Texas state senator says Abbott 'has tried to bamboozle' community after Uvalde shooting

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Texas state senator accused Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday of trying to “bamboozle” Texans “into thinking that we’re actually going to do something” following a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last month that left 21 people dead.

During an interview on CNN, anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) to respond to Abbott’s announcement earlier in the day that he had requested the lieutenant governor and Texas House Speaker to convene special legislative committees focusing on school safety, mental health, social media, police training and firearm safety.

Gutierrez, whose district includes Uvalde, said the call for committees, like similar actions after previous mass shootings in the state, would not bring about meaningful reform, adding that there was no process to convene special committees unless the governor called a special session.

“He … has tried to bamboozle, I think, this community into thinking that we’re actually going to do something,” the state senator said of Abbott. “He did this — this is the same deal that he did after Santa Fe and El Paso and Sutherland Springs, roundtables, recommendations, and nothing led to any meaningful legislation.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-state-senator-says-abbott-has-tried-to-bamboozle-community-after-uvalde-shooting/ar-AAXYLvF

[TigressDem]

1. Maybe people can monitor and push some action through these committees.

Instead of just trusting the process, follow it, dog it.

Be in the back of the room with signs "The Whole World Is WATCHING. Do the right thing."

BUT from what I heard he AT LEAST wants to raise the age to acquire a gun to 21. Not a huge improvement, but some.

[onecaliberal]

2. Repukes will NEVER lift a finger. They're trying to pacify the devastated community.

I'd still love to know how this majority brown community elected a racist pig as their mayor?

[Ray Bruns]

3. He had an R beside his name.

[onecaliberal]

4. What do they point to when asked how these people improve their lives?

[Ray Bruns]

5. HE HAS AN R BESIDE HIS NAME.

All they need to know.

[onecaliberal]

7. Got it.

[bsiebs]

9. Im with you... I want to know how those republicans get elected there...

I know... Raw Story.. but anyway...


From article:

Uvalde is a segregated city, according to Neil Meyer, a former attorney who grew up there. On one side are the brown people. They are far and away Uvalde’s majority. The town’s population is 15,000. Nearly 80 percent identify as Hispanic or Latino. They are poor. They are working class. One in three lives in poverty. They vote Democratic.

On the other side are white people. They have more money and property. They own the biggest business. They employ the most people. They control the government. They vote Republican.


https://www.rawstory.com/what-the-uvalde-police-department-is-hiding-white-power-killed-those-kids/

[machoneman]

11. Yes, yes, yes! Does anyone doubt that if it were white kids they would have charged in? Why die for

poor Latino kids?

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. Well of course he has

it's his stock in trade.

[Pyryck]

8. Abbott is a figurehead, sock puppet and PR face of Texas state government, just like Dubya was

If we Texans want anything actually done, then "Preacher" Dan Patrick, Lt Gov and power behind the throne, is the one to address any legislative issues because the Lt Gov "runs" the Texas state legislature. Gov Abbott just rolls around and whips out his pen to sign whatever the Lt Gov gives him to sign.

[hibbing]

10. Ahh, yes, social media, not video games and rap music too? n/t

[UTUSN]

12. "roundtables, recommendations, and nothing led to any meaningful legislation"

[Skittles]

13. file that under NO SHIT

the blow back was so severe this time that Abbott has to take measures to make it seem like he cares about slaughtered kids, while waiting for the outrage to die down so he really doesn't have to do anything