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Default Another Texan makes his mark

On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:27:22 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:06:39 -0700, jps wrote:


A Texas legislator let one slip on Thursday when he presented his case
for quick payments to storm damage victims by saying, “Don’t nitpick,
don’t try to Jew them down.”


I imagine Kinky Friedman and the other 3 Jews in Texas were offended.
;-)


There's plenty of Jews in Texas and throughout the south. Why they'd
stay there is a mystery to me.

That doesn't make his words any less destructive. That phrase has
always been disgusting, even when I heard it in middle school in the
60s. Some people have no class, and Texas has more than its share.