Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: No Pardons For Marijuana Convictions

[ProudMNDemocrat]

After President Joe Biden asked governors to consider pardons for low-level marijuana offenses, Abbott said that won't happen in Texas.

Source:Huff Post

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he won’t consider pardons for low-level marijuana offenders after President Joe Biden called on governors across the country to consider pardons.

“Texas is not in the habit of taking criminal justice advice from the leader of the defund police party and someone who has overseen a criminal justice system run amuck with cashless bail and a revolving door for violent criminals,” Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze said in a statement Thursday.

More of article at.....[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-gov-greg-abbott-no-pardons-for-marijuana-convictions_n_6341a106e4b03e8038c9c674|

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The atmosphere in Texas is terrible. I am sure Beto jumped on this.

[PatSeg]

1. What a super jerk

No surprise there.

[TheBlackAdder]

21. Low-level drug crimes is a profit center for a great variety of jobs, esp. those for-profit prisons.

[PatSeg]

43. Yep, Texas really likes its prisons

It is truly a cruel state to live in.

[TheBlackAdder]

45. They talk personal liberties and freedoms and do everything to fine you and forever damage you.

[PatSeg]

49. Yes, that's a good point

"Personal liberties and freedoms" are just for the bumper stickers. The voters are so brainwashed.

[RosevilleSparky]

28. Texas is Purgatory

Simple possession in teXas can get you a long prison sentence. I believe it could be up to life.

[PatSeg]

44. Purgatory is a good definition

for Texas. It certainly is quite unlike any place else.

[MagickMuffin]

2. When all you have is hate in your heart for your fellow man

Don’t expect any more than that!

[BannonsLiver]

3. Just like with student loan forgiveness they all walk right into the traps

[newdayneeded]

4. What the hell is this cashless

bail the right keep taking about?

[jimfields33]

7. This explains it somewhat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna35165

[Jade Fox]

5. Seems like a very dumb move on Abbott's part...nt

[Norbert]

63. Which may be what Biden is expecting.

This will give Texas and Abbott a black eye.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. No compassion or the like. Evil, just plain evil. This is the republican party in TX.

Someone should ask the republican governor of TX if the state of South Dakota can have legalized pot, for both medical and recreational reasons, then why in the hell not pardon these people convicted of low-level pot offenses? South Dakota is a republican state too.

He's grandstanding literally on the bodies of his victims in TX.

Disgusting.

[jaxexpat]

47. It's like this.....

You got this pile of stuff.... let's call it "meanness", and you got this other pile of stuff.... let's call it "stupid". These piles are essential for the current "conservative" Republican party machine to exist.

These precious substances are the "special sauce" which keeps their base coming to the polls (kinda like moths to a porch light), every time the polls are open. Sometimes, they even make up their own polls and create their own elections with their very own results, too. Very creative and a bit hyperactive as well, this "base".

When the "mean" base gets antsy, they're fed from the "stupid" pile. That keeps them busy for a while, chewing and mulling. Conversely, when the "stupid" base gets antsy, they're fed from the "mean" pile. They too are thus occupied and don't make trouble for the machine. So long as these aspects are well fed, the machine and "conservatism" are golden.

Meanwhile everyone else is scratching their head trying to figure if what they're seeing is simply stupid cruelty or horribly cruel stupidity. Non-"conservatives" preoccupied with the quandary which this phenomenon presents are sort of like a cat playing with a mouse except cats won't tolerate half-dead mice taking over their government.

[flying_wahini]

8. If Biden had asked Abbott to lock them all up then Abbott would have done the opposite.

Abbott will do anything but the right thing Every Damn Time.

[sanatanadharma]

9. Pardons express the value of compassion

Conservatives do not value compassion.

[flying_wahini]

10. If Biden had asked Abbott to lock them all up then Abbott would have done the opposite.

Abbott will do anything but the right thing Every Damn Time.

[CrispyQ]

11. $40K per inmate.

I read that's what the for-profit private prison system charged to house/detain an inmate for a year & that was several years ago.

Also, republicans, & the zealots in particular, are very punitive. They love locking up those they disagree with or dislike.

[RKP5637]

12. He's a consistent asshole supreme! I can't believe people want an asshole like this for governor. n/t

[dalton99a]

13. The useful idiot Renae Eze:

[tanyev]

14. How you doin' on eliminating all the rapists in Texas, guv?

You calling that Mission Accomplished already?

