TX-GOV: Democratic strategists launch PAC to defeat Abbott in 2022

[RandySF]

Hoping to harness the opposition to Gov. Greg Abbott's handling of the coronavirus, several Texas Democratic strategists are launching a new political group to defeat him in 2022.

Their group, the Beat Abbott PAC, will raise money that will ultimately go to the Democratic nominee against Abbott in 2022, when he is up for a third term. Along the way, the political action committee aims to build a small-dollar donor list that can help Democrats in the next election cycle and "hold Abbott accountable for his failure on COVID," according to an announcement first shared with The Texas Tribune.

The PAC's board includes Tory Gavito, president and co-founder of Way to Win; Ginny Goldman, founder and former executive director of the Texas Organizing Project; Zack Malitz, co-founder of Real Justice PAC and statewide field director for Beto O'Rourke's 2018 U.S. Senate campaign; and Derrick Osobase, a veteran labor and political operative.

“We’re done listening to a Governor willing to let people die in order to maintain his good graces with the likes of Donald Trump and the right-wing of the Republican party,” Malitz, the PAC's treasurer, said in a statement. “People in this state deserve better than a corrupt talking head who looks out only for himself and the one-percent. It’s time to beat him.”

Democrats have criticized Abbott from the start of the pandemic — and the criticism has only intensified in recent weeks as the coronavirus situation has deteriorated in Texas. Many hospitals have become overcrowded with COVID-19 patients in recent weeks as the number of new people testing positive for the virus continues to climb, reaching 10,791 on Wednesday.



https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/16/texas-coronavirus-greg-abbott-pac/

[Budi]

1. THIS is a most exciting time for Texas's future.

We are all sick of Republican placeholders & Abbot is useless as a leader of this State.

[onetexan]

3. The problem is TX Dems are having a hard time finding a good candidate for the job.

Castro brothers don't want to run for gov. Beto hasn't expressed any desire though i actually would prefer he get appointed to a position on Biden's administration. I'd like Austin's Mayor Steve Adler to run but he's not known statewide.

[Budi]

4. I like Adler too. There are a few names being talked about in the inner circles

This will be interesting to see whonthey present as Dem candidate & as soon as Nov election is over, we'll be seeing the same drive goung on now to unseat Repubs in 2020, gather forces to vet a 2022 candidate to turn this State blue.

[MagickMuffin]

6. Has Julian actually said he is not interested?

I wanted him to run against Abbott the last go round. I believe he would win!

[onetexan]

7. They tried to draft him in 2018, no interest

I guess he knew it would be hard to beat an incumbent given how popular Abbott is w conservatives.

[MagickMuffin]

8. And yet he thought he had a chance at the presidency.

He would have the Latino/Latina Votes. Plus everyone else on the democratic ticket.

He has a much better chance at the governor's seat than the presidency. As he learned just recently!

[herding cats]

2. The sharks are circling and there's blood in the water

Paxton is thinking this is his moment to shine, but it appears his era has passed and Texas, thankfully, is finally bleeding its deep red out of the severed artery of hard right conservatism.

[Budi]

5. Well said.

Hard right conservatism has failed America on a level not seen since Europe, WW2.