East Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names to overcome voting problems

State Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell, is quoted in this Houston Chronicle saying:

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?”

“Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

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Bag of Randomness

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Today in Texas History, we learn of another fertilizer explosion that was larger than the one in West, Texas

Lots of crazy similarities . . .

  • Both involved fertilizer
  • The explosion in West happened on April 17 while the Texas City explosion happened on April 16, 1947
  • The names of both of the cities are quite unique, and both are of course in Texas.

If you are in a crunch for time, just skip to the 2:30 mark, and here’s the Wikipedia entry. It’s amazing that it registered as an earthquake in Denver.

[Thanks, Warren]

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