Texas GOP rejects ballot question asking if state should secede

[1srelluc]

Don't get philosophical. Just answer the question.

Eagle pass maybe.

 

[d0gbreath]

Eagle pass maybe.

Those folks won't be staying in Texas. See that bus in the upper left corner?
By shipping our new arrivals all over the country, we're actually experiencing a migrant shortage here.

 

[lennypartiv]

I say…..
Good Bye

Texans don't want to share a country with you anyway.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

‘A Texas secessionist group plans to sue the state GOP for rejecting a ballot measure asking if Texas should leave the U.S.

The Texas Nationalist Movement claims it collected the necessary signatures required to add the “TEXIT” question – asking “The State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation. For or against” – to the primary ballot. Under state law, the minimum number of signatures “that must appear on the petition is five percent of the total vote received by all candidates for governor in the party's most recent gubernatorial general primary election.”

But state party leaders say the group submitted the signatures after the Dec. 10 deadline, and that most of the signatures were invalid.’

Texas GOP rejects ballot question asking if state should secede

The Texas Nationalist Movement says it plans to sue the state Republican Party after it rejected a petition to include a "TEXIT" question on the March primary ballot. The party says the signatures were turned in after the deadline, and many were invalid.

www.hppr.org

It’s not just signatures that are invalid, ‘secession’ is invalid – un-Constitutional, in fact.

What you and many others fail to see, is Texas would be seceding from the country that has the Constitution that prevents them from seceding. Get it now?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

If they do, Mexico will invade them and take Texas back
Loyal Americans will do nothing to save them

Invade? What will they do, throw tacos at them?

 

[LeroyDumonde]

‘A Texas secessionist group plans to sue the state GOP for rejecting a ballot measure asking if Texas should leave the U.S.

The Texas Nationalist Movement claims it collected the necessary signatures required to add the “TEXIT” question – asking “The State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation. For or against” – to the primary ballot. Under state law, the minimum number of signatures “that must appear on the petition is five percent of the total vote received by all candidates for governor in the party's most recent gubernatorial general primary election.”

But state party leaders say the group submitted the signatures after the Dec. 10 deadline, and that most of the signatures were invalid.’

Texas GOP rejects ballot question asking if state should secede

The Texas Nationalist Movement says it plans to sue the state Republican Party after it rejected a petition to include a "TEXIT" question on the March primary ballot. The party says the signatures were turned in after the deadline, and many were invalid.

www.hppr.org

It’s not just signatures that are invalid, ‘secession’ is invalid – un-Constitutional, in fact.

Where does the Constitution prohibit states from seceding?

 

[Synthaholic]

I say…..
Good Bye

Me too!

 

[M14 Shooter]

Where does the Constitution prohibit states from seceding?

There is no text to that effect.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

‘A Texas secessionist group plans to sue the state GOP for rejecting a ballot measure asking if Texas should leave the U.S.

The Texas Nationalist Movement claims it collected the necessary signatures required to add the “TEXIT” question – asking “The State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation. For or against” – to the primary ballot. Under state law, the minimum number of signatures “that must appear on the petition is five percent of the total vote received by all candidates for governor in the party's most recent gubernatorial general primary election.”

But state party leaders say the group submitted the signatures after the Dec. 10 deadline, and that most of the signatures were invalid.’

Texas GOP rejects ballot question asking if state should secede

The Texas Nationalist Movement says it plans to sue the state Republican Party after it rejected a petition to include a "TEXIT" question on the March primary ballot. The party says the signatures were turned in after the deadline, and many were invalid.

www.hppr.org

It’s not just signatures that are invalid, ‘secession’ is invalid – un-Constitutional, in fact.

According to the old country they would be leaving. In their new country, secession would be legal.

 

[whitehall]

A case of damned if you do and damned if you don't? The Texas GOP did the right thing by rejecting the ballot but will no doubt be criticized anyway.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Think if Texas leaves the US with its 40 Electoral Votes and two Senate Seats

Republicans will lose both the White House and Senate

They will.

But we won't care; we'll have the Republic of Texas House and Senate to think about.

 

[Seymour Flops]

A case of damned if you do and damned if you don't? The Texas GOP did the right thing by rejecting the ballot but will no doubt be criticized anyway.

If the signatures were truly not legit, they did the right thing, regardless of how I feel about sucession.

If the signatures are legit, or if a future petition drives gathers the required legitimate signatures, then there is no reason whatsoever not to include the measure on the ballot.

Surely if the UK can do it, Texas can do it.

 

[whitehall]

If the signatures were truly not legit, they did the right thing, regardless of how I feel about sucession.

If the signatures are legit, or if a future petition drives gathers the required legitimate signatures, then there is no reason whatsoever not to include the measure on the ballot.

Surely if the UK can do it, Texas can do it.

Can the UK do it?

 

[LeroyDumonde]

What you and many others fail to see, is Texas would be seceding from the country that has the Constitution that prevents them from seceding. Get it now?

Quote the part of the Constitution which says that states can't secede.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Texas isn't going to secede. Good grief