Debra Medina of the Tea Party movement is making a Sarah Palin-like impact with policies stressing property rights and gun ownership
Texas Republican candidate Debra Medina at a press conference in Houston this month.
Photograph: Pat Sullivan/AP
Read the rest of this entry >>Lytle is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of town, one of hundreds that dot the vast flat ranchlands of southern Texas. A smear of houses by the main highway between San Antonio and Laredo. Population: 2,383. The first streets only got paved here in the years after the second world war. A sewage system took a little longer, not being built until the 1960s. In short, Lytle, Texas, has never been big enough to have much impact on the politics of the Lone Star state. And few Texas politicians have ever paid much attention to it.
Until Debra Medina, that is. When Medina breezed into Lytle's community hall the locals found themselves confronted with a Texan version of Sarah Palin. She wore a sharp scarlet skirt suit, librarian-style glasses and a puffed-up hairdo. More than 60 Lytle residents had gathered to meet her, a hefty turnout on a weekday at 11am for a Republican primary election in the race to be Texas governor. Medina has become a political phenomenon in Texas. Emerging as a genuine star of the rightwing populist Tea Party movement, she delivers a fiery message of slashing taxes and the abolition of almost all forms of federal government, and issues dire warnings that President Obama is taking America down a slippery slope to Soviet-style communism.
That article was far less biased than US Big Media coverage has been. I have heard hosts use her quote of Jefferson to tar her as a blood-thirsty terrorist Kook. She is nothing of the sort... as genuine and forthright as the day is long, a complete antithesis to Toll-road Corporatist/Statist RicKay. I have been pleased to meet her three times, starting in March, 2009 and continuing through to the Monday night of last week. Last Monday night was the only time I saw her leave an assembly without first meeting each person, looking them in the eye and taking their hand/shaking their hand, or sharing a hug...which she HAD done the Sunday night immediately preceding, and I suspect she did in Lytle as well.
ReplyDeleteShe has kept a grueling pace, and most of those assembled Monday evening had also met her Sunday evening before.
That is faith in action, folks.
She has walked the talk, and she has developed a sound program for returning our Constitutional rights to Texans.
End the Rent (property tax)
End the trespass (border incursions onto private property, and abusive seizures under eminent domain)
Restore rights long buried under the growing pile of profligate governance.
All you Texans out there ought to support Debra Medina in every way you can. Thanks!