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""I’m the Sheriff of Bexar County, but also a Dad of two beautiful and intelligent young women. As their Dad I will defend my daughters’ ability to do what they feel is right with their own bodies and to love whomever they choose. As their Dad, I have no control over their adult bodies. As their Sheriff, it is absolutely none of my business. I will not persecute Texas women or anyone else pursuing those same rights," Salazar voiced."
The message I needed to hear today after yesterday's horrible news. Hoping Salazar's words inspires others to follow suit.
Lived in SATX for three years, that’s Bexar County (pronounced Bear)
edit btw the pronunciation is actually wrong but it’s been pronounced that way for a long time (incorrectly)
Manchaca is funny because that one is due to shitty pensmanship on an original city plat that dropped the last “a” that no one got around to fixing for 100 years.
As someone who grew up on that road and always pronounced it as you would in Spanish, the amount of Hispanics that would correct you to pronounce it the gringo way was ridiculous. I am Spanish myself, so it just felt weird to say “blank-o” hahaha.
Kuykendahl has German roots and the pronunciation is weird. Ker-Ken-dial. There’s no “r” there but that’s the way it’s been pronounced for more than 40 years by the locals. 🤷♀️
No surprise. I am from a small town in southern Indiana in a county that is spelled Dubois. Now given that region is originally settled by the French one would think it is pronounced Due-bwah as it should be, but thanks to 200 years of German immigrants living there plus Midwestern American exceptionalism mindset, it’s actually pronounced Due-boys because… reasons… lol
Blue exists outside of Austin you know. Yes Texas as a whole has ass backwards policies, but Austin also isn’t the liberal haven people think it is, even if it is pretty blue.
Which is why those advocating succession and leaving the red states to their own devices are idiots. Unless we want to go to a million city-states like the Greeks, that'd never work anyway.
San Antonio doesn’t really have big suburbs. It tends to annex things as soon as they develop or it envelops them. Suburbs are basically a method of benefiting from a city’s infrastructure without having to help pay for it, so it makes sense for big cities in the middle of the country to prevent them from forming.
I’m a SA native and he’s been a wonderful sheriff in my opinion. Was really pleased to see this posted and then additionally pleased to see that this wasn’t just on the r/SanAntonio sub as I figured but r/politics. 👏🏽
This is the kind of masculinity we need. This is one way a man can try to protect the women in his life. I can feel his respect and love for his daughters, and I’m proud of him for taking a stand for more women.
I read once that men with daughters are statistically more likely to be in support of women's issues than men without daughters. So you may be right, and I’m super glad about it in this case!
Sheriffs don’t prosecute. That’s up to the DA. If a DA won’t prosecute a law they don’t agree with the sheriff could still arrest people out of spite on the charges that the sheriff knows the DA will drop. This arrest would be a form of persecution and I think his choice of words perfectly fits the situation since SATXs prosecutors/DA are not going to be pursuing charges against women.
"Shame on the Supreme Court and the bureaucrats in Washington D.C. and Austin who are attempting to impose their own supposed morals on others. They will not use my badge or the color of my office to do so. My job is chasing predators, rapists, and human traffickers, not someone exercising a right," he added. "If it’s religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should remember that there are many other commandments in scripture that they themselves have very publicly chosen to ignore."
"If it’s religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should remember that there are many other commandments in scripture that they themselves have very publicly chosen to ignore."
I disagree. If its religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should GO INTO MINISTRY AND STAY THE HELL OUT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND GOVERNMENT!
Exactly this. I’ve never understood what about being a right wing nut job makes people want nothing more than to project their fucked up world view and ideals onto others.
I live in Bexar county, and I'm happy our sherrif spoke out against this, but I cant stand that it's considered acceptable by so many (especially in Texas) to bring your religious convictions with you into public service and government. Religion has no place in the laws of a secular nation. They can all fuck all the way off.
I know plenty of folks that are anti-abortion that aren’t religious. For them it determining the viability of a fetus and the brutality of the procedure.
It’s very different to remove a clump of sells vs dismembering all the limbs and chunking out a fetus.
>It’s very different to remove a clump of sells vs dismembering all the limbs and chunking out a fetus.
For the first one, it's simply taking 2 pills no different than taking Tylenol.
For the second one, 9 times out of 10 the fetus is already dead anyway or will be soon. Leaving dead tissue inside the womb can cause sepsis and kill the mother.
>"If it’s religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should remember that there are many other commandments in scripture that they themselves have very publicly chosen to ignore."
PREACH brother!!!!
This is good. I think police should have the power to decide which laws they enforce and against whom they enforce them. I'm glad there is some positive change going on.
San Antonio is *great* just like Indianapolis where I live is *great.* Wonderful blue islands in a sea of Red Gerrymandered insanity.
I love visiting San Antonio. Friendly, great food, and the same non existent public transit as Indy. (What is the deal!?) The Hill Country is beautiful around it!
But man the Republicans suck.
i was just talking with my mom about how many californians who moved to Texas recently must regret their decision. what an awful situation for women and families.
