Posted on 09/17/2021 3:52:40 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
The anti-Trump Republican group that spent more than $80 million in 2020 helping to knock the former president out of the White House is now turning its fire on Gov. Greg Abbott.
The Lincoln Project announced on Friday it will air an ad during the Texas Longhorns versus Rice Owls football game to highlight how many people have died in the state, blaming Abbott’s handling of the response to the disease.
“We’re reminding Texans—and all Americans—that there are real and deadly consequences to playing politics with public health,” said Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen. “Gov. Greg Abbott has failed Texas to the tune of 60,000 dead neighbors, friends, and family. Instead of recognizing his failure and working with public health officials to protect Texans, Abbott digs in further; ratcheting up his radical, anti-science, anti-vax approach to the pandemic. Texas cannot afford, or survive, the reign of this extremist governor.”
The ad comes as the death toll for COVID in Texas has been on a sharp incline. Since the beginning of this month, the state has announced 4,025 previously unreported deaths from the virus.
Abbott’s response to the current surge has relied on what he calls personal responsibility and less on the government mandates and mask requirements he used during earlier surges. While that has appealed to many Texas Republicans, it has brought criticism from city and county leaders in places like Houston where hospitals are strained.
“Every Texan has a right to choose for themselves and their children whether they will wear masks, open their businesses or get vaccinated,” Abbott’s spokeswoman, Renae Eze, said in a recent response to questions about his approach.
Abbott has requested hospitals postpone non-emergency surgeries and has opened antibody treatment centers to help relieve hospitals, but still more than 12,000 people are hospitalized with lab-confirmed COVID-19. Some regions including Waco, Corpus Christi and Beaumont have run out of intensive care beds.
In the 1-minute ad, the Lincoln Project has almost no audio, but flashes the number of deaths in Texas on the screen and says the materials used for caskets to bury the dead amount to enough for an 85-mile-long wooden wall.
“If Gov. Abbott wants to build a new wall, tell him to stop building this one,” the ads states.
The ad hits just after President Joe Biden took direct aim at Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on social media over their handling of the virus.
“Republican governors in states like Texas and Florida are doing everything they can to undermine the public health requirements that keep people safe,” Biden said on Twitter. “They're playing politics with the lives of their citizens, especially children. I refuse to give in to it.”
DISGUSTING PEOPLE WHPO POSE AS RINOS!
No contact information for them on their website...
One of the owners has been accused of being a sexual predator...
Another had tax issues...
Another ran juan mccain’s failed campaign...
COVID is the biggest bull shit in American history and the country is sinking because of it.
They are the perfect example of Republicans in Name Only (RHINOs). They and others like them (Romney, Steele, Sasse, Bush, McConnell, Cheney etc) are why the democrats have gained so much power in the country over the last couple of decades since these RHINOs never fought but gave in or actually facilitated the gain of that power while proclaiming to other Republicans that they supported conservative ideals.
Tubby Conway belcheth.
That, I'm sure, was the plan when it was designed and then released.
Ping.
Eff these aholes.
There have been dozens of full football stadiums, no masking thank you very much over the last 3 weeks,,,,in FL, cases are dropping.
NEVER mentioned are the skyrocketing rates in blue gulags filled with Vax sheep like OR or HI.
No doubt Liz is in it
The group who harbored a pedophile?
I thought the Lincoln Project people were exposed as perverts & they went out of business.
Can’t let facts get in the way of Leftist Propaganda.
Let’s get this straight. These are not republicans. These are hateful ugly asshat establishment democrats posing as republicans.
The Assistant Democrats / RINOs / liars from the Lincoln Project.
It really ought to say "Commie Sympathizers."
Oh, Biden wants to “jab” children under the age of 12, alright....but not with a needle!
You mean we have people here who actually support QUEERS, CHILD MOLESTERS, and PERVERTS?
That the type who are members of the LINCOLN PROJECT!
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