Pointing to Valley virus surge, Democrats call on Abbott to lock down portions of state
Two Rio Grande Valley congressmen called for Gov. Greg Abbott to institute or allow some kind of lockdown or stay-at-home order at a news conference near the state Capitol on Wednesday.
U.S. Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela were joined by fellow lawmakers Sheila Jackson Lee, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia and Joaquin Castro in calls for the governor to take more action on the pandemic, and to do it quickly.
“We’re very concerned that the governor is not acting swiftly and he is not acting strategically to prevent deaths,” Gonzalez said Wednesday.
According to Gonzalez, D-McAllen, people in his district are dying at two-and-a-half times the rate of people across the state of Texas.
Read more: https://www.themonitor.com/2020/07/22/pointing-valley-virus-surge-dems-call-abbott-lock-portions-state/
(McAllen Monitor)
