Posted on 09/25/2020 9:53:42 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Since May, scores of Republican lawmakers and leaders have offered suggestions to fellow Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to fully reopen the state. They have written numerous letters and made many phone calls expressing how extended executive orders requiring some businesses to remain closed are significantly hurting their constituents.
More than 65 Republican legislators sent a letter to Abbott, which still remains unanswered, asking him to simply amend an order to allow some businesses to operate. The majority say they have not received even a response.
Since March, more than 8,900 businesses have permanently closed in Texas according to a recent Yelp analysis, with another 5,300 reporting temporary closures as a direst result of the state’s shutdown orders issued by the governor. The numbers are most likely higher due to several factors, Yelp notes.
Business owners and state leaders argue most of the jobs made possible by these closed businesses are not coming back, contrary to claims Abbott made earlier this year.
More parents are withdrawing their children from public schools because of over-aggressive social distancing policies and prolonged virtual learning schemes, which they argue isn’t teaching.
In late July, state Sens. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, and Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, pointed to TMC COVID-19 data, which at the time showed that Harris County was past the July 5 peak as new hospitalizations had flat-lined....
In July, several county Republican parties voted to censure the governor over his orders.
The initial shutdown was first explained as a way to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus and keep positive test rates below 10 percent, according to remarks the governor repeatedly made at press briefings...
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Another sqish, like Lee is in Tennessee. Worthless. Balless. De Santos needs to bitch slap both of them.
Abbott could’ve been a contender.
But now he’s finished...
Abbot is once bitten twice shy. He doesn’t want the state to experience another spike in cases like we had after the first re-opening.
Yeah, when Georgia’s Gov. Kemp looks tough by comparison, there’s a problem.
The people of Texas anger and disappointment with Abbot have been building for a while now. His weak appeasement to the Shutdown mob has resulted in a slow boil. That is NOT what TEXAS is about.
His fecklessness has just been highlighted by the Florida Governors declaration that Florida is 100% open for business. And, will never ever shutdown ever again. In addition, the Florida Governor issued an Executive Order negating any local (liberal city or county) from attempting to subvert this order.
This is the exact kind of leadership Texans deserve and have not gotten.
He sold his sold for 30 pieces of virus scammer silver.
Another globalist turn coat wanting to sink the people?
Boris Johnson in England is doing the same. McKenzy consultants are promoting the trashing of the UK
So what are the options?
Is he up for re-election?
Be cause a democrat sure is going to be NO improvement.
Texas sure knows how to pick them.
Perry and GW Bush flooded their state with muslims.
Watch them go for George P. Bush, from the frying pan into the fire.
“So what are the options?”
Could he be primaried out?
Well he’s the governor Texas picked so it is kind of what Texas is about right now
He won’t run again if he survives until 2022.
Agree with your comment!
Our TX Gov. should quickly issue orders like was done in FL.
Living in Austin TX is dangerous to one’s mental health. Seems Abbot has been influenced by the idiots there.
Bump
Abbott is a balless wonder. Total disappointment. In a time of crisis, he failed on every single count.
A spike in cases does not equal a spike in deaths.
This is so overrated. We never did this for the flu.
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