[SoCalDavidS]

15. Just Another Shithole Governor Of A Shithole State nt

[ashredux]

25. Well, there are quite a few of us here in Texas they're trying to turn it blue.

It wasn’t a shit hole state back years ago. Abbott and his criminal friends, have turned it into one

[SoCalDavidS]

54. I'm Not Knocking Your Efforts To Turn It Blue

But the reality is, since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, the Democrat has carried TX exactly Once, Jimmy Carter in 1976. There has been a Democrat as Governor for 8 of the last 42 years.

I wish you well in the uphill battle. I'd LOVE to see states like TX & FL turn blue, but I just don't see it happening anytime soon.

[ashredux]

57. 😊hold my beer

[onecaliberal]

16. Republicans are constitutionally incapable of any positive or redemptive action.

They are fear and loathing. They are tools of “satan” nothing more or less.

[Hotler]

17. I wonder how many pardons or 'look the other way' he's giving out to his friends with DUI's. nt

[Emile]

18. Republican voters are dumb enough to believe his bullshit.

[Paladin]

19. I would expect no better from the evil little piece of shit. (nt)

[budkin]

20. Because he directly profits from prisons

We've got to get rid of this POS.

[ashredux]

24. Abbott would actually make more money if he cornered the new licenses for marijuana sale

[Samrob]

22. Maybe we just turned TX blue??? nt

[Emile]

26. I never understood the power of the magic R, but it

attracts masochist voters who enjoy pain and sadist voters who get off inflicting pain on someone else.

[ashredux]

23. And Beto will just say..."Hold my beer.."

[TeamProg]

27. My electrician's daughter and SIL moved to TX about a year ago for more housing opportunities. They

are already back in California.

And the SIL is a very skilled electrician & welder.

[dlk]

29. Nevermind no one is calling to defund the police...

Abbott has a sadistic streak, whether it's locking up low-level marijuana offenders, sending bounty hunters after pregnant women and those who help them, or enormous rent increases for seniors in low income, tax credit housing. The cruelty is the point for Abbott.

[paleotn]

30. Tejas has been "frying" people for years....

and yet has a murder rate far higher than most of blue America. So much for criminal justice in the lone jackass state.

[Traildogbob]

31. Redemptions

Only apply to the Hershel’s, Bannon’s and Flynn’s of the world. GQP ones. That stacked pile of shit in a wheel chair has aspersions of a presidential “Appointment”. Never thought I could have this much distain for some one in a Wheel chair. How The party of Jesus can stoke this much hate. Just wow! Come on deep state, Soros and Jewish space laser operators. Focus a little of that weather controlling hate to Texas. With that GOD level power y’all have, you could target just the A-Butt, Cruz and Paxton cult.

[no_hypocrisy]

32. To quote Jeff Spicoli . . .

https://m.

[Trueblue Texan]

33. More reason to VOTE HIM OUT!!!

This is an issue where Texas is quite progressive.

[Zambero]

34. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos

"It's all been ground down to molasses", circa early 1900's. A song that served as a euphemism for notorious Texas prison farms where inmates were literally being worked to death. Many prisoners received excessive sentences for minor offenses, or for "crimes" such as vagrancy. Fast forward to 2022. Has much changed in Texas under the current governor?

[Gore1FL]

35. It's like clockwork.

They will get on the wrong side of an issue just to stop a Biden win.

That the GOP is becoming anti-weed is hilariously short-sighted.

[DownriverDem]

37. What's wrong

with their voters?

[Mariana]

66. Religion, mostly.

[DownriverDem]

36. Just like with Florida

I would never live in Texas. I would cringe when folks would say they were moving to Florida.

[Joinfortmill]

38. Well, it's your choice, Texas. Who ya gonna vote for?

[SoCalDavidS]

55. Well, According To Polls....

It's not even close.

[Ferrets are Cool]

39. Texas, the Private Prison state

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jun/11/texas-private-prison-map/

Q: Which state is host to the most big name for-profit prisons?
A: Texas. Of course, it’s Texas.

The state that emblazoned it’s “Everything’s Bigger In…” theme on the collective consciousness has been at work putting its official motto (“Friendship”) to use when it comes to the big three private prisons operators — Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group, and Management and Training Corporation.

Texas is currently home to thirty-five of their facilities, doubling the number in the next closest contender, California. The happy trio provides services to customers local, state, and federal. In particular, the U.S. government has made use of GEO and CCA immigrant detention centers in the southern tip, near the Mexican border, and along the strip of Interstate 35 from Laredo to Austin. The State of Texas itself has primarily turned to MTC for housing prisoners from the Department of Criminal Justice.

