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  1. M12BH

    Cruz vs Beto

    Just to expound, he's also been labeled as a Nazi sympathizer despite the fact that he is Jewish and actually, you know, was persecuted by and escaped from the Nazis in occupied Europe. He did a 60 Minutes interview in which he described his experiences and of course his story got completely mischaracterized and taken out of context to make it sound like he was a collaborator and that he enjoyed being one. At age 14 or whatever.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Yeah the picture weirdness was before the concert, and Beto was running late and he had to get onstage for the rally. Still and all, it seemed like they could have come up with a better solution. I'm not gonna bitch about it too much, I know everyone is doing the best they can. As far as Willie is concerned - I guess like you said, he's 85 and showing it. I didn't expect him to be at the top of his game but it's just sad to see the deterioration.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Quick update from the Shaggy 1% VIP experience last night. The good: Got to meet Beto. He's evah so dreamy. Pic to follow as soon as I get a chance. The not as good: We spent the first 2 hours of the concert sitting in a fenced-off area where we could neither see nor really hear the music. Waah. Also I don't know if they planned this out in advance, but when we formed the photo line, we were told that pics would be taken in groups of five, and they assigned us three random people to take a picture with and instructed us to decide whose camera we were going to use and then to exchange phone numbers for sharing the picture. By the time we got to the front of the line that whole plan had kind of fallen apart; people were just wandering up to Beto in whatever group formations they desired and taking pictures that way. We ended up with a random dude in ours but he was on the outside and can easily be cropped out. The good again: Once we got the pictures out of the way we got to watch the rest of the concert right up front from a VIP section. Noice. The not as good - Um, was it just me or was Willie's set not all that great? I don't know if he was having trouble hearing or if he's just old AF, but his playing and his timing were so off that it was affecting the bad. Not a biggie, though, I mean, given why we were all there. The best: Beto's speech. Holy fuck. I was all in before but now I'm REALLY all in.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    We'd like to invite you Backstage with Beto on Saturday, September 29th in Austin. The fundraising reception will take place backstage on Auditorium Shores ahead of musical performances by Texas legend Willie Nelson, Grammy-nominated artist Leon Bridges, Lukas and Micah Nelson, Carrie Rodriguez, Tameca Jones, and Joe Ely. For more details and RSVP information please visit the link below: www.betofortexas.com/AUS092918.2
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    Cruz vs Beto

