Miriam A. Ferguson

And you're like, okay, well, if, if there's going to be a woman governor of Texas, um, and she actually wasn't the first one.

The first one was back in the '20s, uh, Miriam Ferguson.

But, you know, it's kind of like if they're gonna have a Democrat, they're gonna have someone who, you know, she's gonna be really Texan.

Um, this, you know, she, this, uh, you know- Talarico just, you know, he doesn't seem really what I think of as a Texan, but what do I know? It's a big state.

There are a lot of unique perspectives that a woman will bring, particularly on these kitchen table issues, she said.

To date, 23 other states have elected women as their chief executive, starting in 1924 with Nellie Taylor Ross in Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson in Texas.

On November 3rd, Tennessee will almost certainly make history by doing the same.

But who will it be? In August, Republicans chose U.S.

He wouldn't, it's literally, there's a quote in the poem, the story of Bonnie and Clyde, where because the cops won't stop harassing him, his line is, okay, well, I will see them in hell.

What else do people do when they are backed into a corner? So this breakout happens, and we get Governor Ma Ferguson, who's a real person.

She's played by Kathy Bates here, and she's a really interesting person because she hated the Texas Rangers because she saw them as... their own version of outlaws of, of these outside of the law rebels who thought that they were law officers, but were violent.

And she hated that.

Well, don't let facts get in the way of a good political statement.

You heard what Ma Ferguson used to say about like when she was asked about – do you know the story? So Paul Ferguson was a traveling banjo guy and he got elected because that's what we do in Texas is elected.

And so he gets elected in the 1800s, and he gets run out of office for doing something illegal that I can't remember.

And his wife took his job, and her name was Ma Ferguson.

And Ma Ferguson, our first woman governor – I think her second was Anne.

Okay,

okay.

Ma Ferguson was asked whether we should teach Spanish in our public schools, and she said – If English is good enough for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for the children of Texas.