# Screw Greg Abbott {Texas Governor} **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141 "2021-03-02T21:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/682 "2023-06-27T02:35:26Z")
Greg is convinced he carried that town in the last election. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/683 "2023-06-27T06:54:07Z")
Well, that would at least offset the election shenanigans that enabled Biden to get over 100% of the vote in Edison County, Michigan. [Which doesn’t (and didn’t) exist.](https://meaww.com/where-is-edison-county-sidney-powell-michigan-lawsuit-election-fraud-michigan-does-not-exist-kraken) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/684 "2023-06-27T17:10:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Greg is convinced he carried that town in the last election. Looking at the vote counts in the last several election there were ZERO! votes coming from Hambriston. Where did they all go? Clearly this is is obvious evidence of VOTER FRAUD! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/685 "2023-06-27T22:31:09Z")
> **[First special session ends with no new laws, Texas lawmakers still deadlocked...](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/27/texas-legislature-special-session-ends/)** > > Gov. Greg Abbott quickly called lawmakers back to the Capitol for round two, hoping to break an impasse that has outlasted the regular session and one overtime period. > The first 30-day special session of 2023 ended quietly Tuesday with no laws made and the Texas House and Senate still deadlocked on the best approach to property tax cuts. > > Gov. [Greg Abbott](https://www.texastribune.org/directory/greg-abbott/) quickly called a second special session focused solely on property taxes. > > … > > “Unless and until the House and Senate agree on a different proposal to provide property tax cuts, I will continue to call for lasting property tax cuts through rate reductions and working toward eliminating the school property tax in Texas,” Abbott said in a statement. > > Abbott added that special sessions will “continue to focus on only property tax cuts until property tax cut legislation reaches my desk.” > … Stubborn bastard, ain’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/686 "2023-06-27T23:56:11Z")
> outlasted the regular session and one overtime period Everything in Texas is connected to football. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/687 "2023-06-28T00:28:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > outlasted the regular session and one overtime period > > Everything in Texas is connected to football If only they had sudden death overtime when one overtime doesn’t do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/688 "2023-06-28T03:29:21Z")
Oh, they have sudden death. It’s just the wrong people dying. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/689 "2023-06-28T09:02:11Z")
**“We’re number 1”** 👆🏽(Well, number 51 anyway…) > **[Texas worst state for health care access - San Antonio Express, 6/28/2023](http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/sanantonioexpressnews/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=SAEN%2F2023%2F06%2F28&entity=Ar00904&sk=693846D7&mode=text)** > > San Antonio Express - 6/28/2023 > Texas is the hardest place in the nation to obtain health care and ranks among the most expensive places if you don’t have coverage, according to the latest federal data collated by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group. > > After decades of competing with Mississippi and West Virginia for the worst ranking in health care access and affordability, Texas ranked 51st out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the latest data from 2021, released last week. > > Texas hit rock bottom even before Republican leaders stripped cities and counties of authority to mandate health care benefits. The state has the highest uninsured rate at 24.3 percent, double the national average, and catastrophic compared to top-performer Massachusetts at 3.4 percent. > > The Legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid coverage to the working poor is the culprit. Texas is one of only 10 states that does not provide a health care program for all low-income people. Our lawmakers are determined to maintain their short-circuit of the Affordable Care Act despite dozens of economic studies showing state revenues would rise with Medicaid expansion. > … Another achievement for Texas Republicans to be proud of! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/690 "2023-07-18T15:00:18Z")
Also posted in the Evil MFers thread: [Texas troopers told to push back migrants into Rio Grande River and ordered not to give water amid soaring temperatures, report says](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/us/texas-troopers-migrant-treatment-concerns/index.html) Read the whole CNN story for the horrific details. Also this compassionate response from Abbott: > In response to the reporting, Abbott released a statement to CNN. > > “Texas is deploying every tool and strategy to deter and repel illegal crossings between ports of entry as President Biden’s dangerous open border policies entice migrants from over 150 countries to risk their lives entering the country illegally. The absence of razor wire and other deterrence strategies encourages migrants to make unsafe and illegal crossings between ports of entry, while making the job of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers more dangerous and difficult. President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable, and we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis,” the governor’s statement read. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/691 "2023-07-18T15:14:04Z")
Sooo… if “illegals” drown or die from dehydration/heat stroke it’s all Biden and his “open boarder policy’s” fault. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/692 "2023-07-18T15:17:51Z")
