#zaffirini

[enfin]

ATTENTION TUMBLR: IF YOU ARE CONFUSED, HAVE QUESTIONS, OR WANT TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD A STAFFER IN SENATOR ZAFFIRINI'S OFFICE IS ANSWERING THE PHONES AND BEING EXTREMELY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW. THE NUMBER IS 512-463-0121. STAND WITH WENDY.

[sea-wick]

Also lets not forget that while Wendy Davis did stand for 13 hours she was not alone and she had Zaffirini, Watson, Van De Putte, and the other two men who were stopping all the bullshit. 

And they fucking backed her up.

[the-neighbor]

ultimate tag team: wendy davis, leticia van de putte, and judith zaffirini

[my-feminism]

Zaffirini Appreciation Post

Senator Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo) represents the 21st Senatorial District. The first Hispanic woman elected to the Texas Senate, she is the second highest-ranking senator and the highest-ranking woman and Hispanic senator. In 2012 she was re-elected in an eighth landslide victory with 68 percent in a district that stretches from the Rio Grande to the Colorado River and to the Port of Corpus Christi and the Valley.

[pass-to-the-sea]

You go Zaffirini, make that fool looks more stupid xDD

[mistressandry]

My parliamentary inquiry is how do I become as badass a bitch as this? 

[bibliophile24601-blog]

Heroes of the Evening:

Senators Davis, Ellis, and Zaffirini. 

[southsteps-blog]

Missives from a Digital Lisa Frank Notepad

On Friday, Ross Ramsey of the Texas Tribune was either killing time on Facebook or astutely tracking down the prevailing sentiments of our state's lawmakers.

He stumbled upon a butthurt Senator Judith Zaffirini, who Dewhurst busted last week, revoking her Higher Education committee chairmanship.

Ramsey wisely took a screenshot:

He then tweeted the juicy screenshot with her response:

"Zaffirini says this is how she opens speeches and has nothing to do with losing the Higher Education chair."

She is, of course, a dirty liar...because the post seems to have disappeared into the Zuckerberg vault of questionable decisions, along with Facebook's scores of deleted weekend frat party photo albums and check-ins at Linkin Park concerts. Her passive-agressive Facebook post became a passive-agressive deletion.

I can't find it anywhere. If you can, let our Corrections Division know.**

I'm going to assume the worst. Zaffirini is calling Dewhurst a "loser"...and not the kind that spends their entire day creating Spotify playlists. She's threatening his 2014 candidacy, predicting he will lose.

The insiders forcefully assert that Zaffirini is one mean lady, and nobody should ever piss her off, lest they be vanquished by her ninja powers.

Somewhere along the way, I missed something. She can produce dozens of notebooks full of research about a bill and repeat party talking points with the best of em. But what the hell else can she do?

Zaffirini is a state senator. Dewhurst is the lieutenant governor.

If I were Dewhurst, I'd probably have a little chat with Zaffirini about her grade-school antics. If she whined, I'd take away her chairmanship of the other committee too. In fact, I'd appoint her chairman of a one-person committee tasked with teaching its members how to properly pronounce the word "fiscal," because she still can't get that one right.

I want to see the next iteration of Perry vs. Strayhorn, circa 2006-ish. Let's just say I'm bored. How did that one work out?

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In the interest of satisfying my inner conspiracy theorist, here is the text of Zaffirini's TheFacebook.com post, because her office will surely contact Ramsey to delete this photo, and I don't know how to take a screenshot on my Blackberry (emphasis not mine at all):

"WHAT DO YOU CALL SENATORS WHO TAKE THEIR RE-ELECTIONS FOR GRANTED? Losers!

The same word applies to officeholders who forget that friendship is a two-way street and betray their friends while trying to make new ones. The key to re-election is to expand your base--not to trade one group of loyal friends and supporters for another."

**The South Steps Corrections Division can be contacted by Googling "f*** off."