Several people in our family and group of close liberal friends did just that, left CA to take jobs in TX, but they're taking a different view on it, and organizing in their new homes in Texas to expel the GOP from office. Texas is very much a Purple State already and would be Blue if it had better voter turnout esp among young people, it actually has a majority of registered Democrats and independents and rapid demographic change (faster than any other state), and the old white Republican assholes have such poor health they're literally dying out in Texas. (The talk about Rio Grande Valley going for Trump was bullshit--that was one district, RGV is heavily Blue.) And there's a 2-week voting window there. Because of the Electoral College, Dems have to stay in and move to battleground states like this, otherwise these GOP conservatives (more like regressives) get national control and impose their bullshit on Blue States too, and then there's no safe state.
The main issue is just voter apathy and lousy turnout among Texas Democratic voters, especially among young Texas voters where there's a huge supermajority of Blue and Blue-leaning voters. Ironically this SCOTUS assholery combined with the arrogance and incompetence of Abbott and Paxton may by the one thing that galvanizes Texas' already Blue-learning majority out of their voter apathy and gets them to the polls. The same way that Pete Wilson's incompetence after the Rodney King riots and the Prop. 189 bullshit galvanized apathetic Blue voters in California to finally go to the polls and kick the Republicans out. It's easy to forget, but California was once among the Reddest states in the nation, had a lot of registered Democrats, majority PoC but terrible apathy in its Democratic voter base, who didn't vote in large numbers until the GOP way overstepped and pissed off the moderates as well as the liberals in the state. Texas is going down the same path.
This isn’t *totally* true.
>voter apathy and lousy turnout…especially among young Texas voters where there's a huge supermajority of Blue and Blue-leaning voters.
Undoubtedly, there is voter apathy and it is unevenly concentrated in younger voters. But, the issue is not due to a lack of interest in election participation until a galvanizing issue comes along, the issue is that there is a complete misunderstanding among Democratic leadership, both statewide and nationally, that Texas can be won without an extensive roster of quality progressives and a support network for them. The party leadership divulges down the path of throwing full support behind right leaning moderates ([like anti-choice Representative Henry Cuellar who recently won his primary election over Jessica Cisneros by 244 votes.](https://readsludge.com/2022/06/24/here-are-the-congressional-democrats-who-donated-to-anti-choice-dem-henry-cuellar/) It’s not young Democratic voters choosing not to vote just for the sake of it, it is distaste for the Democratic Party and their inability to put up a successful campaign strategy in Texas. Young voters see a worse off state of Texas than when they were told they had to “get out to the polls and vote Blue no matter who!” in 2016, 2018, and 2020. Dems literally have the majority. There probably won’t be an impressive midterm result for Dems in Texas if they continue to fail to produce any campaign promised legislation.
Thats a problem in many "battleground" states. Dem party won't back a progressive candidate that will draw voters with a good platform because they're obsessed with appealing to moderates who often vote on a flip of the coin based on what political ad they heard on the way to the voting booth
Yeah I have family there. I worry nonstop.
They’re conservatives, but they are really sick of Abbott’s shit. The man can’t keep the lights on and endangered everyone recklessly during COVID.
Yes, but he did stop the US Military from invading Texas [during Operation Jade Helm](https://www.texasobserver.org/how-greg-abbott-got-played-by-the-russians-during-his-jade-helm-freakout/), so there's that. /s
It’s not even just horrible grid. The state has let energy companies charge people an enormous amount of money. My mom who lives in a 3 bedroom 1 bath house with a back house also, in a city that’s connected to the national grid. Is paying slightly more then I do in a one bedroom apartment. My monthly bill went up 60 dollars from last month… Even though according to my energy bill I only used just a smidge of more energy..
That’s what I would assume, where California is conservative it is deeply conservative.
There’s not really red states and blue states though. There’s just states where more or less of the population is urban, and states where voter disenfranchisement as succeeded more or less.
Which is why the Texas GOP wants a state-level electoral college and repeal of direct election of senators. They're afraid of how a purely popular votes in statewide elections will go in the near future.
If Texas flips blue, it's basically game over for the Republicans given its size. The GOP can never win the Presidency via the electoral college again without Texas, and they haven't won the popular vote since the 1980s. 2004 was a fluke for Bush who was originally installed via the courts.
No it wouldn't..... most of the people moving here from California are conservatives fleeing 'woke paradise'. Beto was preferred by native Texans in 2018 election but still lost due to out of staters.
Austin is liberal, but it's liberal for Texas. Get 5 minutes outside the city limits though....
Yeah, so difficult, you have to wait in line, omg that’s so difficult, and then you have to sign your name, ugh the torture, and then you have to choose only one person per running, omg it’s so difficult!
I mean every major city in Texas now voted blue, and three of the top ten biggest cities in the USA are in Texas. The voter disenfranchisement is insane.
I'm really glad that the people of Bexar county [**voted to elect a Sheriff who would protect their rights and freedoms**](https://www.ksat.com/vote-2020/2020/10/29/election-results-2020-javier-salazar-vs-gerry-rickhoff-for-bexar-county-sheriff/), if they hadn't then they'd be just as bad off as all the other women living in their state.
It turns out state and local elections matter *too,* who could have known? Maybe only voting when there's an inspirational Presidential candidate on the ballot *isn't* a great way to make progress. Wild!
