The resolution to put secession from the union on the Texas GOP primary ballot goes down in flames
Loony State Representative Tanya Robertson presented a resolution to the State Republican Executive Committee that would have allowed Texas Republicans to vote for or against secession from the Union during the March 1 primary election. The resolution states:
"If the federal government continues to disregard the constitution and the sovereignty of the State of Texas, the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."
Tanya claims that many of her constituents had voiced support for a reborn Republic of Texas.
Tanya and her fellow loonies managed Friday to get a subcommittee to approve the resolution. It went to a vote of the whole executive committee Saturday.
Tanya and her supporters on the committee argued passionately in favor of the resolution by invoking the spirit of 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence and the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence.
However, State Republican Executive Committee member Fred Henneke told the assembled members that "I'm not sending my grandson out with a 12-gauge shotgun to take on the 82nd Airborne.”
The Houston Chronicle reports that the resolution went down in flames Saturday by a 52-10 vote.
The Texas secession threat was brought up by then Gov. Rick Perry who was pissed off at President Obama’s executive actions which, according to him, bypassed the Constitution. While Rick may have been suffering from a case of temporary insanity at the time, the rest of the State’s loonies were quick to sign on.
The Chronicle did not report whether a group of men in white coats came to take the 10 loonies away from the committee meeting and onto Rusk State Hospital for some serious electric shock treatments. But sources tell me that some ambulances pulled away from the meeting, and that screams of “Remember the Alamo” were heard coming from inside the ambulances.
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