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AUSTIN – Absent from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda items for his Special Session are additional updates to the state’s electric grid.
Abbott directed the state's Public Utility Commission on Tuesday to make improvements to the power grid, about a month after stating “everything that needed to be done was done to fix the power grid in Texas” during the regular session.
There was also no mention of the COVID-19 pandemic or vaccines, nor was there an item on his call relating to expansion of health care access for Texans. A long-held conservative priority that Abbott campaigned on but failed to pass during regular session – banning taxpayer-funded lobbying – did not make his list.
In response to Abbott’s special session agenda, Texas House Democratic Caucus chair State Rep. Chris Turner, D-Grand Prairie, issued a statement chastising the governor’s list.
“The governor’s agenda for the special session shows he is more concerned with pandering to die-hard Trump supporters and right-wing extremists than he is with serving everyday Texans,” Turner stated. “Abbott’s agenda proves one thing: he is clearly panicked about his upcoming primary election.”
“We have real crises in this state — hundreds of Texans died because the governor couldn’t keep the heat on last February, millions of Texans are still unable to access basic medical care and our COVID-19 vaccination rates have plateaued,” Turner continued. “That’s what a real leader would focus on.”
“Instead, Abbott wants to pick on children, tell teachers they can’t talk about slavery, prevent women from accessing reproductive health care and infringe on Texans’ freedom to vote,” Turner added. “Once again, it will be up to Democrats to fight for real solutions for all Texans, while Republicans play political games.”
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Republican Abbott is panicking. Three other Republicans taking him on in party primary. Insulting as all hell.
It's not just about the Voter ID, as most assholish Republicans carp on this topic. They want to make it harder for non-Whites to vote. They want to rule and keep the power, as if put of fear that non-Whites in power will eventually enslave them!
ha ha ha
The entire article is a LIE, something Democrats are experts at...
Texas GOP House Speaker Strips Democrat Of Title After He Left To Fight Anti-Voter Bill
Over 50 Texas Democrats left the state earlier this week in an effort to block voter suppression legislation.
- Democrats need to be as vindictive, revengeful and cold-ass shitty as Republicans. Across the country!
(Are your local Republicans saying anything about this? Naaaaaaah, they're all RINOS!)
Abbott is an embarrassment to any civilized society.
He defies our constitution and claims to be defending it.
Democrats are the party of the rich and elite. Look at our representatives who were schooled at the Catholic reformatory on Ringgold street.
All history is gossip.
American history is steeped toward White history.
fact.
Most books on history in this country have been - and are - written by White men. All stay loyal to their ethnic angle. The list is long, but one of the guilty ones is acclaimed historian David McCullough, a prolific writer whose books generally stick to Whites and their "struggle" in the formation of this country.
His book on the Panama Canal all but ignores the fact that it was Blacks from the Caribbean who served up the needed hard labor. McCullough trains-in on the White engineers and white supervisors. That's okay, but that's not "HISTORY".
“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
― Susan Sontag, writer
All Mexicans believing they are in the racist Republican Party are fooling themselves. Know one?
Republican Abbott is lost...and will lose his own party's primary. His priorities serve him and GOP and no one else.
What did Graham Sevier say?
ja ja ja
Horseshit! If he were pandering to Trump supporters, taxpayer funded lobbiest would be on the list.
THERE IS NOTHING IN THAT BILL THAT WOULD RESTRICT ANY PERSON IN THIS STATE FROM VOTING REGARDLESS OF COLOR OR RACE.... DEMS JUST WANT TO PLAY THE CRT CARD ON EVERYTHING BECAUSE THEY JUST WANT TO STAY IN OFFICE...NOT ALL DEMS BELEIVE IN WHAT OURS REPS ARE DOING AND IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF ALL DEMS!!! THEY SEEM TO REPRESNT THEMSELVES AND NOT OUR INTEREST!!!! AS A LONG TIME CONVERSATIVE DEMOCRAT...I AM SO FRUSTRATED IN THE DIRECTION OF OUR PARTY HAS GONE SON FAR LEFT AND HAS NOW SOLD THIS NATION TO CRT AND WOKE THAT WOULD MAKE OUR FOREFATHER DEMOCRATS ROLL IN THEIR GRAVES!!!!!! THIS IS SO UNACCEPTABLE...WHAT HAPPEN TO THE PRIDE OF BEING AN AMRTICAN WITH PRIDE OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND NOT A SOCIALISM COUNTRY WITH ALL GOVERNMENT CONTROL!!!! I WANT TO BE FREE IN WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE NOT GOVERNMENT TELLING ME WHAT'S GOOD FOR ME...FREEDOM!!! THATS WHAT THIS COUNTRY FOUGHT FOR....AND ALL OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIFE FOR FREEDOM!!!! WASHINTON DC IS SO FAR LEFT THAT THERE IS NO POINT OF RETURN!!! THIS IS ONLY MY PEROSONAL OPTION ABOUT ALL THIS BULLSHIT THAT GONES ON IN OUR PARTY!!!!
The number one issue here is the PHOTO ID, This is not about black, white, purple and browns, it is about allowing ILLEGALS to vote in our elections without legal documents needed to vote. Notice how they are showing more people of color to show racism, but these people should be informed about how Cameron County, in particular is HONORING, salves owners lovers by refurbishing their rat infected house to be honored in BROWNSVILLE TEXAS. This is discrimination against legal United States Citizens, because we, as legal citizens have to show some form of ID PHOTO requisition.
Hey everyone pay attention! Has anyone gone to the elections office and checked how many resident aliens are registered to vote? Resident aliens have a driver license, social security and a voter registration card! Why do you think the Democratic Party hires people to go out to do voter registration every election.? They go to every home and register everyone with a license or an ID and they don’t care that they’re not citizens of the United States! Why haven’t the Feds look into this?
Voter repression? I guess you could call it that, if you favor lax voting laws that allow for illegal and fraudulent voting. Nobody is trying to repress legal voters and legal voting. Just more Democratic horse shit propaganda. Is there anybody that actually believes this nonsense?
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