I saw something similar in the billions of oversized postcards I’ve been getting in my mailbox. Arpaio’s re-election ad boasted about his Tent City and how it really is humane and has saved Arizona over $40 million since its inception*.
All I could think was, “Yeah, that’s right Arpaio, own your lack of respect for human rights.”
*Even if that’s true, $40 million over 15+ years isn’t much even at the county level.
You made your governor our president.
I think it has something to do with the chili; eating it without beans affects the brain chemistry.
Sending murderers to death row = safer neighborhoods?
Nonsense, I find it quite pleasant.
They use a tomato base for their barbecue sauce.
It’s funny how insecure people who aren’t Texans or don’t live in Texas overcompensate for it with such gusto.
I’ve lived in Texas. Texans are the overcompensaters but their BBQ is to die for.
I lived in Oregon for 23 years, and Texas for going on 4.
Give me a Texan ANY DAY of the week, please. They are the nicest people I’ve ever met.
And yes the BBQ is awesome but don’t tell that to the Carolinians.
Hey, I live in Texas and I’m not barbaric in the slightest. I thoroughly cook the neighborhood cats before I eat them.
Oh yes, they’re very nice people. They’re just overly proud of Texas.
Well, in all fairness they had some help from a few other states in his advancement.
I’m with you. Like I said, I spent the first 22 years of my life in Texas. Compared to some of the ads I remember that one is positively dull and could have been from any other of our lovely death penalty states.
I admit Texans can be obnoxious but the vast majority of the folk are quiet pleasant.
At least as long as Jesus, gay people and chili with beans don’t come into the conversation.
Yep, Native Texans are some of the friendliest, most likable folks I’ve ever met. It very well could be from the chili.
I knew Devon Ward Wallace Anderson growing up. Even been to Ireland with she and 20 others on a college history trip. They don’t come much better and she was a fine judge too. I’m sure she married well.
Don’t have much trouble with the ad either. But then we’ll be some of the ones he wants to see benefit.
Even if the characterization of Abbott’s career goals is accurate, this is still a yawn-fest. Small-government guys want a smaller, less-intrusive government. If that’s your (espoused) political philosophy, it makes sense to pick someone well-associated with an agency’s excesses to rein them in. It’s like sending Bolton to the UN.
It was shocking in the thirty years between '24 and '64.
Those must have been Texas-sized years.
I feel the need to point out the fact that your ad is somewhat disturbing.
I’m too dumb to count past 21.
All you Texas haters are right, so please, please, please- don’t move here. It’s horrible. You will hate it. Don’t bother. (Fellow, Texans- do not encourage them. My favorite swimming holes are too crowded already.)
I couldn’t vote for either Anderson or Oliver, so skipped that race altogether.
I agree it’s a yawn-fest, because I doubt Mittens will be picking anybody for his cabinet. So Abbott won’t be able to wreck the EPA. He’ll just remain a Texas problem…