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Why won't Rick Perry invite women to join him at the dinner table?
That's the question everyone's asking after the Dallas Morning News revealed that Perry's planning a "male-oriented" fundraising dinner where "a few, select men can pay $15,000 each to eat pheasant and wild sausage and have meaningful conversation with the governor."
How about their wives and "significant others"? Well, they're welcome to join the men for post-dinner festivities.
Only in Rick Perry's Texas would the voices of women be considered so unwelcome.
Please contribute $5 toward Bill White's 5,000-donation goal right now to elect a governor who will make sure every Texan has a seat at the table.
It's no wonder Rick Perry can't prepare Texas for the 21st century; he's still stuck in the 19th.
As Christy Hoppe, a writer for the Dallas Morning News, quipped, Rick Perry must want to keep women away from the dinner table so as not to "worry their pretty little heads over all the big words, male talk and cigar smoke."
Whatever Rick Perry's reason for excluding women from his "meaningful" dinner conversation, it's just plain wrong. But this is exactly how Rick Perry runs his state: Some people are invited to the table, and other people simply aren't.
Please contribute $5 toward Bill White's 5,000-donation goal right now to elect a governor for all Texans.
We need a governor who believes that every Texan ought to be at the table when decisions are made or when policy is discussed with the governor.
Thank you for everything you do to elect a governor who'll respect the views of every Texan.
Sincerely,
Ann TravisSenior Advisor
Bill White for Texas
P.S. Perry's press spokesperson claims that females are welcome, but the invitation says the attire is "blue jeans, boots & sport coat." This is the second "wild game" dinner and Perry's campaign hasn't released the names of those who attended the first.
Edit: I have no idea what that corrected formatting was about.
23 comments:
I don't want a male governor of Texas that doesn't need a little "guy" time now and then. Does anyone give a peep when women in power convene with only other women, or leaders of color convene only with people of color?
Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.
When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.
When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.
We cannot expect the Lawyers Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.
The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!
I like Rick Perry as a politician about as much as I like watching Gary Busey trying to act.
@ aroundthecorner: I enjoyed those comments. Makes sense to me. But realistically, how can we ever reduce the laws already on the books, how can we ever again have a conservative congress (regardless of which party has the majority), how can we keep needed reforms that have occurred, such as women's rights, eliminating racism, etc., but move away from the political correctness that has become so overboard (selectively, of course)?
There is a supposedly "tuned in" Aggie where I work who says that in Aggie social circles, it is common knowledge that Rick Perry enjoys the company of men over women, particularly in the bedroom. Anyone ever heard that before? Most of us just ignore it, but the guy is adamant there is something to it.
I'd vote for Gary Busey.
Goober, I've been hearing that for years from all kinds of sources.
Rick Perry - One of the boys.
My Other Brother Darryl
Bill White is an Obammy backer!!I can't stand Little Ricky Perry from Paint Creek but Obama backers are worse.Once again ..lesser of 2 evils!!!
I'll believe Perry is gay when I hear it from Breitbart.com. He seems to be one of the few investigative reporters. ACORN? Shirley Sherrod?
Why does every meeting of every kind have to have a woman a chinaman,a disabled vet,a retarded child and so much other crap that the whole meaning of it in the first place is lost.CRAP!!!Get over it!
WWBD
I am looking to buy a new car and can not decide between going to James Woods or Luttrell Chevy for my car. I am leaning town Luttrell because he serves our community and is a good person.
Linda Chavez-Thompson will fight redistricting in Texas!
I remarked to my sister recently about Rick Perry and his celebrated hair and she said that up close Perry and his hair just look old. Broads are mean, man. She was at a factory groundbreaking with Perry and Dewhurst that brought a couple of thousand jobs to Texas.
As for me, I'm in the ghetto drinking 40's.
Perry is a jerk, but will White be any better? "EVERY Texan invited to the table"........?
What a stupid statement - a total CROCK......
White will do as Perry does. Invite cronies and lobbyists to the table.
Wrong on both counts......
Maybe Rick Perry should campaign with the commissioner who shares the name of a Dallas Cowboy. Apparently he thinks the same of women too.
Commissioner White should do a fund raiser in Decatur at Braums. 10 dollars a plate, with elderly females only as guests.
Perry sounds a lot like our Pct. 1 Commissioner!
Well folks, get a WOMAN to run for Precinct 1 commissioner.
Great idea 7:44! We need a lady who wears her ovaries on the outside!
uhhh...Hello??? James Wood does so much for this county..go buy your car(s) there!!!! From sponsoring kids' stuff, to the recent WARM donations, I can't even begin to name them all, and some are not reported. I am not knociking the other guy, but at least James' taxes benefit the city..Go James Wood!!!
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