Shapiro To Announce Senate Bid This P.M.
The Plano state senator wants to take Kay Bailey’s spot when she steps down to run for governor. She seems to have the support of her state Senate colleagues, for what that matters. Question is, does she have $10 million in ready cash? For a Jewish woman from Plano, who has never been heard of outside of Plano, $10 million may not be enough.
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I wish her good luck with her fundraising from small businesses. She backed the idiotic margins tax.
May she go down in flames.
i saw that one coming from about 20 miles away
will say Sen. Shapiro always has been courteous and timely whenever i’ve called her office for comment
sure she’s a politician and all, but one that speaks relatively freely and candidly to a lowly reporter like myself gets some props in my book…still doubt i’ll vote for her if she does run
and as Mr. Allison mentioned, probably not enough name recognition outside metroplex (used just to annoy) to win anyway
What does her being Jewish have to do with it?
Yeah, what Beth Torah said. What does that have to do with anything Wick?
The fact that there has never been a Jewish statewide elected Federal official in Texas brings into focus the reality that Shapiro would be undertaking a TrailBlazing of sorts.
And TrailBlazing costs money, folks.
I’m afraid you’re wrong, Incognizant. From the Abilene Reporter News, 2007:
“The Jewish population in Texas has doubled since 1960, but has remained approximately static in relation to the state’s overall population – about six-tenths of 1 percent.
And all but about 4,000 of Texas Jews live in 10 Texas cities. Dallas has the most (45,000), followed by Houston (42,000), San Antonio (10,000), Austin (10,000), Fort Worth (5,000) and El Paso (4,900). Roseman estimates Abilene has about 60 Jewish residents, Lubbock 230, San Angelo 10, Bryan-College Station 400, and Beaumont 500.
More than 40 Jews have been elected mayor in 28 Texas cities. One, Martin Frost, served in Congress for more than 25 years, and Babe Schwartz and Florence Shapiro distinguished themselves in the state Senate. Bob Strauss was national chairman of the Democratic Party and Waco philanthropist and activist Bernard Rapoport has been a fundraiser for a number of political figures. The only Jew elected statewide in Texas, however, was former Supreme Court Justice Rose Spector, who served from 1992 to 1998.
Of course, Kinky Friedman made much of his ”Jewishness” while running unsuccessfully for governor last year, the book points out, even producing a bumper sticker that read ”My Governor Is a Jewish Cowboy.”
I think she may have greater state-wide name recognition than Wick remembers. She “championed” the Ashley Laws in Texas in 1995 after a 7-year old was abducted from a park in Plano and strangled to death. It was news worthy of at least four NBC5i newscasts, and I’m sure it got play statewide. I remember her being on the TV almost daily, and it won’t take much to remind the state’s electorate of that.
elected statewide is the key phrase there, Beth, as Incognizant is right in that regard
none of God’s chosen people have been elected to a statewide post in Texas
i’m just saying, he’s right…i think
Or the fact that DNA evidence revealed a decade later that the wrong man was probably arrested for Ashley Estell’s death and abduction. Blair is still a bad guy, but that’s like being guilty for being a usual suspect.
Congressman Martin Frost represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979-2005. He, in fact, was the second Jewish congressman from Texas after David Kaufman, who served from 1846-1851.
I’m just sayin’.
And, lemme guess, Jodie Laubenberg is standing by to take Shapiro’s place…and the new Collin County chair will appoint an heir to Laubenberg’s spot…
Nicely played, ladies, but I won’t be writing a check.
OK, i was wrong, thanks for clarifying
Shapiro still won’t win
I’m not saying she will or won’t win. I go back to my original point: What does her being Jewish have to do with it? Wick?
i doubt he’ll answer you
but i think he’s just saying that it’s tough sledding for a Jewish woman running for office here in Texas. that’s all.
same way it’d be hard for a non-white, non-Christian to win an office in Utah or how it’d be hard for a white, Irish Catholic yankee to get elected to the McAllen city council
there nothing racist, sexist or anti-Semitic implied in any of that
if you infer it, then that’s on you
Oh, so Florence has carried water for the GOP since forever, but because she’s Jewish, she’s going to have some “tough sledding” winning a Senate seat in Texas. Are we all that dumb?
I wasn’t inferring anything from what he said. That’s why I asked for an explanation. Otherwise he just left it hanging there.
I think I just understood that to mean that given the demographic (white, male, probably Protestant) she’ll be trying to win over, she’ll need more money than $10 million.
And perhaps that would’ve been the less inflammatory way of saying it.
Florence is well-known beyond Plano. The campaign team she rolled out in the Irving and Austin press conferences are big names statewide…none of whom are tied to just Plano.
The fact that she is Jewish as Wick uselessly pointed out is irrelevant. Adding religious affiliation to his post is the epitome of lazy journalism. Oy Vey!
No matter how you might want to slice or dice it, and no matter that Bethany, head cheerleader for FrontBurner Chat Heads can find a defense, the statement, “for a jewish woman” seem insolent in light of the previous article about us commenters being nice.
This reminds me of the anti-dentite episode of Seinfeld (you know that Jewish guy from New York) where they are at a funeral and Debra Messing makes a comment about the “jews and blacks too”.
However, the fact that Flo is a Republican Jew, it is apparant that she must practice
emotional S&M.
Bethany is a cheerleader… Jack watches Will & Grace? Who knew?
Amanda,
I think you have the wrong State Rep.
By the way……who is the new Collin County Republican Chairman?
Have I missed something???
Go Flo!
Lindy. You are correct. Brian McCall will run and win in that seat. While I hoped that us Collin County dwellers would, in him, have a Speaker of the House from here, McCall will be a great State Senator and there is a great bench of players from whom to choose to fill his House seat.
And, GO FLO!
It’s pretty simple, Wick is a Jew-hating hate monger of hate.
I find it funny that the liberals who want to highlight all our “diversity” get upset when we actually talk about it.
Wait… I um, don’t think I was cheerleading there so much, since I did agree with the fact that there was probably a less inflammatory way of saying it.
Does Jack actually read the entire post, or just every other word?
I was hoping for someone more conservative than Mr. McCall. We definitely need more conservative leadership in our TX Senate which leans a little to the left.
So a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or Zoroastrian could be elected with $10M. No one could; what does being Jewish have to do with it? Is it tough to write a column while wearing a long, white sheet?
if she was a Muslim, ya’ll would be fine with mentioning her religion (cause it’s okay to attack them people). Or even if she was a (gasp) Methodist. But when you call her a Jew, the sky starts to fall.
I don’t get it.