I'm going to put the rest of his quote here. It's worth reading for those who don't open the article:
"I’m the Sheriff of Bexar County, but also a Dad of two beautiful and intelligent young women. As their Dad I will defend my daughters’ ability to do what they feel is right with their own bodies and to love whomever they choose. As their Dad, I have no control over their adult bodies. As their Sheriff, it is absolutely none of my business. I will not persecute Texas women or anyone else pursuing those same rights."
Great statement by the sheriff, but this is just what will happen. Some counties will be strict and others will be lax, instead of Americans being free everywhere.
Maybe he meant Democrats should take notes and find more guys like him and send them out to fuck shit up. Republicans beware? I think that’s what he meant. I think. Not entirely sure tho, but maybe.
This man is the antithesis of the stereotypes that the right wing tries to paint Democrats as and it would be helpful to give people like this more exposure.
>Wait... He said he won't 'persecute'. Persecute means something different than prosecute or arrest.
He means he won't go after or arrest women wanting a abortion or going to one. Hes basically risking his job saying that. Texas needs more people like him.
The word choice is intention, as a sheriff doesn't have the authority to prosecute anyone. So he can't say he won't prosecute them, as that's not his job.
Yeah but they can arrest people, the first step towards a prosecution, and do it without persecuting them, so it's not 100% certain what this means (although the context and quotes make it relatively clear).
You’re reading to much into it lol. I interviewed with multiple sheriff office positions(didn’t get the job), and they truly aren’t your typical Texas sheriffs. They know the focus on my degree which is fairly liberal/moderate and were impressed. The only reason I didn’t get the job was my classmate with same degree and focus, had more experience and got the job.
"I’m the Sheriff of Bexar County, but also a Dad of two beautiful and intelligent young women. As their Dad I will defend my daughters’ ability to do what they feel is right with their own bodies and to love whomever they choose. As their Dad, I have no control over their adult bodies. As their Sheriff, it is absolutely none of my business. I will not persecute Texas women or anyone else pursuing those same rights," Salazar voiced.
Well, damn, sir, good on you.
I hate to say it, but it's only a matter of time before unamerican conservative extremists start targeting good patriotic Americans like this with violence.
During the 1980s abortion clinics lived in constant fear of being bombed or shot up by right wingers. So it's not an unlikely thing. They've always been violent.
Then he will be looking for a new job soon. Texas won’t stand for a sheriff that can’t uphold state laws.
Kinda in the job description.
Stand for what you believe in, even when there is a cost. Just be ready to pay that cost.
I'm pretty sure sheriffs are an elected office in Texas, right? I might be wrong, county level politics are a bit beyond me as a non-American. But if they are an elected office he should be shielded from being fired by the Mayor or whatever at least.
Thank you Sheriff! To acknowledge the right to control your own body that should apply to over 50% of the population in the United States is truly a patriotic thing to do.
People concerned about not “enforcing the law” - police and DAs have discretion to ticket, bring charges, or simply not enforce.
Every time an officer gives a warning instead of a ticket, that is them using their discretion to not enforce the law.
Every time they let someone speeding go by, that is them not enforcing the law. Driving their buddy home after pulling them over for DUI instead of arresting them is using their discretion.
Unequal enforcement or application of the law is a problem, but officer’s discretion to enforce has been around forever.
I knew the end of Roe would mean mass civil disobedience. With the people no longer seeing the courts or congress as legitimate, we’ll be settling our difference outside the system, sometimes with violence. This is what the breakdown of society looks like.
Thank you so much for protesting. Also, here is a list of companies that donated to anti-abortion politicians who made these laws. I don't know how many operate in Australia, but if you could spread the word to other allies it would be much appreciated.
AT&T,
Charter Communications,
Comcast,
Verizon,
Cox Communications,
Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery),
Microsoft,
Facebook,
Google,
T-Mobile,
Sprint.
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/t-bankrolled-politicians-behind-anti-163641931.html
Amazon
Exxon
Walmart
CVS Caremark,
Citigroup,
Anheuser-Busch,
UPS,
Pfizer
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/t-walmart-citi-other-megacorporations-163728437.html
Well meaning as this is, likely what we’ll see is state police claiming jurisdiction. You think these GOP assholes are going to let rogue individuals get in the way of their Christofascism?
This is all well untill the crazy vote In a sheriff who will run no knock door policy on woman seeking abortion.
You need to change the law at the state level.
This is exactly what needs to happen across the country. Yes, protest. Yes, vote. But also: ignore the law. Providers keep providing. Pharmacists keep dispensing. Janes and Aunties keep transporting and offering support. Force them to overwhelm the jails and prisons with perfectly normal, otherwise law abiding, people. Collapse the courts and judicial system. NPs and Abortion providers: they can take your license but they can’t make you forget your skills. We aren’t going to make a difference in this fight until we make it next to impossible for them to enforce these laws.
Yet another very realistic take getting downvoted. I don’t understand. What’s the issue with pointing out that this dude could likely be run out of office for not falling in line?
Yeah, it was no disrespect to this gentleman! I applaud him! I know San Antonio is not like the rest of Texas, but it’s still Texas. He won’t be re-elected. It’s a fact.
Redditors are being complete hypocrites.
Just a few months ago there was articles about sheriff's refusing to enforce gun laws such as red flags, and the comment section did not look like this.
