s from near-Austin so is probably a bit more laid back than most way-Wingnuts, her daddy was a Dallas cop near the Grassy Knoll when the assassination went down, and more typical of wingnuts who are SO “family values,” she was married sometime (in high school?) and Wiki doesn’t exactly know where she was born (Dallas?) then was in high school somewhere else, under a married name. Or something. Not only typical wingnut, more so typical wingnut WOMAN, is against things for women, AGAINST breakfast for school kids, FOR guns, FOR (more) tax breaks for business. She doesn’t vote on tacky things. She seems to be more interested in real estate and probably the schmoozing side of business, so her ratings from Wingnut groups are in the 70s, even low into the 40s, except for 93% guns. Yip, PARTY TIME, cowboy hats!!!!!!!!

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http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Lawmaker-wants-to-make-cowboy-hat-the-official-5994919.php
[font size=5]Lawmaker wants to make cowboy hat the official Texas topper[/font]

A bill filed Monday by state Rep. Marsha Farney, R-Burnet, would make [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the cowboy hat the official State Hat of Texas[/FONT]. This isn't the only whacky bill filed in the legislature this session. Look at some of the strangest and most important bills that will be up for debate.

This spring, Texas' love affair with the cowboy hat could be made official.

A bill filed Monday by state Rep. Marsha Farney, R-Burnet, would make the cowboy hat the official State Hat of Texas.

The proposed resolution cites the significance of the cowboy headgear in Texas' history as one reason for naming it the State Hat, as well as its prevalence in modern Texas culture.

"The cowboy hat symbolizes both the state's iconic western culture and the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]uniqueness of its residents[/FONT], and it is indeed appropriate that this [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]stylish and dignified[/FONT] apparel receive special legislative recognition," the resolution reads.

This is not the first time the cowboy hat will be discussed in the Texas State Legislature. In 2013, the House voted unanimously to make Garland the Cowboy Hat Capital of Texas due to the city's "hat-making talent."

Farney's office did not immediately return a call for comment.

[font size=5]from Wikipedia, Marsha FARNEY: [/font]

In the 2013 legislative session, Farney supported a ban on abortion after twenty weeks of gestation; the bill passed the House, 96-49. She voted for companion legislation to increase medical and licensing requirements of abortion providers.[20] Despite those high-profile votes, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Texas Right to Life rated her only 44 percent favorable[/FONT].[21]

Farney [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]did not vote on the taxpayer-funded breakfast program[/FONT] for public schools; the measure passed the House, 73-58. She co-sponsored legislation to provide marshals for school security as a separate law-enforcement entity. She supported the requirement of immunization of minors without parental consent, a measure which the House approved, 71-61. She supported the law to extend the franchise [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]tax exemption to certain businesses[/FONT]. Farney voted against the measure to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]prohibit texting[/FONT] while driving. She voted to require [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]testing for narcotics of those receiving unemployment[/FONT] compensation. She [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]did not vote on the "equal pay for women[/FONT]" measure, which passed the House, 78-61. Farney voted to forbid the state from enforcing federal regulations of firearms and co-sponsored another law allowing college and university officials to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]carry concealed[/FONT] weapons in the name of campus security. She voted for the[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]redistricting[/FONT] bills for the state House, the Texas Senate, and the United States House of Representatives. Farney voted for [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]term limits[/FONT] for certain state officials.[20]

In 2013, Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, managed in Texas by Cathie Adams, a former state chairman of the Texas Republican Party, rated Farney [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]70 percent favorable[/FONT]. The Young Conservatives of Texas rated her [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]53 percent[/FONT]. The Texas League of Conservation Voters rated her [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]79 percent[/FONT]. The interest group, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, founded by Michael Quinn Sullivan, rated her [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]40 percent[/FONT], low for a Republican member. The Texas Association of Business and the National Rifle Association rated her[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]93 percent[/FONT] and 92 percent, respectively.[21]

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