Best Advice to Texas Voters
No Nonsense in November
Run for your lives! With global terrorism limping behind as a far-distant second, the insidious spectre of gay marriage is here to destroy your family, ruin your neighborhood, and turn you queer in the process – or so would the cynical, grandstanding legislators that penned HJR 6 have you believe. The resolution prohibiting both same-sex marriage and civil unions is several things - smokescreen for the failures of the 79th Legislature, campaign fodder for morally bankrupt Republican politicos - but most importantly, a piece of legislation legally codifying discrimination in the Texas Constitution. Not so fast, says No Nonsense in November, an Austin-based political action committee. Led by a former legislator, Austin's beloved Glen Maxey, the PAC is out to remind Texans that with thousands of uninsured kids, underfunded schools, and an as-yet-unindicted speaker of the House, Texas has bigger problems.
*Oops! Due to proofreading error, in the Oct. 14, 2005, "Best of Austin" print issue, the word "indicted" ran in the Critics Pick award for Best Advice to Texas Voters rather than the correct "as-yet-unindicted." The Chronicle regrets the error.