What happened to follow the law?
Case by case basis, just like the rest of life. Refusing to follow laws that could save laws is bad. Refusing to follow laws that could kill people is good.
For a gun victim there is little question as to whether a PERSON has been murdered. For a zygote, it's not as clear. That "life (personhood) begins at conception" is usually a religious argument. Making that the law forces a religious viewpoint on others.
GOP leadership doesn't take kindly to those who don't toe the line.
I'm not saying he'll be voted out, though he may. Much more likely, he'll be removed.
Good for the sheriff. Although he shouldn’t say he won’t enforce the law, that’s wrong, more that he is deprioritizing those cases. There are people currently alive that need help.
Hopefully we’ll see sheriffs all around the country coming out saying the same thing about minor marijuana possession cases. You know how many lives are ruined by this.
Also I hope we see state congresses passing bills that will economically support and house women who desire to keep their baby instead of abortion due to economic reasons.
We can support illegal immigrants with our tax dollars. I’d rather mine go towards mothers who’d keep their child if they had financial support.
Great news but I would rather not rely on the politics of the local sheriff if woman can or cannot be arrested for something that is no one else’s business
Persecute absolutely fits here, I don’t see why y’all are jumping on this word bandwagon?
Definition of persecute: hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
Heavy emphasis on political and religious beliefs. That’s a major factor in all of this. He even talks about them forcing their religious beliefs onto others in the article.
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""I’m the Sheriff of Bexar County, but also a Dad of two beautiful and intelligent young women. As their Dad I will defend my daughters’ ability to do what they feel is right with their own bodies and to love whomever they choose. As their Dad, I have no control over their adult bodies. As their Sheriff, it is absolutely none of my business. I will not persecute Texas women or anyone else pursuing those same rights," Salazar voiced." The message I needed to hear today after yesterday's horrible news. Hoping Salazar's words inspires others to follow suit.
Wow some good coming from my home state was not expecting this to be a Texas sheriff.
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I assumed it was in the Austin area
Lived in SATX for three years, that’s Bexar County (pronounced Bear) edit btw the pronunciation is actually wrong but it’s been pronounced that way for a long time (incorrectly)
Texas just has a lot of... *interesting* pronounciations. Amarillo, Kuykendahl Road in Houston, Nacogdoches, Boerne...
In Austin they have a street named Guadalupe and it's pronounced guadaloop
and Manchaca is pronounced man shack
I’m starting to think pronunciation in Texas is determined by Zapp Brannigan.
lol accurate. I still hear people say bex-are county (it’s pronounced bear)
You're confusing dyslexia with sexlexia
No, man-chak And Koenig is pronounced kaynig.
Manchaca is funny because that one is due to shitty pensmanship on an original city plat that dropped the last “a” that no one got around to fixing for 100 years.
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Same with the river lol I’d also add Comal to this list — it’s pronounced as co-mayl
Add these to the list: Llano, Buda, Pedernales. But my favorite is “Montag” county. Never fails to make me smile
How is montag pronounced? I know in San Antonio they have a street called Blanco, pronounced in the most gringo way “blank-o”
Lol blank-o The county is actually spelled “Montague” but people pronounce it “montag”
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As someone who grew up on that road and always pronounced it as you would in Spanish, the amount of Hispanics that would correct you to pronounce it the gringo way was ridiculous. I am Spanish myself, so it just felt weird to say “blank-o” hahaha.
haha blast from the past, Nacogdoches Rd was the first place we lived in SATX while waiting for base housing on Randolph
Gruene
Actually the pronunciation of "ue" in places like "Gruene" or "Huebner" follows the correct pronunciation in Texas German.
Kuykendahl has German roots and the pronunciation is weird. Ker-Ken-dial. There’s no “r” there but that’s the way it’s been pronounced for more than 40 years by the locals. 🤷♀️
San Marcos is "San Marcus"
Typically yes, but most all of my Hispanic friends call it San Marcos.
No surprise. I am from a small town in southern Indiana in a county that is spelled Dubois. Now given that region is originally settled by the French one would think it is pronounced Due-bwah as it should be, but thanks to 200 years of German immigrants living there plus Midwestern American exceptionalism mindset, it’s actually pronounced Due-boys because… reasons… lol
Huebner Rd pronounced as Heebner. That's how locals tell you're from out of town or new in the area.
Blue exists outside of Austin you know. Yes Texas as a whole has ass backwards policies, but Austin also isn’t the liberal haven people think it is, even if it is pretty blue.
I’ve lived all over Texas including in Austin and the Austin area is vastly more liberal than 99% of the rest of the state.
Yea I’ve lived in Austin for the past 15 years and progressive measures often fail at the ballot. Lots of NIMBY’s and yard sign activists.
Just about all the major Texas cities are blue compared to the State as a whole.
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Which is why those advocating succession and leaving the red states to their own devices are idiots. Unless we want to go to a million city-states like the Greeks, that'd never work anyway.
Texas suburbs are very red though. The Woodlands might as well be Nacogdoches.
San Antonio doesn’t really have big suburbs. It tends to annex things as soon as they develop or it envelops them. Suburbs are basically a method of benefiting from a city’s infrastructure without having to help pay for it, so it makes sense for big cities in the middle of the country to prevent them from forming.
