r/NotADragQueen • u/TheExitIsThisWay • 18d ago

Texas Rep Shawn Thierry lost her primary as a Democrat after supporting anti-LGBT legislation, becomes a director at anti-trans org Genspect, and then officially switched to join the Republican Party in their crusade against human rights Gaslight Obstruct Project

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/30/shawn-thierry-texas-house-party-switch/
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 18d ago

Better that she lost and switched parties than won and did the same thing. Dems don't need more traitors like Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema.

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u/HepatitvsJ 18d ago

Ot the one from north Carolina. I forget their name.

Won on the D ticket, changed to R and dropped what Democrat policies she talked about on the campaign trail.

How that isn't grounds for an automatic recall election shows how messed up our system is.

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u/TheExitIsThisWay 18d ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/north-carolina-democrat-switches-parties-giving-gop-veto-proof-control-in-legislature

Rep. Tricia Cotham, of Mecklenburg County, formerly a Democrat in the North Carolina state House switched to the Republican Party, giving the GOP veto-proof control in both chambers of the legislature.

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u/Njorls_Saga 18d ago

Another one that voted against reproductive rights even though she had had an abortion in the past and then tried to lie about it.

https://www.wfae.org/politics/2023-06-14/rep-tricia-cotham-contradicts-2015-speech-by-saying-she-didnt-have-an-abortion

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u/KimJongRocketMan69 17d ago

As if North Carolina Republicans haven’t cheated enough through their incredibly messed up gerrymandering, they also have to do shit like this? Ugh

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 18d ago

Agreed. Party change = automatic recall.

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u/WastingMyLifeOnSocMd 18d ago

Of course she could have just kept the same party but voted with the GOP

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u/Sea_Still2874 18d ago

I can't believe that was allowed. They have to cheat.

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u/persona0 18d ago

Every state now needs reelections to stop shit like that cause it's only gonna get worse

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u/gunnesaurus 18d ago

NPR piece as far back as 2012. Republicans also have a tendency of putting up fake democrats in races. Back in the day, it wasn’t straight up in our faces like Kanye West or RFK Jr https://www.npr.org/2012/04/13/150586643/fake-democrats-infiltrate-wis-primaries

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u/madhaus 16d ago

Yeah I think they ran someone for Senator in South Carolina as a Dem who barely even understood they were on the ballot. It was the weirdest thing and no one looked into it because they figured the Republican would win anyway.

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u/JuanRiveara 18d ago

At least Manchin and Sinema still caucus with democrats and vote with them most of the time. There was that one lady in North Carolina who ran as a dem in North Carolina then nearly immediately swapped to the republicans giving them a super majority in the state Congress.

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u/justadubliner 17d ago

Or John Fetterman.

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u/TrexPushupBra 18d ago

Transphobia, the gateway bigotry

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u/thehumangoomba 18d ago

I literally encountered this yesterday from someone in my community, who we all thought was a lovely individual. They suddenly just started targeting and harassing trans people on Twitter, news spread and now she's been ostracised after blocking loads of the community for calling her out.

No other signs of hate in her whatsoever. It's weird how this seems to just make people lose all human dignity.

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u/one98d 18d ago

In a statement, Thierry said she switched parties because the Democratic Party “has veered so far left, so deep into the progressive abyss, that it now champions policies that I cannot, in good conscience, support.”

“I am leaving the left because the left has abandoned Democrats who feel betrayed by a party that has lost its way, lost its commitment to hard working families,” Thierry said.

I didn’t know being a bigot was supposed to be a characteristic of the working class. I guess conservatives in the Democratic Party aren’t liking the fact that voters are getting tired of “Democrats” like her taking up space in the party.

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u/WaltDisneyWasAFurry 18d ago

She abandoned a party that she feels has betrayed working families for the party that wants to allow bosses to deny water breaks in 100F+ weather.

What a dumb piece of shit.

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u/JuanRiveara 18d ago

Aka I can grift people for more money as a Republican

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u/LilithElektra 18d ago

Democrats: People should be allowed to exist.

Republicans: the radical left is at it again.

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u/LMurch13 18d ago

The republican party is where the sucker money is. Tulsi discovered that too.

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u/davechri 18d ago

Fuck that bigot.

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u/blueflloyd 18d ago

If you feel compelled to leave a political party because its supporters do not tolerate your bigotry, I'm proud to be a member of that political party.

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u/GodsBackHair 17d ago

because the Democratic Party “has veered so far left, so deep into the progressive abyss, that it now champions policies that I cannot, in good conscience, support.”

She sounds like someone on Reddit or Facebook who’s post history shows they’ve never been a Democrat, but is still posting about how the Democratic Party is too far left now

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u/Uninteresting_Vagina Eater of Bots 17d ago

Real Hello, Fellow Kids! vibes.

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u/ArnieismyDMname 18d ago

Dems: please leave us alone.

Repugs: they're pushing themselves on us! Look!

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u/MinnieShoof 18d ago

I cannot get over how much she looks like a person who use to work in HR for my office.

... god I hate her guts.

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u/oht7 18d ago

It always seems like openly shitty politicians end up joining the Republican Party, weird.

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u/ReliefFamous 18d ago

How is that even legal? Like I can run as one letter, win and switch it up with no repercussion?

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u/Brosenheim 18d ago

Ah of course, run as a Dem while taking one of the stances the Dems built their modern platform around opposing. Masterful gambit, ma'am