FILE- In this Sept. 30, 2014, file pool photo, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, right, Democratic candidate, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, left, Republican candidate, participate in the final gubernatorial debate in a KERA-TV studio in Dallas. Abbott will begin the final stretch Monday, Oct. 20, in East Texas, riding a comfortable lead in public polls and a 5-to-1 advantage in campaign cash over Davis. (Dallas Morning News, Andy Jacobsohn, Pool, File)
Abbott can’t quell extremism
Re: “We Recommend Greg Abbott for governor,” Friday Editorials.
I am completely shocked and confused at your recommendation of Greg Abbott. You couldn’t recommend Dan Patrick for lieutenant governor, but claim Abbott can hold the growing extremism in the GOP. What exactly is your evidence of this?
This is the man who seems like he sues Obama every day; continues to defend billions in education cuts; continues to defend SB2, an EXTREME bill that cuts services to most of the state and puts women with catastrophic pregnancies in danger; will continue to refuse to expand Medicaid while we lose millions every day, burdening our county health system; and continues the assault on voting rights. But HE is going to rein in GOP extremism?
Then there’s the crony capitalism. The Dallas Morning News showed how Abbott covered up imaginary applications for hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. How on earth do you justify this recommendation?
I thought The News had come to its senses and realized the state GOP has become a self-serving clown show. Sadly, you endorsed the Ringmaster.
Diane Treider, Dallas
@sportsprincess
Revelations in Abbott pick
When I saw that you were endorsing Greg Abbott I wondered immediately how far down I’d have to read before the words “hard-right” would appear.
Not far. There they were, right there in the third paragraph.
I learned in this paragraph that as a participant in the “hard-right swing” in the “ruling party” I am “indifferent to the plight of the working poor, the uninsured or youths caught through no fault of their own in immigration limbo.” I hadn’t realized any of this. I hadn’t realized that I am against working poor people, folks without insurance and immigrant kids. It was a revelation.
I didn’t expect to see anything anywhere in your piece about the “hard left,” but I did learn that Wendy Davis had “demonstrated exceptional courage with her 2013 Senate filibuster to halt legislation aimed at restricting abortion rights.”
Dick Johns, Tyler