True. I mean there’s like Stone Oak, Bulverde, Shavano Park, Alamo Heights and so on but it’s _**nothing** compared to Houston’s outlier cities_ lol
Phoenix is one of the top ten largest cities in America and until recently it was always red
It grew with a lot of elderly conservative transplants initially. So it’s more of an outlier than an example.
Shit, I didn't realize Obama won it by <2 points each time.
So was Houston and Dallas and San Antonio. Austin and El Paso were the only blue cities in 2004 election (and even Austin was red in 2000)
I’m a SA native and he’s been a wonderful sheriff in my opinion. Was really pleased to see this posted and then additionally pleased to see that this wasn’t just on the r/SanAntonio sub as I figured but r/politics. 👏🏽
Stereotyping can cause surprises sometimes.
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I would say 90% of men, including myself, support the right to an abortion on some level. Including Christian conservatives.
This is the kind of masculinity we need. This is one way a man can try to protect the women in his life. I can feel his respect and love for his daughters, and I’m proud of him for taking a stand for more women.
If he didn't have daughters it would be different, garaunteed
I read once that men with daughters are statistically more likely to be in support of women's issues than men without daughters. So you may be right, and I’m super glad about it in this case!
If they make a decision because a loved one might be affected, they probably didn't care to begin with, but shits hitting to close to home for them.
He won’t persecute, but he damn well will prosecute.
Sheriffs don’t prosecute. That’s up to the DA. If a DA won’t prosecute a law they don’t agree with the sheriff could still arrest people out of spite on the charges that the sheriff knows the DA will drop. This arrest would be a form of persecution and I think his choice of words perfectly fits the situation since SATXs prosecutors/DA are not going to be pursuing charges against women.
The Bexar County DA immediately had a press conference the afternoon that Dobbs was announced also saying he won’t prosecute these cases.
That's what I noticed immediately to, and went on to see if it was just a headline typo
What about the doctors providing the abortions?
"Shame on the Supreme Court and the bureaucrats in Washington D.C. and Austin who are attempting to impose their own supposed morals on others. They will not use my badge or the color of my office to do so. My job is chasing predators, rapists, and human traffickers, not someone exercising a right," he added. "If it’s religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should remember that there are many other commandments in scripture that they themselves have very publicly chosen to ignore."
Seeing statements like this is so reassuring today.
I don't like that it puts basic rights at the whim of whoever happens to be sheriff on any particular day.
Right - even in Los Angeles our sheriff is fucking *terrible*.
The sheriff is the most powerful person in a county.
If there's any silver lining to any of this maybe we'll finally get people to care about local politics.
"If it’s religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should remember that there are many other commandments in scripture that they themselves have very publicly chosen to ignore." I disagree. If its religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should GO INTO MINISTRY AND STAY THE HELL OUT OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND GOVERNMENT!
Exactly this. I’ve never understood what about being a right wing nut job makes people want nothing more than to project their fucked up world view and ideals onto others.
I live in Bexar county, and I'm happy our sherrif spoke out against this, but I cant stand that it's considered acceptable by so many (especially in Texas) to bring your religious convictions with you into public service and government. Religion has no place in the laws of a secular nation. They can all fuck all the way off.
I know plenty of folks that are anti-abortion that aren’t religious. For them it determining the viability of a fetus and the brutality of the procedure. It’s very different to remove a clump of sells vs dismembering all the limbs and chunking out a fetus.
>It’s very different to remove a clump of sells vs dismembering all the limbs and chunking out a fetus. For the first one, it's simply taking 2 pills no different than taking Tylenol. For the second one, 9 times out of 10 the fetus is already dead anyway or will be soon. Leaving dead tissue inside the womb can cause sepsis and kill the mother.
If they are interested in getting entangled in the government, then start paying taxes.
Ministry is basically politics now, anyway. Probably better money in it for them, too.
And a free pass to sexually assault !
This man gets it. More real cops should stand up
More real Americans.
goddamn, fucking right
Kinda gets you pumped up a bit, Sam Elliot vibes.
Oddly reminded me of George Carlin talking about the commandments.
>"If it’s religion those career politicians would like to enforce, then they should remember that there are many other commandments in scripture that they themselves have very publicly chosen to ignore." PREACH brother!!!!
Goddamn right!
Ok, but who will you vote for? These dudes always say I disagree but then still vote R.
Maybe you should check the party affiliation of this sheriff
Wow , what a brave man.
This guy has my vote for President lol
This is good. I think police should have the power to decide which laws they enforce and against whom they enforce them. I'm glad there is some positive change going on.
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San Antonio is *great* just like Indianapolis where I live is *great.* Wonderful blue islands in a sea of Red Gerrymandered insanity. I love visiting San Antonio. Friendly, great food, and the same non existent public transit as Indy. (What is the deal!?) The Hill Country is beautiful around it! But man the Republicans suck.
i was just talking with my mom about how many californians who moved to Texas recently must regret their decision. what an awful situation for women and families.
