Texas Secessionists Now Have Their Candidate And He’s A Former Legislator

Texas Nationalists are feeling their oats. After collecting tens of thousands of signatures, and getting their secession question in front of the GOP’s state executive committee, they now have a candidate and former legislator who supports their cause.

On the question of secession, state representative candidate Jim Landtroop said, “I will fall on the sword for Texas’ right to govern themselves,” and with a smirk he added, “I am open to any measure or means necessary in order to do that.”

The incumbant Representative John Frullo brushed aside the idea of secession as merely fantasy. “Secession is one of those things that we all like to talk about, we dream about we feel that we can do better individually as Texans and as well as a state if we didn’t have Washington D.C. out there helping us,” he said, “So that’s the exciting part, if you look into the reality, it becomes a lot more complex.

Actually, it is as simple as “can’t happen, won’t happen,” and it has been that way for about 150 years.

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