Texas Republicans move forward with plans for an indoor convention in Houston, the state's biggest c

[RandySF]

As the coronavirus pandemic engulfs Texas’ metropolitan areas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has left the door open for massive indoor gatherings. And organizers are moving forward with some big ones, including the Texas Republican party’s upcoming convention in Houston.

Harris County, where Houston is located, has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the state, but the Texas GOP plans to press forward with plans to hold an in-person convention from July 16-18 in the city’s George R. Brown Convention Center.

"All systems are go, folks. This is happening," Kyle Whatley, the party’s executive director, said Tuesday during a tele-town hall, noting the convention program is already being printed.
On Tuesday, Abbott granted local officials the power to restrict outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people, but made no mention of indoor gatherings. The Texas GOP convention is expected to draw about 6,000 attendees, roughly half of what it would expect for such a convention in normal times, according to Whatley. The party’s website brands its annual convention as the “largest political gathering in the free world.”





https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/27/texas-republican-party-convention-coronavirus-houston/

[winstars]

1. Great news. I hope all the Republicans show up and NO MASKS!!!!!

[unc70]

2. Restrictions outdoors but not indoors!

Is that just so the TX GOP can have their convention?

[Mersky]

3. No.

They can have it in Abilene.

[TexasTowelie]

7. College Station.

Get the youth vote and pay homage to Bush Sr.

[Mersky]

8. That's a good one.

A geographical midpoint for conservative jerkfaces from around the state. Youth vote? Are many of the students even there in the summer? Especially this summer?

Just not Houston - that’s malicious planning at this point.

[TexasTowelie]

9. I'm in Bryan so I still see college students,

but more importantly: Hook'em Horns!

[Mersky]

10. Hey, no diss to you

I’ve met quite a few nice folks from Bryan/College Station, so I’m not surprised, TexTowelie

And yeah, is a Hook’em and Go Coogs! house I’ve got here in Austin.

[TexasTowelie]

11. No offense taken. I haven't met a lot of people here in Bryan since I've been here less than a year

and have limited my social interactions since March. I'll say that when I met my new doctor a couple months ago he seemed like a good guy. Unfortunately, he was completing his residency and moved back to Nebraska.

I was a Longhorn when I was in high school, but since I went to Southwestern the chant I use most frequently is "Pillage Pirates, Pillage!"

[Mersky]

13. Oh, that's right

You went to Southwestern. I don’t think I’ve ever known their mascot. I mean, my grandparents had a house walking distance from the campus, but somehow I missed that.

The Southwestern Pirates - ha, that’s fiercely cute.

My favorite Linda graduated from there, too. So witty.

[TexasTowelie]

14. Southwestern was one of the founding members of the Southwest Conference

and they were nationally ranked back in 1944 and 1945 when the navy pilot training program was there. They climbed up to #4 in the country and won the Sun Bowl both years. They discontinued the football program in 1950 and reinstated it in 2013 with a team composed of 96 first-year students. The team went 0-10 that year, but three years later the team won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference with a 7-3 record.

Unless people were baseball, basketball, volleyball or lacrosse fans, then it doesn't come as a surprise that they aren't familiar with our mascot, Captain Ruter.

Odd trivia: Southwestern won the Division II National Collegiate Championship for handball in 2007.

[Leghorn21]

4. GOOD

Get to it, y’all

And while you’re there, FEMA will just wheel in some hospital beds for you to recover on and then we’ll lock the fkn door

HOW BOU DAT??!?!?

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. They will not stop until they have killed us all...it is that simple.

GOP are not just traitors, which is proven now with the Putin Afghan militant story, but they are also purposely infecting us with the virus.

Murder...

[Mersky]

6. Houston must pushback

That isn’t a convention, no it’s an assault on the city that’s already overwhelmed.

Take it someplace steeped in conservative, bible-beating sense of superiority: Abilene.

(I know there’s good, fair-minded people who live there, but I haven’t met any yet.)

[ananda]

12. Please proceed, Reeps.

As Obama would say.

[rdking647]

15. as soon as the convention starts

houston should throw a quarantine around teh building.
lock all the covidiots inside fro 14 days