Blogging the Texas Democratic Convention - David Van Os
No surprise, the man is on fire and he is rocking the house! My favorite from David: Ralph Yarborough used to say "Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it", but David is saying that now the jam is so high, the little people can't even see it!
His message: return our state to the people it belongs to - all the people!
The delegates loved David. We want more David!!
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Regarding the photo attached to this post... He realizes, doesn't he, that it's "Big Oil" that built Texas? And that the most votes in the state come from the Greater Houston area where thousands and thousands of voters are employed by "Big Oil"?
It's a nice slogan, but all it says to me is that he's not quite ready for primetime. He really doesn't think he stands a chance, does he?
The Big Oil we have now is very different than the Big Oil that built Texas.
As a former employee of a Big Oil company (and I left on good terms), I can tell you that employees want their company to behave ethically and legally in the same way that Americans want our President to uphold the Constitution. Right now, I'd rate the performance of President Bush on par with that of the oil companies.
I'm a proud American, but not proud of the behavior of my government.
You ought to check out the Oil Patch Democrats. I'll repeat it - it's not an oxymoron - Oil Patch Democrats at http://oilpatchdemocrats.blogspot.com/, and learn that not everyone's only concern is how much wealth they can amass - and that includes Big Oil's employers.
As a founding member of Houston's Oil Patch Democrats, let me ask you. Were you at the convention and did you attend our caucus? It started at 11am. When I got there at 10:50am, there was hardly a seat to be had. By a few minutes after 11am, people were standing at the back and still trying to come in.
We had John Courage scheduled to speak at 11:10am, so we commandeered the double size room across the hall. Again, we soon became SRO and overflowed into the hall. More than 200 people at any one time and for the entire 2 hours, as people had to leave for other caucuses, others quickly appeared to replace them.
DVO didn't address our group, like everyone there, too little time for too much to cover, but Hank Gilbert did. If you've heard Hank, you know he doesn't pussyfoot around the oil companies. He had that room in his hand and recieved more than one standing ovation.
Can DVO get people from the industry to support him? Count on it!! Maybe not the CEOs, but the Texas oil industry, the real oil industry, not the Wall Street oil industry, but the ones who have the same blood running in their veins as those wildcaters (DVO's own daddy is one of them) who sat in the board rooms with black dirt proudly under their fingernails. The ones who built this industry, this State, the Texas Democratic Party. So, watch out, we're back and voting down the CEOs who formed an unholy alliance with the wingnuts, for blood money.
I have to disagree with you on the "Big oil" thing,pal.Maybe 25 years ago,that might be true,but big oil has left Texas behind..at least the majority of Texans I know in North Texas and West Texas.Now,"Big Oil" exists to serve a few,while screwing the illegals that work for them,and abusing offshore bank accounts so that they don't have to pay taxes.Big Oil now screws the Texans who worked so hard to establish their companies,favoring Republicans in more than one way(money,power,legislation).I admire van Os for showing that democrats CAN and DO have balls to speak out on the big issues,and I support him 100%
"And that the most votes in the state come from the Greater Houston area where thousands and thousands of voters are employed by "Big Oil"?"
You know that would be a very good argument, but the vast majority of the workers of "Big Oil" are not getting the "Big Raises" and are also paying $3.00/gallon of gas.
So you observance smells.
Like gas.
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