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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery Democrat should be doing what Beto O'Rourke did today.
Get in the face of stonewalling, do-nothing Republicans and challenge their lies, conspiracy theories, stonewalling, inaction and their idiotic insanity.
These people should not be able to walk down the sidewalk without having to face their incompetence and idiocy. Get it on camera and let it roll.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)I love the way that Beto took it to Greg and the GOP. Beto was a little passive against Carnival Cruz until the end of that campaign in 2018. I love the way that Beto stood up to Greg and the gun nuts.
Link to tweet
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/legislature/article/O-Rourke-s-standoff-with-Gov-Abbott-over-Uvalde-17199329.php?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral
The rawness of a new era of Texas politics was on full display on Wednesday in Uvalde as Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto ORourke were
It got even more heated as Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, standing onstage behind Abbott, shouted at ORourke, Sir, youre out of line, later calling him a sick son of a (expletive).
It was yet another public display of the hostility that has been brewing in Texas politics for the past six years, as Democrats make gains in the Texas Legislature and battles for statewide office, while the Republicans in power push further and more aggressively right on guns, abortion and gay rights.
Just in the last two years, Republicans in the Legislature have changed rules in the Texas Senate to squelch out already outnumbered Democratic resistance and wielded redistricting as a partisan tool to end careers of Democratic lawmakers......
Thats not the case this time. ORourke hammered Abbott earlier this year for the failures of the power grid during the 2021 winter storms that killed more than 700 people and left millions without electricity. ORourke went so far as to accuse Abbott of essentially accepting bribes from oil and gas company executives to assure he wouldnt regulate them.
Now one of Abbotts biggest donors is suing ORourke for libel and defamation. Kelcy Warren, chairman of the board at the gas pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners, filed suit against ORourke in San Saba County seeking more than $1 million in damages in a case filed in March.
I need to check on the Kelcy Warren lawsuit. The case was filed in a county other than where Kelcy Warren is registered to vote and was a very weak case attacking Beto for having opinions that are different from what Wareen and Greg want the facts to be.
This is going to be a nasty and fun race.
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)Democrats in other states don't face that quandry. Such actions might hurt more than it helps. Beto saw Abbott's responsibility for the law changes that created the opportunity for the shooter. This is like in Chicago in the 1970s when Jane Byrne found herself mayor because the previous mayor failed to clear the streets in a blizzard. Poor job performance can get a politician booted from office.