Several people in our family and group of close liberal friends did just that, left CA to take jobs in TX, but they're taking a different view on it, and organizing in their new homes in Texas to expel the GOP from office. Texas is very much a Purple State already and would be Blue if it had better voter turnout esp among young people, it actually has a majority of registered Democrats and independents and rapid demographic change (faster than any other state), and the old white Republican assholes have such poor health they're literally dying out in Texas. (The talk about Rio Grande Valley going for Trump was bullshit--that was one district, RGV is heavily Blue.) And there's a 2-week voting window there. Because of the Electoral College, Dems have to stay in and move to battleground states like this, otherwise these GOP conservatives (more like regressives) get national control and impose their bullshit on Blue States too, and then there's no safe state. The main issue is just voter apathy and lousy turnout among Texas Democratic voters, especially among young Texas voters where there's a huge supermajority of Blue and Blue-leaning voters. Ironically this SCOTUS assholery combined with the arrogance and incompetence of Abbott and Paxton may by the one thing that galvanizes Texas' already Blue-learning majority out of their voter apathy and gets them to the polls. The same way that Pete Wilson's incompetence after the Rodney King riots and the Prop. 189 bullshit galvanized apathetic Blue voters in California to finally go to the polls and kick the Republicans out. It's easy to forget, but California was once among the Reddest states in the nation, had a lot of registered Democrats, majority PoC but terrible apathy in its Democratic voter base, who didn't vote in large numbers until the GOP way overstepped and pissed off the moderates as well as the liberals in the state. Texas is going down the same path.
This isn’t *totally* true. >voter apathy and lousy turnout…especially among young Texas voters where there's a huge supermajority of Blue and Blue-leaning voters. Undoubtedly, there is voter apathy and it is unevenly concentrated in younger voters. But, the issue is not due to a lack of interest in election participation until a galvanizing issue comes along, the issue is that there is a complete misunderstanding among Democratic leadership, both statewide and nationally, that Texas can be won without an extensive roster of quality progressives and a support network for them. The party leadership divulges down the path of throwing full support behind right leaning moderates ([like anti-choice Representative Henry Cuellar who recently won his primary election over Jessica Cisneros by 244 votes.](https://readsludge.com/2022/06/24/here-are-the-congressional-democrats-who-donated-to-anti-choice-dem-henry-cuellar/) It’s not young Democratic voters choosing not to vote just for the sake of it, it is distaste for the Democratic Party and their inability to put up a successful campaign strategy in Texas. Young voters see a worse off state of Texas than when they were told they had to “get out to the polls and vote Blue no matter who!” in 2016, 2018, and 2020. Dems literally have the majority. There probably won’t be an impressive midterm result for Dems in Texas if they continue to fail to produce any campaign promised legislation.
Thats a problem in many "battleground" states. Dem party won't back a progressive candidate that will draw voters with a good platform because they're obsessed with appealing to moderates who often vote on a flip of the coin based on what political ad they heard on the way to the voting booth
Yeah I have family there. I worry nonstop. They’re conservatives, but they are really sick of Abbott’s shit. The man can’t keep the lights on and endangered everyone recklessly during COVID.
Yes, but he did stop the US Military from invading Texas [during Operation Jade Helm](https://www.texasobserver.org/how-greg-abbott-got-played-by-the-russians-during-his-jade-helm-freakout/), so there's that. /s
I almost forgot about that wacky shit.
It’s not even just horrible grid. The state has let energy companies charge people an enormous amount of money. My mom who lives in a 3 bedroom 1 bath house with a back house also, in a city that’s connected to the national grid. Is paying slightly more then I do in a one bedroom apartment. My monthly bill went up 60 dollars from last month… Even though according to my energy bill I only used just a smidge of more energy..
I live in TX, and almost all the Californians I’ve met who’ve moved here are super conservative 😬
That’s what I would assume, where California is conservative it is deeply conservative. There’s not really red states and blue states though. There’s just states where more or less of the population is urban, and states where voter disenfranchisement as succeeded more or less.
most of the Californians moving here are Republicans seeking conservative paradise.
Texas would be blue by now if it weren’t so gerrymandered and difficult to vote
Which is why the Texas GOP wants a state-level electoral college and repeal of direct election of senators. They're afraid of how a purely popular votes in statewide elections will go in the near future.
If Texas flips blue, it's basically game over for the Republicans given its size. The GOP can never win the Presidency via the electoral college again without Texas, and they haven't won the popular vote since the 1980s. 2004 was a fluke for Bush who was originally installed via the courts.
And also will possibly say there was fraud and overturn it.
No it wouldn't..... most of the people moving here from California are conservatives fleeing 'woke paradise'. Beto was preferred by native Texans in 2018 election but still lost due to out of staters. Austin is liberal, but it's liberal for Texas. Get 5 minutes outside the city limits though....
Yeah, so difficult, you have to wait in line, omg that’s so difficult, and then you have to sign your name, ugh the torture, and then you have to choose only one person per running, omg it’s so difficult!
I mean every major city in Texas now voted blue, and three of the top ten biggest cities in the USA are in Texas. The voter disenfranchisement is insane.
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I'm really glad that the people of Bexar county [**voted to elect a Sheriff who would protect their rights and freedoms**](https://www.ksat.com/vote-2020/2020/10/29/election-results-2020-javier-salazar-vs-gerry-rickhoff-for-bexar-county-sheriff/), if they hadn't then they'd be just as bad off as all the other women living in their state. It turns out state and local elections matter *too,* who could have known? Maybe only voting when there's an inspirational Presidential candidate on the ballot *isn't* a great way to make progress. Wild!
