Posted by Skip Belt Jan. 10, 2011
Words have consequences when they create an atmosphere of hate or desperation and a rationale for violent and cruel action. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was specifically targeted for assassination and the bystanders and those persons seeking to talk to their U.S.representative were shot to emphasize the shooter’s antipathy for the [...]
December 8, 2010 by Skip Belt
The tax deal worked out between the Republican leadership and the Obama administration is being decried by the liberal Democrats in congress as a sellout or cave in to the Republicans who want to give undeserving tax breaks to the very wealthy. All this is true, but what is the [...]
Fort Bend Democratic Party Chair Steve Brown joined Houston Mayor Anise Parker and 240th District judicial candidate Fredericka Allen at the recent inaugural membership drive for the Fort Bend LGBT Political Caucus.
By Skip Belt
The heart of the current Democratic Party reflects its respect for all its citizens, its tolerance of diversity and its natural inclination to fight injustice and to protect and lift up the disadvantaged. Its approach to politics emphasizes the we as in “We the people”, rather than me, as in what’s in it [...]
Posted by Skip Belt, Pct. Chairman 2030 September
I am not going to pull my punches or be politically correct. I believe my criticism is well founded and accurate, although I wish it were not true. If the polls are correct and the Republicans win the mid-term elections and take over local offices as well as [...]
More today from Austin, where the Texas Democratic Party has filed suit in an attempt to discover who paid for a $532,000 petition drive to get a Green Party candidate in the governor’s race.
But really, deductive reasoning already told us who did it, right? The Green Party is sometimes said to be left of the [...]