[SheltieLover]

40. What a gift to Beto!

All he has to do is calculate how much $$$ taxpayers will save when he pardons all those sitting in prison for smoking a joint & people should line up to vote for him!

[Wibly]

41. Talking to his base

Abbott and Co. are busy talking to their base, and only to their base.
Meanwhile, their base is shrinking.
This will not go down well with the young or with senior, and the Willie Nelson set will pin him to the wall for it.
Pretty soon Abbott will be talking to his hand, and no one else.

[Warpy]

42. What an asshole!

I hope that puts O'Rourke over the top.

Even typical Texas jerks deserve better than Abbott.

[3auld6phart]

48. Richard Widmark

Comes to mind when I see this asshole in his mobile chair. I know this is not right to think like that. But this prick cares for no body but himself. Movie “ Kiss Of Death” R. Ws evil laugh damn
that was spooky.

[Grins]

46. "Texas is not in the habit of taking criminal justice advice..."

“Nope! Not us. We’d prefer the taxpayer foot the $60,000 per prisoner per year over a victimless crime. Cuz’ that’s the Texas way!”

[COL Mustard]

50. I bet Kay Ivey in Alabama is down with this too

I can almost hear her: “We don’t need no point-headed Washington politician telling us what to do down here in Alabama! And by the way Joe, where’s my hurricane relief money?”

[spanone]

51. Bill Lee, Tennessee governor said the same.

Lee ran a plumbing company.

Bought his way into politics.

[ancianita]

52. Texas & its Republican leaders are corporate owned. TX Big Corps force feeds for-profit FUD

bullshit about 'criminal' humans
-- 180 days in jail for 2+ ozs of weed possession
-- over 1,700 deaths from fentanyl last year
-- over 22,000 imprisoned for weed -- NO deaths last year.

Big Corps & bag man Abbott try to convince women and other imiserated Texans of how free they are from so-called 'soft on crime' Democrats.

If/When O'Rourke wins and their mental chains removed, Republicans there won't know what to do or how to think while the corporate scream machine revs up anti-Beto messaging on local TX radio & tv networks. Then the gun dudes start skirmishes in order to destabilize the state, threaten and blame the Democratic governor.

[hadEnuf]

53. All Republicans know how to do is lie, lie, lie.

Biden isn't interested in the rantings of a MAGAT who supports a criminal trator ex-POTUS either, but maybe the citizens of Texas will fix that come November.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

56. Texas has no compassion and it never did

let's hope Beto can bring some too it!!!!


low level marijuana USE, happens in Texas every hour of every day even in TEXAS. Abbott is so out of touch and cruel

[lame54]

58. Don't kid yourself Greg. Texans love their weed - FREEDOM!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

59. Who is surprised by this?

[Mad_Machine76]

60. How does anybody manage to live in Texas and stay sane

I mean, unless you're a CishetwhitefundamentalistXtian? Certainly not everybody who lives in Texas is a right-wing nutjob?

[Tree Lady]

62. My daughter is very happy there

San Antonio is a pretty liberal city and the people are friendly when I visit. She lives in a area with nice houses and neighbors and good schools. She works at home now but did fine when she worked out. She supports Beto.

Today they drove to Austin to go to a full day concert of lots of bands. She took her high school son with her.

I think you stay sane by living your life and hanging with good people. Near the river walk area there is a free yoga outdoors on the weekends her and hubby do that.

[Mad_Machine76]

64. I'm sure that with all states

there are the more liberal pockets, but if the state government sucks, it still sucks for everybody. I'm sure that some people like the climate or atmosphere there, but the politics would just kill me. I don't have it a ton better here in Indiana though.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

61. A big spliff might do you good Abbott

[Mr. Ected]

65. What a degenerate man in a degenerate party in a country that largely favors degenerates

Never considering the best interests of the people, never humane, never compassionate or even reasonable.

Just a group of cowards forcing their will on the stupid idiots that elected them, choosing political brinksmanship over governance.

I'm done. I can't take this shit anymore. God forbid we lose the House or the Senate next month.

The next step is into the abyss.

[Volaris]

67. 2 things:

A1-abbot is an idiot (this be the easiest thing he could do to take votes away from beto)

2-huffpost spelled 'Amok' wrong. In OCTOBER they did this.

I'm just sayin.....