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Hopson said to be switching to Republican Party
Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, said this morning that Rep. Chuck Hopson of Jacksonville has told colleagues he is switching from the Democratic to Republican Party.
Hopson was facing a very tough re-election fight, considering signs of a national mood swinging against Democratic incumbents. He beat his Republican challenger last year by just 114 votes.
“It takes strength and integrity to stand against the special interests - and while some members have that strength, others like Chuck Hopson, apparently do not,” said Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie. “In the Democratic Party, there is room for members who are conservative and progressive - the only reason anyone would leave is for crass political reasons and a refusal to stand up to special interests.”
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By PoliticalJules
November 14, 2009 2:03 PM | Link to this
Good for him! At least one texan can see the democrat titanic has hit the obama iceberg and is sinking fast. At this rate the democrats will never be elected again.
If only they could see that obamacorn has picked the democrat party to be destroyed first. He is certainly helping the GOP which is very sad. The GOP has lots of problems itself, but obama has managed to bring them back into favor with most voters.
Wake up people and join with us to get the radicals out of office. I am not saying you have to turn to the GOP, but somehow you have to save your own party from the progressive radicals.
By larry
November 6, 2009 11:58 AM | Link to this
Bill, I’ve been in the very same boat, different Skipper. For many, many years I was Republican. I voted conservatively (Republican) in all elections. Supported Republican candidates, where I could. Something happened.
In 1994 the Republican Party changed. For the good at first. But, as time went on it just got stranger and stranger. I voted for GW in his first run. I reluctantly voted for him again for his second. This past voting cycle, I sat out. First time since turning 21 years old (the legal age to vote in the 60’s).
I’m am without a party. (No way would I support the Democrats.) I didn’t leave them, they left me. I’ve looked into Libertarian but their motto of ‘Protect my Shores, Deliver my Mail, and Leave me the hell alone’ just didn’t cut it for me. I looked into the Tea Parties….Too goofy for me.
I guess you can say I’m Independant. I’ll vote for the persons of whom I trust.
By Larry
November 6, 2009 11:52 AM | Link to this
Democrats turning on each other. It was only a matter of time. During the last presidential primary there was a battle between moderates and the more radical branch which won. Sadly the party has become a tool for their special interest groups…even has quotas for most of them so they can retain control. Republicans and Democrats have failed us again and again while pushing their left/right wing politics. I want to elect someone who loves America….used to be many of them in the Democratic Party but no longer after 40 yrs of putting America down.
By Bill
November 6, 2009 11:28 AM | Link to this
“in the Democratic party there is room for conservative and progressives”???? The Austin American should ban that statement by Boyd Richie as a lie and not print it under its new policies. I am still a Democrat. I did not leave the Democratic party it left me. When I go to my Democratic precinit conventions and speak my conservative views I get told ” you dont belong here.” “you need to be at the Republican precinct meeting.” I certainly am never selected as a delegate to the county convention but that is ok. I remain true to what I feel the Democratic party of the l960s which is open to all views—liberal and conservative. I still continue to vote in only the Democratic primary and never have voted in the Republican primary. So Mr Richie your words ring hallow with me. When was the last time you set aside a portion of Democratic delegates for people with conservative views like mine. You set aside quotas for gays, Hispanic, women, disabled, etc etc. but not set aside for Conservative Democrats.