As ice melts from last week's storm, Beto O'Rourke tries to turn up heat on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
DENTON — As the North Texas ice melted from last week’s winter blast, Beto O’Rourke on Sunday continued his effort to put the heat on Gov. Greg Abbott for his handling of the 2021 storm that left millions without power and killed more than 240 people.
“The people of Texas understand the failure in leadership,” O’Rourke told The Dallas Morning News. “When we see reporting that tells us that the primary causes for the outage last year have yet to be fixed, like the gas supply, we all know that more changes need to be made, and it looks like we’re not going to get those changes made until we make a change at the top.”
On the third day of his 20-city, 12-day “Keeping the Lights On Tour,” O’Rourke made appearances in Dallas and Denton, highlighted by a visit with Steven Brown, a 24-year-old Dallas man who had his legs amputated last year after developing frostbite during the storm. O’Rourke also staged a rally at a Denton park, where he urged Texans to hold Abbott and others accountable.
“This didn’t have to be our fate. It didn’t have to be our fortune,” O’Rourke said in Denton. “This is no act of God or Mother Nature. This is the failing of the person in the highest position of power in public trust.”
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Those were the words that first popped into my head: "Someone has to do it".
Abbott is turning Texas into a fascist Banana Republic, and someone has to sound the alarm and organize a viable opposition to Mr. Abbott's autocratic tendencies.
Beto is the person to do it. 
he'd be great, he really cares
Protestors ringing sleigh bells outside the next political venue where Governor Gregg is bloviating about what he supposedly did to fix the electric grid.
Of course the Good Guys down here will probably wimp it and do something milquetoast instead. 
