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Former GOP lawmaker blisters Abbott for ‘pandering to idiots’ over military exercises
DallasNews.com ^ | 04/30/2015 | Christy Hoppe

Posted on 05/01/2015 12:10:15 PM PDT by GIdget2004

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1 posted on 05/01/2015 12:10:15 PM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

Not the other Todd Smith, but the Todd Smith of Euless. Not exactly John Randolph of Roanoke.


2 posted on 05/01/2015 12:16:14 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: GIdget2004

Todd Smith sounds ignorant.


3 posted on 05/01/2015 12:17:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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This may be a novel thought - but what if our government told all of what the training exercises were intended to do, when and where they were taking place, maybe even what units are taking part, etc.. Might allay fears, make us feel as though we were participants in our own government.

You, know like our Founding Fathers intended.


4 posted on 05/01/2015 12:18:26 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: GIdget2004

If it is so stupid, then why is this rube so bent out of shape? No harm will come from assuaging fears.


5 posted on 05/01/2015 12:18:45 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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6 posted on 05/01/2015 12:21:52 PM PDT by KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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To: GIdget2004

Who is Todd?

Never met a Todd that I trusted.


7 posted on 05/01/2015 12:21:59 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: GIdget2004

Sit down and Shut Up Todd!


8 posted on 05/01/2015 12:23:52 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Liberals will tell you their fears by feigning outrage over any issue due to their supposed moral superiority. Funny how many pissed off “conservatives” there are (according to an Austin newspaper) over this according to this article.


9 posted on 05/01/2015 12:24:16 PM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: hadaclueonce

I looked him up. He is an ambulance chaser in Ft Worth.

Highly qualified to have his opinion quoted by the Media.


10 posted on 05/01/2015 12:24:59 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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Todd is an ambulance chaser lawyer who lost his primary and is back to chasing ambulances.


11 posted on 05/01/2015 12:25:01 PM PDT by jimbo123
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I remember some cop or SF guy got shot near Ft. Bragg, NC while doing training some years ago. The police did not know it was an exercise. I can’t remember the exact details, but why would anyone get pissed off at LE cooperating with military ops?


12 posted on 05/01/2015 12:26:22 PM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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Fear and rumors are easily defeated with facts, so let's hear some.
If even a governor can't get a straight answer from the feds, then we have a serious problem.
Countering with name calling does nothing useful at all.

13 posted on 05/01/2015 12:28:29 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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WTH, Todd got thrown out in the primary?

Proof he is an idiot.


14 posted on 05/01/2015 12:29:44 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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Worse than that Todd Smith was a Joe Strauss fluffer and GOPe lickspittle. Basically leftist trash who likes chamber of commerce money.


15 posted on 05/01/2015 12:32:26 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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16 posted on 05/01/2015 12:38:44 PM PDT by Mr. Peabody
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The reason Abbott is doing this, back in the 1990s Clinton also conducted military exercises in towns and no one bothered to tell the local law enforcement they were going to do it.

Townspeople, including law enforcement, didn’t have the slightest clue what a bunch of helicopters with armed people repelling down onto rooftops in the town in the middle of the night were doing.

One town was Kingsville, Texas.

In Texas it’s not a real bright idea to have people dropping out of helicopters onto someone’s private property without getting permission to do it first.

Someone could get shot.


17 posted on 05/01/2015 12:43:58 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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Note the key word.. FORMER


18 posted on 05/01/2015 12:48:16 PM PDT by Bidimus1
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In Texas it’s not a real bright idea to have people dropping out of helicopters onto someone’s private property without getting permission to do it first.

Someone could get shot.

Someone did. In Waco.

19 posted on 05/01/2015 12:51:39 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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Let’s see, suspicious military training in the streets of America under the control of the fraud thug in the WH as he moves to nationalize the country’s law enforcement. You go Gov. Abbot, protect you’re citizens. Trusting anything this federal government does will be at our own expense and possible demise.


20 posted on 05/01/2015 12:51:55 PM PDT by drypowder
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