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Besides that he unseated a very tenured Dem in the TeaBagger sweeps, he is the grandson of Liberal candidate for governor in Texas in 1972(?), Sissy FARENTHOLD, who said she endorsed him because blood-etc. but regretting his winning meant a Dem would lose.
In the campaign the future congresscritter successfully dismissed his ducky PJs and the babe in the picture. Now his sister is in her own picture, as a mob moll. Hookay.
Oh, top row: the moll; two bad boys; the PJs. Bottom row: Sissy FARENTHOLD; congresscritter in his offical office costume.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168460/Sister-Texas-Rep-Blake-Farenthold-arrested-SWAT-raid-finds-meth.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
[font size=5]Sister of Texas Congressman arrested after SWAT team raids her house and finds methamphetamine and guns[/font]
A SWAT team arrested the sister of a Texas Congressman on drug charges after raiding her home following a standoff with armed officers. Police say they found methamphetamine and guns inside the Corpus Christie home of Sue Farenthold -- who was charged along with three accomplices, one of whom is a known gang member. Farenthold's older brother is Blake Farenthold, a freshman Tea Party Republican, whose victory in 2010 was one of the biggest upsets of the election.
Heavily-armed SWAT officers and US Marshals surrounded Sue Farenthold's house in a quiet neighborhood on Monday afternoon after receiving reports that a known gang member was hiding out there, KRIS-TV reported.
Farenthold and three men who were inside the home barricaded themselves inside and refused to come out.
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Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)the repukes could nominate serial killers, insane people, people with 70 IQs, people with rabies, and so on, and they'd still get elected.
UTUSN
(70,652 posts)Vassar, line of lawyers/judges, only the 3rd woman nominated for V-P (& first serious one) beating out GRAVEL, Birch BAYH, and Jimmie CARTER, ran for governor twice.
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Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold (born 1926), commonly referred to as Sissy Farenthold, is an American Democratic politician, attorney, activist, and educator. She is best known for her run for Texas Governor and for her nomination for Vice President in the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
Farenthold was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1926, and she graduated from Vassar College in 1946. In 1949, she graduated from the University of Texas School of Law. She was one of only three women in a class of 800. Farenthold comes from a line of lawyers and judges. Her grandfather was Judge Benjamin D. Tarlton, Sr., Chief Justice of the Texas Court of Civil Appeals state legislator, professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and namesake of the UT Tarlton Law Library.[1] Her father, B. Dudley Tarlton, Jr., was also an attorney.
Farenthold started her political career in the 1968 when she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives, in which she represented Nueces and Kleberg counties. She was the only woman serving in the Texas House at the time. Senator Barbara Jordan was then the only woman serving in the Texas Senate. They co-sponsored the Equal Legal Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution.[2]
Farenthold was the third woman whose name was put into nomination for Vice President of the United States at a major party's nominating convention (the first was Lena Springs, who was not a public official and whose 1924 nomination was a gesture of affection, and the second was India Edwards in 1952, whose nomination was also a gesture of gratitude for her influence over Harry Truman). At the Democratic National Convention in 1972, she came in second to the presidential nominee's choice, U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri. She garnered more delegate votes (404.04) than then-U.S. Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, and future U.S. President Jimmy Carter of Georgia, among others.
In both 1972 and 1974, she unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas, having been defeated both times by Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde, a more conservative Democrat. In 1973, she was elected as the first chair of the National Women's Political Caucus.[3] She later served as president of Wells College in Aurora, New York, from 1976-1980.
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Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)So she is 86 years old?
kag
(4,078 posts)Sissy is (was?) 86, step grandmother of the congressman. Sue, the sister of the congressman, was the one arrested.
eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)His own Wiki page will no doubt be updated soon.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)Mopar151
(9,975 posts)Of all the current villans pictured, I find "Ducky" the most repellent.
eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)Kennah
(14,234 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Meth addiction is an equal opportunity disease. I hope for the sake of her family that she gets some help.
UTUSN
(70,652 posts)My second post was agog over her Dem credentials. However, somebody's PJs is a choice, haha.
To be fair...she was probably high when she endorsed him
derby378
(30,252 posts)Nobody could dissect a political disaster in Texas like Molly.
dmr
(28,344 posts)This is truly bizarre.
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)dmr
(28,344 posts)Ever see that CSI episode where a casino owner was into a baby fetish? Wore diapers in his secret playroom & forced a woman to bottle feed him & change his diapers. (she ended up murdering him)
idk, that's the first thing that came to mind. Physically they both look alike.
I've seen this guy speak on TV, & sounded like a big idiot. Seriously, he made no sense.
Thanks for the links.