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TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 11:31 PM Jul 2013

If You Liked Rick Perry, You'll Love Greg Abbott

Confirming the inevitable, yesterday Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that he is running for governor of Texas in 2014. No shock, since this has clearly been his plan for years.

On July 14 Abbott gathered political supporters and the capitol press corps at the traditional set dressing for such announcements, the Alamo. His entry, which has been effectively a done deal since Gov. Rick Perry, announced last week that he will not run again, makes him the presumptive GOP front runner.

Kicking off with comments about his family and saying, "I have lived and breathed the soil & soul of what makes Texas great," Abbott plunged straight into his fundamentalist, extremist platform of God and guns. "Texans don’t silence voices of faith," he warbled, "We fight for them."

Actually, what Abbott has done consistently is use his office to inflict a hard line Evangelical world view on the state. He made his political bones in 2003 by suing to keep the Ten Commandments on the capitol lawn. Since, then, he lured fundamentalist voters by leading the legal charge against Planned Parenthood (and therefore a de facto attack on health care for many women in the state.) Add on to that his suit against health care providers paying for birth control and his push to enforce the highly invasive and deeply distressing mandatory transvaginal ultrasound law.

More at http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/news/2013-07-15/if-you-liked-rick-perry-you-ll-love-greg-abbott/ .

[font color=green]An excellent article warning Texans what to expect if Abbott is elected as governor.[/font]

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If You Liked Rick Perry, You'll Love Greg Abbott (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2013 OP
Let's see, he is against abortion, against health care for the citizens, against sicial nets to help Thinkingabout Jul 2013 #1
Greg is a nasty person Gothmog Jul 2013 #2
Senator Wendy Davis won in Tarrant County. Split ballot voting over keeping birth control pills and DhhD Jul 2013 #3

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Let's see, he is against abortion, against health care for the citizens, against sicial nets to help
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 11:40 PM
Jul 2013

The poor, against regulations which might save lives, damn, and he is for guns to kill but beloved in lives are important.

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
2. Greg is a nasty person
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 07:48 AM
Jul 2013

I was at the same firm as Greg in the late 1980s. He is a nasty person who is not very bright

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
3. Senator Wendy Davis won in Tarrant County. Split ballot voting over keeping birth control pills and
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 05:53 PM
Jul 2013

and other women's health care decision making, is an issue that will overcome Abbot all over Texas. There are other issues that he is not in touch with. He supports no Medicaid Exchange or health care issues that have already been put into place by the ACA. He has to own the fact that he supports removing preexisting conditions of the ACA as an Extremist TEA Man. He supports shifting the tax burden to lower middle class and the poor. He supports defunding for public schools and privatizing.

Many of the same reasons that Perry is not electable again, are the same ideals held by Abbott. Will he debate or not? Perry could not face the music as he was a tripper over the Ops rug.

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