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General Contact for all of The Texas State Senate

  Rick Perry (Governor of Texas who called another 30-day session to try to pass an abortion bill. Also, the session will cost tax payers almost a million dollars):

Email

Mailing Address:

Office of the Governor P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711-2428

Delivery Address: 

Office of the Governor State Insurance Building 1100 San Jacinto Austin, Texas 78701

Senator Wendy Davis: (The badass who filibustered forever)

Email

Mailing Addresses & Phone Numbers:

The Honorable Wendy Davis  P.O. Box 12068  Capitol Station  Austin, Texas 78711  (512) 463-0110  Fax: (512) 475-3745

707 W. Vickery Blvd., Suite 102 Fort Worth, Texas 76104 (817) 332-3338 Fax: (817) 332-1230

P.O. Box 1039 Fort Worth, TX 76101 Tel. 817-886-8863

Senator Judith Zaffirini: (the one who brought out the rule book and actually knew how to run the thing)

Email

Capitol Address & Phone Number:

The Honorable Judith Zaffirini P.O. Box 12068 Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711 (512) 463-0121

District Address & Phone Number:

1407 Washington Street Laredo, Texas 78042 (956) 722-2293 (956) 722-8586 (fax)

Senator Kirk Watson: (Played a pretty big role at the end of the night)

Email or Here

Capitol Office

Physical Address

Capitol Extension Room E1.606 Austin, TX, 78711

Mailing Address

There is absolutely no sense or fairness in a filibuster. Seriously, it's ridiculous. 

Wendy Davis and Leticia Van de Putte are great, and this worked great, but being able to talk for 10 hours 45 minutes didn't make her right. She was right, don't get me wrong, but having the passion to talk for so long doesn't mean we can uproot democracy.

The all-time record for filibuster is held by Strom Thurmond, who spoke for precisely 24 hours 18 minutes against the notion that the vote should be extended to African-Americans. Don't think we'd be celebrating that one if it had happened today, would we?

America, take a good long look at your political system. Listen to your people. Your women want the right to an abortion, and a women shouldn't have to stand and talk for nearly 11 hours just to stop this right from being reduced for the next two years at least.