Well, yeh, it can’t possibly be Abbott’s fault, amirite? If those disgusting disease-ridden illegals hadn’t answered evil Biden’s come-hither policies and swarmed our sacred border, they never would’ve drowned anyway, so it’s all Biden’s and their fault. Excuse me; I need a dose of soul bleach after channeling that stuff. Maybe a Lysol infusion. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/693 "2023-07-18T15:32:17Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Sooo… if “illegals” drown or die from dehydration/heat stroke it’s all Biden and his “open boarder policy’s” fault. 🙄 Look what he made us do! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/694 "2023-07-20T00:27:01Z")
I truly do not know how these people sleep at night. How on earth do they think this is ok? And they claim to be Christians and to care about children. And they’re so open about it. I’m so bewildered and disgusted. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/695 "2023-07-20T00:33:02Z")
If you’re born on the wrong side of an arbitrary line, you’re less than human to them. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/696 "2023-07-20T00:41:57Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > How on earth do they think this is ok? And they claim to be Christians and to care about children. - They care about the fetus, not children. Bobert opposes abortion. > **[Video shows US Rep Lauren Boebert throwing pin honoring Uvalde massacre...](https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/07/19/video-shows-us-rep-lauren-boebert-throwing-pin-honoring-uvalde-massacre-victim-in-trash/)** > > U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado is making headlines after throwing away a pin honoring Uvalde school shooting victim Maite Rodriguez. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/697 "2023-07-20T05:45:35Z")
The pin symbolizes gun law reforms, which Boebert won’t support, so of course she threw it away. Honestly, her tossing that pin doesn’t bother me all that much, it’s a symbol. What bothers me is the refusal to make changes to the laws that would help prevent massacres like Uvalde from happening. If she threw away the pin but then started throwing her support behind that legislation, I’d be happy. If the reverse happened and she kept the pin, but still kept voting against gun reforms, then I wouldn’t be happy. In fact, it would just be hypocritical. At least by tossing the pin away, she’s being honest about her beliefs. Of course, she’s a piece of human filth regardless. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/698 "2023-07-21T13:14:47Z")
> **[Texas leaving voter fraud program - San Antonio Express, 7/21/2023](https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/sanantonioexpressnews/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=SAEN%2F2023%2F07%2F21&entity=Ar00300&sk=B8711EFF&mode=text)** > > San Antonio Express - 7/21/2023 > Texas is officially withdrawing from a multistate partnership that helps prevent voter fraud and encourages unregistered citizens to sign up to vote, officials said Thursday. > > State lawmakers approved a bill earlier this year allowing Texas to leave the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonpartisan program that helps local governments identify voters who moved, died or had duplicate registrations. Texas is the latest and largest GOP-led state to exit the initiative, heeding the calls of conservative activists and politicians who question its efficacy and cost. > > … > > ERIC launched in 2012 and had more than 30 member states at its peak. It was once a picture of bipartisanship, as lawmakers across the aisle pledged to clean their voter rolls and increase voter participation. > > In recent years, however, ERIC has become the target of right-wing conspiracy theorists who say it pursues a left-wing agenda and shares personal data with unauthorized parties. Former President Donald Trump posted online earlier this year that all red states should exit the cooperative, calling it a “terrible Voter Registration System that ‘pumps the rolls’ for Democrats and does nothing to clean them up.” > > Eight Republican-led states, including Florida and Virginia, have exited the cooperative this year. > > … > > When Texas became the 30th state to join ERIC in March 2020, state officials and voting rights advocates lauded it as a bipartisan cooperative that would help ensure the accuracy of Texas’ voter rolls. Accuracy?? We don’t need accuracy – we need Republican votes! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/699 "2023-07-21T21:35:24Z")
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/700 "2023-07-22T03:33:47Z")
[No, Abbott, it is not your purview to “defend the national border”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/doj-warns-texas-against-using-201300470.html), so says the DOJ: > The Justice Department on Friday warned Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott that his administration’s use of ballards – or buoys – in the Rio Grande to stop migrants could bring legal action. > > “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties,” the letter obtained by ABC News says. Let’s address this lovely comment from that jerk: > Texas has the sovereign authority to defend our border, under the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution. Nope. Your state does not really have borders. You have a state line. And you cannot prevent people from crossing that state line. The border with Mexico is the national border and it is the responsibility of the federal government to enforce laws relating to it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/701 "2023-07-22T13:35:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [DOJ:] **could** bring legal action. My bold. Why the soft language? It should be **“WILL”** bring legal action. Or better: **"WILL bring legal action if you don’t cut this out you cruel, amoral asshole!**" > [@Monty](#): > > > [DOJ:] “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties,” the letter obtained by ABC News says. Blahblahblah. 🗣 Does anyone think for a minute that Greg will give a rat’s ass about this? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141.md?page=36)