UT-Dallas Students: We Were Excluded From Abbott Event
When Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott unveiled his higher education plan on the University of Texas at Dallas campus Tuesday, students were not invited to watch, according to the president of the university's student government.
The student government had reached out to the campaigns of Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis, inviting each of the gubernatorial candidates to speak to students this month at a large lecture hall, said Brooke Knudtson, the student government's president. Davis' campaign did not respond, and Abbott's campaign declined the offer, saying the candidate would be too busy to visit the campus, Knudtson said.
But Abbott did visit, and the student government wasn't notified, Knudtson said.
“We have around 20,000 students that are potentially voters,” Knudtson said. “We wanted to get both [Abbott and Davis] to come so that their young constituents could hear from them.”
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2014/09/05/abbott-shuts-out-students-higher-education-speech/
[font color=green]This has become standard operating procedure for the Abbott campaign. Earlier in the year Abbott made appearances at high schools around the state touting his education program; however, none of the events were open to the public. Abbott will be a photo-op governor if he is elected in November.
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