Oh, Ricky..

Rick Perry is a shitty guy. He made the predictable, misogynistic response to Wendy Davis’s filibuster of SB5. He’s calling another special session next week to vote the anti-abortion bill into law. And it will be successful unless or until a court stops it.

You’d think a governor would have more dignity than to dismiss Senator Davis’s graduation from Harvard as something she “managed” to do.  Mr. Oops also suggested that as a child of a single mother, as well as a teenage mother herself, that she should understand this issue. And yet, he lamented, she doesn’t.

Mr. Perry, you look small because you are small. Your condescension only demeans you. Watching all the people in the gallery that night stand in support of Wendy Davis and the women of Texas gives all of us hope that a voice of reason still exists in your state. It’s sad that as governor, that doesn’t apply to you. 

Texas has joined other states that evidently believe that the Constitution really doesn’t apply anymore. Abortion is constitutionally protected, yet, states are doing whatever they can to circumvent that. With the conservative activists on the Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act was effectively gutted when they threw out Section 4. Now, voter ID laws are being implemented. In the case of Texas, that happened just hours after the decision was released. This disenfranchises minority voters the most. But that’s not convenient for the conservative agenda. Whatever doesn’t serve their needs, they just find a way around…until a court stops them. 

The problem is, people suffer while conservatives do this dance. And women in particular will not forget what happens. Three words, Ricky: Governor Wendy Davis.