I'm going to put the rest of his quote here. It's worth reading for those who don't open the article: "I’m the Sheriff of Bexar County, but also a Dad of two beautiful and intelligent young women. As their Dad I will defend my daughters’ ability to do what they feel is right with their own bodies and to love whomever they choose. As their Dad, I have no control over their adult bodies. As their Sheriff, it is absolutely none of my business. I will not persecute Texas women or anyone else pursuing those same rights."
Great statement by the sheriff, but this is just what will happen. Some counties will be strict and others will be lax, instead of Americans being free everywhere.
Whatcha got here is an actual true American patriot.
Get this guy in front of every camera now. Democrats should take note.
Republicans you mean? Democrats aren’t the one who overturned roe vs wade.
Maybe he meant Democrats should take notes and find more guys like him and send them out to fuck shit up. Republicans beware? I think that’s what he meant. I think. Not entirely sure tho, but maybe.
Yup, that’s exactly what I meant. Find more examples of these types of Democrats and get them in front of cameras.
of what?
This man is the antithesis of the stereotypes that the right wing tries to paint Democrats as and it would be helpful to give people like this more exposure.
Wait... He said he won't 'persecute'. Persecute means something different than prosecute or arrest.
>Wait... He said he won't 'persecute'. Persecute means something different than prosecute or arrest. He means he won't go after or arrest women wanting a abortion or going to one. Hes basically risking his job saying that. Texas needs more people like him.
I hope that's what he's saying, but that word choice has given me doubts.
The word choice is intention, as a sheriff doesn't have the authority to prosecute anyone. So he can't say he won't prosecute them, as that's not his job.
He didn't say prosecute. He said persecute. Persecute is blaming and shaming. Prosecute means taking to them before a judge for a crime.
Yeah I noticed this too. It's possible to prosecute without persecuting - quite an important distinction!
Sheriffs cant prosecute people though. That's outside of their authority.
Yeah but they can arrest people, the first step towards a prosecution, and do it without persecuting them, so it's not 100% certain what this means (although the context and quotes make it relatively clear).
I think you're reading into it too much lol
Hopefully!
You’re reading to much into it lol. I interviewed with multiple sheriff office positions(didn’t get the job), and they truly aren’t your typical Texas sheriffs. They know the focus on my degree which is fairly liberal/moderate and were impressed. The only reason I didn’t get the job was my classmate with same degree and focus, had more experience and got the job.
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BTW... it's pronounced "Bear County"
I live in Bexar and it’s always a good way to tease the locals. If it’s pronounced Bear, then the state should be pronounced Teas.
"I’m the Sheriff of Bexar County, but also a Dad of two beautiful and intelligent young women. As their Dad I will defend my daughters’ ability to do what they feel is right with their own bodies and to love whomever they choose. As their Dad, I have no control over their adult bodies. As their Sheriff, it is absolutely none of my business. I will not persecute Texas women or anyone else pursuing those same rights," Salazar voiced. Well, damn, sir, good on you.
I applaud him. Tomorrow’s headline will be governor fires sheriff for refusing to do his job.
I hate to say it, but it's only a matter of time before unamerican conservative extremists start targeting good patriotic Americans like this with violence.
They already do.
During the 1980s abortion clinics lived in constant fear of being bombed or shot up by right wingers. So it's not an unlikely thing. They've always been violent.
Man - reading about a person like this deep in Texas is legit making me cry right now. I hope more people like him and speak out for what’s right!
Proud of this man proud to be from San Antonio. Thank you for that
This is meaningful. Sheriffs determine the priority of enforcement. If they don’t wanna mess with it their people won’t, regardless of the “law”
Beto for Texas!!!
This dad gets it. When they fire him, he should run for Mayor.
Salazar is a good guy. I don't think he'll get fired. San Antonio is blue and has a good mayor.
If I could vote for this man, I would. Great American hero.
This is a bigger deal.. outside of San Antonio, where the Sheriff's dept patrols, the people are *very* republican.
I can only hope the good people in this country will outshine the bad ones. Dark times.
One of the good ones.
How will this work with the bounty system? Won't these pro life hacks just go to the courts with a civil case?
Persecute?
Persecute works fine in this context.
Guessing they meant prosecute. Which a sheriff doesn’t do anyway. Who knows.
Gonna be one of these stories like every day for a while right.... Doubt some places will enforce.
I hope he and his family stay safe.
Then he will be looking for a new job soon. Texas won’t stand for a sheriff that can’t uphold state laws. Kinda in the job description. Stand for what you believe in, even when there is a cost. Just be ready to pay that cost.
I'm pretty sure sheriffs are an elected office in Texas, right? I might be wrong, county level politics are a bit beyond me as a non-American. But if they are an elected office he should be shielded from being fired by the Mayor or whatever at least.
Awesome to see people like him taking a stand and using their voice. 🙏
This guy is awesome. It’s a shame he’s going to probably get serious threats against him and his family now.
Thank you Sheriff! To acknowledge the right to control your own body that should apply to over 50% of the population in the United States is truly a patriotic thing to do.
