The News’ recommendation of Greg Abbott for governor of Texas was disappointing to me.
Any reliance that Mr. Abbott will be a force to help realign the Texas GOP to become more moderate is sorely misplaced.
Your recommendation places more credence in the fear of upsetting the apple cart of radical fanaticism currently occupying much of representative space in Austin than actually moving toward “a state governed with fairness, compassion and transparency.”
I believe Mr. Abbott’s time on the Texas Supreme Court and in the attorney general’s office have clearly demonstrated that the imposition of his personal beliefs on all Texans is more important that any sense of fairness or compassion to the people he purports to serve.
With Greg Abbott at the helm, bolstered with the dollars of special interest groups and zealots, I believe what is now extreme will become the new moderate and any progressive ideas will be relegated to the past.
Texas is changing, and its politics and policies need to reflect all people, not the select few.
Supporting the election of Greg Abbott only serves to further disenfranchise women, minorities, the working poor and uninsured. I think Wendy Davis needs to be Texas’s next governor.
Mary Winermote, Arlington