    In. We signed up for the VIP thing. So pics, hopefully.
  6. This dude comes across as arrogant, entitled, petulant when things don't go his way, disrespectful to those who don't treat him with what he believes is the proper esteem. Kinda like...I dunno...the guy who nominated him. Given the similarities, it's fairly obvious why Judge K was chosen, and given all that is coming out, why the Repubs tried to shove him through without the customary transparency.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    I'll ask M12. He's following up on it for me. I'll report back.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    We're all in. We've got a campaign worker staying at our house this week while she attends training sessions. We're hosting a pop-up office at our home during most of October. M12 is taking the week of the election off to work full time on the campaign. I'm volunteering to drive people to the polls. We've maxed out our contributions to the campaign. We can fucking do this.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Well, thanks to Troph I will get to experience the phenomenon first-hand later this month. I will closely monitor his effect on me, emotionally, mentally and physically. For science, of course.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Ted prefers children who haven't been born.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    PM Sent
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Our eighth and final phone bank is underway. It's very obvious that Beto's name recognition has skyrocketed in the last five weeks. A lot more people we call know who he is. It's also gratifying to see how many enthusiastic young people are showing up for these things. I would say the average age of our attendees is about 23. NW Austin peeps, too bad you weren't able to show up, you would have enjoyed the, um, "scenery". No, no pics. I want these girls to come back if we have any more events. Anyway M12 is going this weekend to be trained as a volunteer trainer and I'll probably do the same. We're all in. We've also contributed the max to his campaign. That's right. The 1%, I am in it.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Yeah OK, anyone else gonna be there ping me. I'll be the redhead wearing the Beto button.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Sure. Me: "I'm calling on behalf of Beto O'Rourke. Beto is running for Senate against Ted Cruz.....blah blah blah....." Ignorant Person: "Who?" What? There's an election?" Shit like that. Yeah I know it's only August but with everything that's going on I'd think there would be a few more people who at least know the players in the game. Guess I've just learned, again to never bet against the complete and total stupidity and ignorance of the majority of the American electorate.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    We have our phone bank #5 tonight. Will be interesting to see how this last week's turn of events will affect the people we talk to. I've bee astounded thus far at the lack of name recognition Beto has (well, I've been astounded at how many people are totally clueless about and disinterested in the political climate in this country right now, but that's a whole other story). I wonder if that will change tonight. I hope so. On another note, thinking about heading up to Cedar Park Wednesday to see the man himself. 9:30 start time, what time do I need to show up to get a seat? Anyone been to one of these things yet?
  16. All I know is I have a nice string of pearls that I used to wear a lot for business, they were very classy and understated and went perfectly with most of my suits but now they are tainted AF and I want to toss them on the garbage heap. Thanks SHS.
  17. SIAP, and can't embed, but this is important y'all. And in my hood, not that it matters, but this area is frequented by 80 gazillion cars a day and it seems impossible that no one saw anything. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/missing-woman-last-seen-on-loop-360-walking-away-from-broken-down-car/1389166765
  18. I heard some of that shit from some of my Trump supporter acquaintances right after the election -"He's a great man with a beautiful family who is working hard for America. He doesn't need to do this, he's already rich, he is just suuuuuuch a patriot that he wants us all to share in his prosperity and he's working 'round the clock for us all, just because he's a great and wonderful guy!" I guess they figure we've all got short enough memories to where we'll forget when they start recycling their shitty talking points. Or maybe they're so stupid that they've forgotten they've already tried this one. Either way....
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Call bank #3 is in da books. We had six people doing yeoman's work. Also I got rid of my two extra t-shirts and my yard sign that MB12 and I double-ordered. You know, not that we need any more examples of their rank and stunning hypocrisy, but I wonder what the Republicans beshitting themselves over Beto's arrest record have to say about Paxton's. Because nothing says "Honest Conservative" quite like supporting a State Attorney General indicted for fucking securities fraud, apparently.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    It took 27 minutes. Y'all are slacking.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    We have 11 people signed up for our Beto phonebank tomorrow night. I say gottdam. Don't know where we're going to put them all. You know, as far as conservative vs. liberal is concerned - I have a slightly different take on it than most of y'all because I have a vagina. And the way I see it, one of the parties wants to get all up in my wallet and the other one wants to get all up in my vagina. So it comes down to, which do I value most? Wait for it....wait for it.....VAGINA. So as much as wasteful spending irritates the fuck out of me, I'd rather throw a bit more coin at the feds and be able to do what I want with my vagina.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Beto Phone Bank #2 of 7 at la casa last night. Lots of positivity and energy and excitement. No references to Whataburger. Looking forward to #s 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Oh yeah and noticed the first "Cruz" sign in the 'hood, at the big house on the hill on the corner of Valburn and Ladera Norte. For the last couple of month's he's had a John Galt sign up - changed it to Ted in the last few days. Fuck that guy.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    I'll get an invite out to you tomorrow. Bring the fam. The more the merrier. And, for some reason, the more people using the Beto Dialer (yes, it's really called that), the more efficiently it works. I have to say as sick as I am about this whole shitstain of a country we're becoming, it does feel good to actually become involved and try to do something about it. I was a political virgin until this campaign. Now I'm a dirty Beto whore. So to speak.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    Hmm. Was he the first, fourth or fifteenth Surlyite I spoke to? Get your ass over here son, you're a neighbor. Drag JimmyJazz along with you. Dammit.
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    Cruz vs Beto

    I got people at my house making calls for Beto tonight. You might have talked to me or Macallan12, yo. Srsly please bear with us if you get multiple calls. We're working off a list of publicly available voters and obviously there are some duplicates, etc. Part of what we're doing now is trying to scrub the lists and get everything consolidated. If you get multiple calls please let the callers know and we'll try to fix it. Yeah there are a lot of youngsters working for Beto. If we can survive this current shit we just might be in good hands. On Edit - we're doing a lot more of these phone banks so if you're in Austin (NW) and interested, holla and we'll fix you up. It's a really interesting experience.
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