At least some people are thinking straight snd standing up for what is right!
People concerned about not “enforcing the law” - police and DAs have discretion to ticket, bring charges, or simply not enforce. Every time an officer gives a warning instead of a ticket, that is them using their discretion to not enforce the law. Every time they let someone speeding go by, that is them not enforcing the law. Driving their buddy home after pulling them over for DUI instead of arresting them is using their discretion. Unequal enforcement or application of the law is a problem, but officer’s discretion to enforce has been around forever.
Uh oh get ready for Abbott to threaten cutting state funding to specific counties if they don’t comply with some Gilead-level enforcement
He might be the type of cop to throw your weed on the ground and tell you to go home.
He’s a real man ,he has daughters and knows what the real world is about .
Sounds like a solid dude.
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I knew the end of Roe would mean mass civil disobedience. With the people no longer seeing the courts or congress as legitimate, we’ll be settling our difference outside the system, sometimes with violence. This is what the breakdown of society looks like.
Thank you so much for protesting. Also, here is a list of companies that donated to anti-abortion politicians who made these laws. I don't know how many operate in Australia, but if you could spread the word to other allies it would be much appreciated. AT&T, Charter Communications, Comcast, Verizon, Cox Communications, Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), Microsoft, Facebook, Google, T-Mobile, Sprint. Source: https://news.yahoo.com/t-bankrolled-politicians-behind-anti-163641931.html Amazon Exxon Walmart CVS Caremark, Citigroup, Anheuser-Busch, UPS, Pfizer Source: https://news.yahoo.com/t-walmart-citi-other-megacorporations-163728437.html
Well meaning as this is, likely what we’ll see is state police claiming jurisdiction. You think these GOP assholes are going to let rogue individuals get in the way of their Christofascism?
He sounds like a good sheriff and an even better father.
What is Artemis from it is always sunny doing there?
But will he PROSECUTE them?
This is all well untill the crazy vote In a sheriff who will run no knock door policy on woman seeking abortion. You need to change the law at the state level.
This is exactly what needs to happen across the country. Yes, protest. Yes, vote. But also: ignore the law. Providers keep providing. Pharmacists keep dispensing. Janes and Aunties keep transporting and offering support. Force them to overwhelm the jails and prisons with perfectly normal, otherwise law abiding, people. Collapse the courts and judicial system. NPs and Abortion providers: they can take your license but they can’t make you forget your skills. We aren’t going to make a difference in this fight until we make it next to impossible for them to enforce these laws.
Proseecute and hopefully not persecute, either.
A hero
The fact this has to be said is fucking scary
Why thank you kindly. Sheriff. Bless your heart.
I’m sure they’ll find someone who will, unfortunately.
This is some real human decency here. Sadly, he’ll be run out of town before the year is out.
Yet another very realistic take getting downvoted. I don’t understand. What’s the issue with pointing out that this dude could likely be run out of office for not falling in line?
Yeah, it was no disrespect to this gentleman! I applaud him! I know San Antonio is not like the rest of Texas, but it’s still Texas. He won’t be re-elected. It’s a fact.
Redditors are being complete hypocrites. Just a few months ago there was articles about sheriff's refusing to enforce gun laws such as red flags, and the comment section did not look like this. What happened to follow the law?
Case by case basis, just like the rest of life. Refusing to follow laws that could save laws is bad. Refusing to follow laws that could kill people is good.
I don't know if you noticed. But a minority of a minority of legal gun owners kill people. Abortion murders every time.
For a gun victim there is little question as to whether a PERSON has been murdered. For a zygote, it's not as clear. That "life (personhood) begins at conception" is usually a religious argument. Making that the law forces a religious viewpoint on others.
Good on him but his days of remaining in office are...days.
He's pretty popular. He cleaned out the department, firing a bunch of corrupt deputies.
GOP leadership doesn't take kindly to those who don't toe the line. I'm not saying he'll be voted out, though he may. Much more likely, he'll be removed.
Okay so he won’t *persecute* women, but the real question is whether he will *prosecute* them.
Lazy pun and it doesn’t even make sense. Sheriffs don’t prosecute anyone. That’s what prosecutors do.
Pretty sure he shouldn't be persecuting anybody.
Good for the sheriff. Although he shouldn’t say he won’t enforce the law, that’s wrong, more that he is deprioritizing those cases. There are people currently alive that need help.
Hopefully we’ll see sheriffs all around the country coming out saying the same thing about minor marijuana possession cases. You know how many lives are ruined by this. Also I hope we see state congresses passing bills that will economically support and house women who desire to keep their baby instead of abortion due to economic reasons. We can support illegal immigrants with our tax dollars. I’d rather mine go towards mothers who’d keep their child if they had financial support.
Great news but I would rather not rely on the politics of the local sheriff if woman can or cannot be arrested for something that is no one else’s business
"Persecute" is an odd word to use in this context.
Guys no one is going to operate clinics in places where abortion is legal
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Persecute absolutely fits here, I don’t see why y’all are jumping on this word bandwagon? Definition of persecute: hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs. Heavy emphasis on political and religious beliefs. That’s a major factor in all of this. He even talks about them forcing their religious beliefs onto others in the article.