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The Texas AG has apparently weighed in
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RPBrown wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 12:12 pm Although I agree with everything that has been said here, and I applaud her efforts, she knew what was going to happen to her. If she was truly opening to feed her kids, she will have a hard time doing so in jail. Seems she would have been a lot better off just doing what he asked and waiting 4 more days to reopen. As for her employees, they could file unemployment. Or, why didn't she file for the PPP loan to pay her employees through this? Then, after she reopens, put up a campaign to elect someone else in place of the judge. The way she tore up the order so defiantly, seems she was just looking for her 15 minutes of fame
In this economy I will do what I have to do to feed my kids and actually am. Daughter and SIL both laid off so we bought them groceries to last a couple of weeks.

Her gofundme page has reached $250K toward the current goal of $500K which may be raised due to the projected court costs as this moves forward. Since the funds are under her sole power, I'm assuming that she can use them help feed her kids. At least I hope so.

She had no chance of feeding her kids without the defiance. Yes, she might have handled it better but when you are playing with someone like Judge Jenkins, I submit that brinkmanship has to be part of the equation. If she had taken a "harvey milktoast" approach, I doubt that she would have gotten the public support that she now has. One of the groups that I belong to was on Commerce street this morning, protesting for her. She drew a group of armed supporters. BTW, they were the same ones, according to a local flower shop owner in Odesssa, who went to the opening of a gym in Odessa and then moved to the bar where they were arrested and made the news themselves in that situation.

I believe that the chances of replacing Judge Jenkins in Dallas County are extremely remote. Just as the chances were of replacing Judge Whitlley in Tarrant County were before he finally decided to retire. I was personally at loggerheads with Judge Whitley back in the early 2000s and ended up selling my home there in part because he was tyrannical then. I believe that Clay Jenkins is worse.

At some point, we have to be willing to stand behind those who stand up for their individual rights. I sent her money. I would have loved to have been able to make the protest for her today. I have friends who went to her salon. It isn't much and maybe it isn't enough. But it is something.