Traveler bumped from flight after accosting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for opposing gay marriage

[ashling]

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150715-traveler-bumped-from-flight-after-accosting-texas-gov.-greg-abbott-for-opposing-gay-marriage.ece

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“I hope you [expletive] go to hell because of your stance on gay marriage,” the man told the governor, using an epithet for emphasis, according to Abbott communications director Matt Hirsch, who was with the governor.

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Arriving at the scene, the Port Authority police put the man’s name through the Joint Terrorism Task Force database and their own database and it came back clean. The Port Authority officers judged that “no direct threats were made,” the man was not arrested or cited for anything, and Jet Blue security took it from there

“Other passengers seemed unnerved a little bit by it,” said Hirsch, who said he could not recall Abbott experiencing a similar encounter. Abbott’s wife, Cecilia, and daughter, Audrey, 18, who is about to start college at the University of Southern California, were with the governor in New York, where he promoted Texas as a business destination, made numerous media appearances and rang the bell Tuesday for the opening of the New York Stock Exchange.

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The governor respects and is always willing to listen to the viewpoints of others(as long as they are teabaggers or scientologists)

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at least he got to ring a bell

[Travis_0004]

1. I'll give him props for flying commercial, and saving taxpayers money over a private plane.

[dballance]

2. That's about the only good thing one can say about Abbott. /nt

[Paladin]

3. I won't. (nt)

[ashling]

4. ... and then there's this

[font size = 3]Abbott Won't Detail Who's Paying for Job Hunting Trips[/font size = 3]

To friendly interviewers and curious executives, Gov. Greg Abbott made a familiar mantra clear Monday and Tuesday in New York: Texas is wide open for business.

What's less clear is how exactly Abbott is paying for the jaunt, the first in a series as he seeks to follow in the footsteps of his jobs-poaching predecessor. When Abbott's office announced his trip to New York earlier this month, it said only that TexasOne, a quasi-governmental agency, would "sponsor" the trip.

Requests for further information on how the trip is being paid for, and who accompanied Abbott, have been met with silence from the governor's office, which has prided itself on transparency.

"It just looks to us like the same old kind of politics with just a new person at the helm," said John Courage, state chairman of the nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause.

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/14/unclear-how-abbotts-paying-jobs-hunting-trips/