Ok, Folks. Texas has given the people in Florida plenty of time to get this
election finished. Now Texas has decided that we might just take matters
into our own hands: Here is our solution:

#1: Al Gore becomes President of the United States (all 49 states).

#2: George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic of Texas.
Gore shouldn't mind as he said we were "the worst state in the union" during
the campaign. 
 
So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?
-  NASA in Houston, Texas (we will control the space industry).
-  We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States (that is why Houston   has problems with the air quality). 
-  Defense Industry (we have over 65% of it). The term "Don't mess with Texas,"  will take on a whole new meaning. 
- Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the   next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.
-  Natural Gas - Again we have all we need (too bad about those northern states and Calf... ever heard of a cold day in hell... welcome to it! ). Anyways, Al Gore will figure a way to keep Tipper and you warm....
- Computer Industry - we currently lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications.
Small places like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National
Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball
Semiconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Delphi, Nortel, Alcatel, Etc, Etc.
The list goes on and on.
- Health Centers - We have the largest research centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world, and other large health planning centers.
- We have enough colleges to keep us going: UT, Texas A&M, Rice, SMU, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT, Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the south anyway.
- We have a ready supply of workers (just open the border when we need some
more) and our friends across the border will pour in by the thousands.
- We have control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc. 
- In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an army in 24 hours if we need it. If the situation is worse than that, we can always call Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over a couple Texas Rangers.
- We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and vegetable produce and everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good.  Don't need any food. 
 
This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in
good shape. There isn't a damn thing out there that we need and don't have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Gore:   Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Gore will be able to drive around in his 9 mile per gallon SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your
communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes but since Mr. Gore has
predicted global warming, you will not need the gas.

Just a few notes on REAL election results:
U.S. Total Counties won by Bush: 2,434 Counties won by Gore: 677
Population of counties won by Bush: 143 million
Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million
Square miles of country won by Bush: 2,427,000
Square miles of country won by Gore: 580,000
States won by Bush: 29
States won by Gore: 19
And now for the most remarkable finding....
Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush: 0.1
Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2
Researchers found one more interesting fact that might help explain these
disparate murder rates. Gun ownership in the counties won by Mr. Bush is
much higher than in the counties won by Mr. Gore.
Considering the fact that the murder rate in "Gore Country" is 130 times
higher than it is in "Bush Country," it comes as no surprise that the Miami
Herald has found thus far, 445 votes from convicted felons in the Florida
presidential election-almost all of them for Albert. (Undoubtedly, this is
true for felons on death row....) Of note, the report only reviewed 8% of
the state's voting records.
Project that finding on the total Florida vote and one might deduce that
almost 5,000 felons illegally voted for Gore. In Texas they would either be
in jail or in the cemetery-not in our voting booths.
So, if folks in Florida, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., and other
parts, don't like us Texans, that's just great. Succeed us from Your Union.
We didn't ask to be in it in the first place. Frankly, we don't give a
damn...

Signed,
The Voters in Texas