Posted on 03/01/2022 3:44:53 AM PST by RandFan
Greg Abbott is America's second-best governor. When the competition for #1 is Ron DeSantis, that’s nothing to scoff at, but when the rest of the competition is a field of Asa Hutchisons and Kristi Noems, suddenly it's less impressive.
My Republican friends in Austin and Washington DC don’t understand why I’m not content with Abbott.
Not only has he kept up with DeSantis’s opposition of COVID tyranny, they say, but he has made unprecedented progress in the fight against so-called ‘wokeness.’
The list of Abbott’s supposed accomplishments is long, but his two greatest are the signing of a bill banning CRT in public schools, and an order directing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate and treat cases of childhood transitioning as child abuse.
That sounds great.
But the history of Greg Abbott’s DFPS should make any honest conservative question his commitment to the fight against Leftist immorality.
Last year, Abbott signed a bill banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools. The wording of the bill makes it difficult to enforce, and some argue that compromises with Democrats make the bill effectively useless. His supporters might argue that he can’t write the bill, he can only sign it.
So, let’s instead examine an area where the governor has total control, namely the executive branch of the government. If Abbott was dedicated to eradicating Marxist, anti-white CRT, then surely that would be reflected in the staffing of his state agencies.
Last November, with the help of a whistleblower, the Don Huffines campaign revealed that Texas DFPS mandated CRT training as a condition of employment. Employees were required to list the ways that they will work to increase their consciousness of racial oppression...
(Excerpt) Read more at populistunion.com ...
Abbott supported some Texas gun control measures when he thought it was popular and the NRA was weak.
Abbott has flashes of conservatism. During campaign season.
Yes, indeed. Voting for Huffines today. Abbott has been a sellout in far too many areas.
I do not like the Term: Populism
It was originally a creature of the Left.
I will not be voting for Huffines.
The rest of the group are either spoilers to suck votes or very weak candidates.
Abbot shouldn’t have mandated masks and business shutdowns IMO.
He’s another Bush appointee, back in the day. And will never change.
Two terms is enough. Time to go.
Who the heck is Jake Lloyd Colglazier.
NO Sale
I already cast my ballot for Greg Abbott.
Yep, Abbott sold out to the hysteria. For the first time in my life, I had the police called on me and was issued a criminal trespass warning at a grocery store for not wearing a face diaper. That’s Abbott’s doing.
He’s the finger-in-the-wind candidate.
Good tagline dude. Yep, the shots are another chapter in the story. Everytime I hear of someone have a stroke, heart problems, cancer, blood clots,... I wonder if they got the shots.
There are 32 GOP Governors in the United States.
Why is it that we only have one GOP Governor, Ron DeSantis, who consistantly pushes back on the leftist agenda????
Shocking that the police actually had the manpower to respond
How many officers were dispatched ?
Good for you, Tex. Huffines looks and acts like a twerp.
EXACTLY!!
I’m voting for Huffines.
If this is an ad for West, I like West, but ...really?
I didn’t like the line on his campaign ads: this ad paid for by REAL Republicans. Comes across to me as condescending.
Maybe we do deserve better but it sure is not one of those running against him. I voted Abbott for that reason.
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