Abbott attended campaign fundraiser hours after Texas shooting

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) confirmed on Wednesday that he stopped at a campaign fundraiser on Tuesday after learning of the shooting that killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers at a school in Uvalde.

“I was actually in Taylor County responding to a different disaster, a disaster of fires that had ripped through Taylor County and destroyed 20 homes, and that is when I learned about the shooting that was taking place pretty much at that time here,” Abbott said at a press conference on Wednesday when asked about the fundraiser in Walker County, some 300 miles from Uvalde.

While still in Taylor County during a press conference about wildfires, Abbott gave an update on the school shooting that had just happened.

“On the way back to Austin, I stopped and let people know that I could not stay, that I needed to go, and I wanted them to know what happened and get back to Austin so that I could continue my collaboration with Texas law enforcement to make sure that all the needs were being met here in the Uvalde area,” he said.

https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3501624-abbott-attended-campaign-fundraiser-hours-after-texas-shooting/

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[2naSalit]

1. Bullshit.

Should not have stopped, he has "peeps" for that sort of thing. Self serving asshole.

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[jimfields33]

3. Didn't somebody have a debate on a day of a mass shooting a few years ago.

Not sure what is appropriate but maybe suspend all politics for a day should be the answer. Of course voters would have had to vote the next day instead of on Tuesday. Voting the next day probably was doable. We’d be getting results now instead of last night.

[CatWoman]

4. what a slimey POS

My brother calls him "Gov. Hot Wheels"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Here is what Beto did instead of attending fund raiser

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