watching Beto vs Abbott

[yellowdogintexas]

do not know if there is a thread here,
but the moderators are doing a good job controlling the discussion.

National folks could take a listen

[Beaverhausen]

1. How are you watching it?

[UTUSN]

2. Seems like they scold Beto, give ABBUTT time & slack

[mahina]

3. I would love to listen or watch.

if there is a link it would be appreciated.

Go Beto!

[blogslug]

5. Here you go

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/30/texas-governor-debate-greg-abbott-beto-orourke/

[mahina]

12. Thank you!!

[blogslug]

4. They ain't fooling sround that's for sure

Beto is doing great. Abbott is trying to take potshots but they're not hitting.

[jimfields33]

7. Is Beto impressing the independent voter?

That’s who I really hope he’s getting their vote. We need them for the win!

[blogslug]

9. I think he's proved that he's not the "crazed liberal" Abbott paints him as

His answers and his solutions to problems were reasonable and detailed. As I knew they would be.

[jimfields33]

10. That is good. November should be good for Beto!

[efhmc]

11. You would think so but you do not know the creepy right wingers who live and spawn here.

[Eko]

6. Stream.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/30/texas-governor-debate-greg-abbott-beto-orourke/

[UTUSN]

8. Closing, she thanked ABBUTT (only) for being there. Just sayin'

[Polybius]

13. Is there a site that lists every upcoming debate?

Interested in Senate and Governor debates.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Beto did a great job at this debate

Greg is a former toxic tort defense litigator and I was not impressed

[efhmc]

15. Abbott was crippled in 1984, got tort reform passed but still collecting from insurance.

The latest stats I could find were from 2013 and at that time he had collected $8 mil. Why is this not ever discussed? Guess we have too many other problems to address.

[UTUSN]

16. "tort reform" means he got a CAP put on damages everybody after him could get-$250K vs his millions?

Not to mention the other signs of his rotted heart: Not to mention that he has refused to accept readily available Federal money for kids' Medicaid. Oh, and there's that continual thwarting of voting rights. Oh, and there's that war on women's and other bodies. Oh, and there are those boondoggles of blowing state money for contractors/donors to build/not-build that border wall and on no-nothing militarizing the border.

Whatever anybody's personal calamity is, is not a gold card for sympathy forgetting everything else about the person.

[efhmc]

17. I know this and have been preaching about it for years. Why has it not now and has never been

main stream knowledge or concern? The only thing I can come up with is that no one cares and it is now about other issues,

[UTUSN]

18. Because "others" unlike you and me pooh-pooh stuff, let things slide, or grow calluses.

[DET]

19. Impressions

I only caught about 20 minutes, but I couldn’t help think of the Kennedy/Nixon debate that doomed Nixon. Kennedy calm and collected, Nixon uncomfortable and sweating. Beto was confident and self-assured, Abbott was well practiced but clearly uncomfortable and metaphorically sweating. Plus, of course, he appeared to be lying like crazy. I hope the people who needed to see this debate did so, but I doubt it.

[Sympthsical]

20. I hate that guy