Frustrated by bigotry, extremism and the government shutdown, yet another Republican has left the party. The latest is Carlo Key, a Texas judge, who released a video Sunday explaining his decision to switch parties and join Democrats, saying the Republican Party has left him.

“Justice can only be served without prejudice toward race, color, creed, or whom you choose to love,” the Bexar County judge said in his re-election video. “These principles have served as the bedrock upon which my rulings have been made. They are also my driving force. That is why I can no longer be a member of the Republican Party.”

Key specifically juxtaposes his opposition to the party with the recent actions of fellow Texan Ted Cruz, showing video and headlines of the senator as he talks about the death of “rational Republican beliefs” in the GOP.

“For too long the Republican Party has been at war with itself. Rational Republican beliefs have given way to ideological character assassination,” he said.

“Pragmatism and principle have been overtaken by pettiness and bigotry.”

“Make no mistake, I have not left the political party, it has left me,” he added. “I cannot tolerate a party that demeans Texans based on their sexual orientation, the color of their skin, or their economic status.”

Key also called out fellow San Antonion Republican Elisa Chan, a city councilwoman who was caught on tape in a homophobic rant earlier this year. After those comments were made public, she announced she would run for state Senate.

“I will not be a member of a party in which hate speech elevates candidates for higher office, rather than disqualifying them,” Key said, admonishing Chan. “I cannot place my name on the ballot for a political party that is proud to destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands of federal workers over the vain attempt to repeal a law that will provide healthcare to millions of people throughout our country.”

On his Facebook page, Key celebrated his switch to the party with a photo showing him alongside fellow Democrats like Trey Fischer-Martinez – a state representative who joined a small White House meeting on the Voting Rights Act this summer – and Rep. Joaquin Castro.

“My principles have led me to the Democratic Party,” he added. “I can only hope that more people of principle will follow.”

Key joins a handful of Republicans who’ve left the party in recent months and years. In May, a former RNC Latino outreach director took a stand “against the culture of intolerance” by announcing he would leave the GOP. The co-chair of the Polk County Republican Party listed “hateful” rhetoric in his reasoning when he left the party this August. Higher profile party leaders like Lincoln Chafee and Charlie Crist left the GOP to become independents in 2010, only to join the Democratic Party eventually.

http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/meet-the-republican-who-quit-his-party

Wow! I bet that this made national headlines...oh, wait, it's only on MSNBC. Wonder why?

Provide Healthcare? it's an extortion racket... it's set up to just make you get healthcare, doesn't provide anything... if that judge is that stupid, he should go to democrats... sounds like a made up story anyway...

How many fatassed politicians does it take to make a handful?

Bla, bla, bla...

A state senator from Louisiana who recently announced his departure from the Democratic Party to become a Republican says the party of President Obama is one of “overseers.”

State Sen. Elbert Guillory released a video Sunday explaining his reason for leaving the Democrats, citing their opposition to civil rights, their attitudes toward people and their desire for “control.”



He said the black community, which he invited to join him in the move, should quit exchanging self-reliance for the “allegiance of overseers” through government programs that are intended not to help people, but to control them.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/black-democrat-abandons-party-of-slaves/



In West Virginia, a fed-up Democratic state senator is changing parties — and hoping to represent his state in Congress.

State senator Evan Jenkins is done with President Obama’s vision for America. “The Obama agenda has become crystal clear,” he says, pointing to the president’s support for “immigration reform that includes amnesty provisions” as well as “his limitations on our constitutional rights relating to gun ownership,” “his environmental agenda, which spells the end of coal and coal jobs,” and “the government takeover of health care.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354892/obamas-america-democrats-turning-republican-katrina-trinko

hell yea baby, slap it out there! one or two idiotic republicans are nothing compared to the dems jumping ship..

Yes its good to see these black Dems waking up and realizing the Dem party has been using them all along and joining the party of freedom and self determination!

*nods approval*

Hello Red!

Hey Leigh..good to see ya

lol at party of freedom,,,,

free to be poor and die,, unless you can pull yourself up by bootstraps you cant afford to buy...lol



more like party of snake oil

'government is bad, we will prove it by letting you keep more of the money you 'earn' , and when defunding and lack of funding lead to improperly functioning government,, we will use THAT as proof that government is bad',,,,

poor people , bad lazy, taxpayers, moral and hard working and deserving

stop assisting the poor folks cause then they will do nothing to help themselves,,

blah, blah . blah

Snake oil?

snake oil

1. A worthless preparation fraudulently peddled as a cure for many ills.


as in 'smaller government would fix it all',,

or

' lets take the country BACK' (more like backwards, when times were decidedly much better for SOME people who are finally seeing some of the conditions that affected 'those' people in the more perfect times,, beginning to affect them too)


..blah. blah , blah

That snake oil chit sounds like something Al Sharpton would recommend...

no mention of al Sharpton, not sure of the relevance,

never heard him speak of small government
or taking america 'back',,,

Selective hearing....

selective hearing at it's best... the republicans want people to help themselves, not just cut out everything at once like you seem to think... you know as well as i do there are millions of people using and scamming the system, making a very bad drain on our economy... but you and the libs want to keep them on the "life support" to earn votes... do you really think it's helping people to give them free food and money all the time?

I know people scam EVERY service and institution there is, that has nothing to do with cutting those services and institutions

republicans continue to spread the nonsense that people are receiving things 'all the time', or that its in any way 'free'

I get literally sick of hearing it,, most who repeat it can proudly claim they have never been on it,, yet they know all about what those who are on it do or don't do or how much they get and for how long

if people commit fraud, prosecute the fraud, that's the solution

not to demonize and punish all the people who don't,,,

Wow, what a straw-man argument the above-post is.

really?

who said these things dodo?



You have a very poor neighborhood. You have kids who are required under law to go to school. They have no money. They have no habit of work. What if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit at the clerical office and greet people when they came in? What if you paid them to work as the assistant librarian? And I'd pay them as early as is reasonable and practical.,,,

NO HABIT OF WORK? like those non impoverished kids obviously do huh?



They're just pushing harder and harder to get more and more of you dependent upon them so they can get your vote. That's what the bottom line is. I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.


and how do they eat and live UNTIL Those opportunities are found?




I went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare.

At first the lady said, "Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare".

So I explained to her that my Dog is black, unemployed, lazy, can't speak
English and has no frigging clue who his Daddy is.

So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify...

My Dog gets his first check Friday.

Is this is a great country or what?


THIS PERSON RESIGNED INSISTING HE ISNT RACIST< ITS JUST MEANT AS A JOKE



“What we are dealing with today is the greatest power grab by the federal government since the War of Northern Aggression."
-- Missouri Republican state Rep.


PWER GRAB, Ttanslation , BIG GOVERNMENT




My grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."

GOT IT? the poor are dumb stray animals,,,,


I could go on and on, but I Feel as if IM in a zoolander audience,, who cant see that the rhetoric is all the same classist and racist undertone


and who will continue insist blacks have some mass insanity going on for not aligning themselves with this party,,,

ITS THE SAME LOOK,, ITS THE EXACT SAME LOOK, I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS,,,lol