The Charles Butt Public Education PAC kicked in $1.3 million to House GOP candidates from Jan. 26-Feb. 24, mostly to anti-voucher incumbents being targeted by Abbott.
Six-figure recipients were Allison, Bailes, VanDeaver & Kuempel.
#txlege
Texas is a TOP state for woman, minority, and veteran-owned businesses.
The more than 3.1 MILLION small businesses that call Texas home provide good-paying careers for Texans from every community.
#SmallBizWeekTexas
@KaterinaKokolis
@JohnBrennan
I for one have been drinking more Diet Coke and eating more fast food since Dr. Jackson pronounced that a junk food diet and no regular exercise hasn’t affected Trumps health. Maybe the VA can just issue vouchers for the McDonalds drive-through in lieu of medical benefits?
The lawlessness we're seeing at the southern border is the result of Biden refusing to enforce the law.
Texas is a law & order state.
We will continue doing the federal government’s job & securing the border.
#SouthlakeCarroll
ISD has over 60 open teachers positions & told us Parents tonight to expect classes w/o teachers. End result of
#ChristianNationalism
scaring away our teachers & counselors over last 3 years.IF THIS CAN HAPPEN IN MY ISD, IT CAN HAPPEN IN YOURS!
PLEASE RETWEET!
BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts lower court ruling allowing pregnant woman to have an abortion. The court will further rule on the appeal.
Background:
@KUT
I’ve asked the members of the Texas Restaurant Association, Texas Package Stores Association & all Texas retailers to voluntarily remove all Russian products from their shelves.
Texas stands with Ukraine.
#StandWithUkraine
@kminorschneider
@Miriam2626
Thank you for sharing Kathy. My late father shared the history of the Holocaust early in my life and I’ve studied more than most WASP I suspect? I always asked myself why would German citizens of 1933 could go along w. Nazi’s? Now I know.”Group think” & apathy is a lethal combo😞
Adrienne Martin finally had enough of extremists in her deep-red community trying to get books banned and to inject religion into her child’s school. Listen to her kick-ass speech before the Granbury Texas school board. It’s going viral for a reason.
@MrsAMartini
Texans: NEVER FORGET that NOT ONE member of Texas
#GOP
Congressional Delegation voted for the $35.44 BILLION Texas will receive for rural broadband, ports, bridges and roads.
Texas will receive about $35.44 billion over five years for roads, bridges, pipes, ports, broadband access and other projects after federal lawmakers passed a long-anticipated national infrastructure bill on Friday.
BREAKING: Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader, has died, the country's prison service says. He had been in jail since January 2021.
Gov. Perry gave us deregulated utilities and now Texans pays some of highest kWh price for electricity in USA. And Texans freeze to death once in a while.
NO to “School Choice”.
Republicans in Texas should support school choice. When I left the Democrats and joined the
@GOP
in 1989, my decision was driven in large part to the principles laid out by President Ronald Reagan. He knew that character counts and competition makes you stronger.
#txlege
🧵
@donwinslow
Jenna Ryan’s defense was ...” I’m a normal person who just listened to my President who told me to go to Capital” ...
I believe that defense was knocked-down at the Nuremberg Trial in post-Nazi Germany in 1945-46? The “Hitler told me to do it” defense is void.
@MarshaBlackburn
But the government controlling your uterus is just fine?
With all due respect, Senator Blackburn, you’re dumber than a box-of-rocks. 🪨 📦 🪨
Senator Cornyn participated in the ribbon-cutting for the Veterans International Bridge.
He voted against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which funded the majority of this expansion.
@jennycohn1
Exactly how do you explain to your 3 young kids that you’re getting kicked off
#ChristianNationalist
Island for a ménage à trois and your daddy is under arrest for sexual assault against your “girlfriend”?
(I make no judgements what consenting adults do. Just against hypocrisy)
Texas remains a law & order state.
I look forward to signing into law multiple bipartisan bills to keep dangerous criminals off our streets & hold rogue district attorneys accountable.
The safety & security of Texans will always be a top priority.
@GregAbbott_TX
@HoustonChron
And up till Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022, you
#GregAbbott
were blaming
#JoeBiden
for failing to encourage US onshore oil & gas exploration & production. 3 months later, Boom💥, record oil & gas royalty & tax revenues for Texas.Were you lying to us during the election season, Gov?
Republicans have controlled the Texas Education Agency (TEA)
@teainfo
for 28 YEARS, yet
#GregAbbott
blames racial and sexual activism for the TEA’s failure. GASLIGHTER 👇
Reading & math scores plummet as racial and sexual activism replace academics in schools.
Instead of prioritizing data-proven methods to close gaps in literacy & math, some public schools have spent time on political agendas.
We’re changing that in TX.
JUSTICE DENIED!😡 Penalty of 15 hours of ethics classes & $300K cash penalty are ABSURD!
Texas AG
#KenPaxton
reaches deal allowing him to AVOID TRIAL in criminal securities fraud case via
@houstonchron
The 300th Texas bus of migrants just left for Chicago.
As Biden does nothing, Texas will continue taking unprecedented action to relieve our overwhelmed border communities & secure the border.
In 2022, 42,000 Texans left for California, as Bay Area seeing a sizable influx of new residents relocating from Texas - CBS San Francisco
WHY? My guess is
#GregAbbott
& right-wing
#txlege
#ChristianNationalism
#Roe
overturned, Mass shootings. TIME TO GO?
Ass-backwards Federal judge in Texas overturns mandates to cover drugs that prevent HIV infection.
#ChristianNationalism
ruling from bench could spread HIV, in my opinion. WTAF 😱
That North Texas Capitol rioter Jenna Ryan compares verbal attacks on herself to treatment of ‘Jews in Germany’ & the Holocaust demonstrates both her depravity & ignorance between a genocide and her own self-pity. She is offensive to humanity
@ADL
How many Texans are SICK & FU€KING TIRED of
#TedCruz
“thoughts and prayers” 🐄 💩 after every mass AR-15 killing spree?
And Ted does NOTHING every damn time.
Empathy without deeds is just soulless window dressing for his base.
Ted only pontificates, he doesn’t legislate.
@GregAbbott_TX
Q: Instead of minimal smoke & mirror property tax relief, why not invest $15,000,000,000 in K-12 Texas public schools and educate our workforce of the future?
A: Because
#GregAbbott
is an ass-backwards populist
#GOP
clown 🤡!
@chiproytx
WTAF?😡 Less than one year ago,
#ChipRoy
was 1 of 3 republicans in House who voted against HR 55, also known as
#EmmettTill
Anti-Lynching Act. The anti-lynching bill passed 423-3, with Chip 1 of 3 who voted AGAINST.
STFU
#ChipRoy
You lost your right to quote Dr. King, forever!
NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott in an interview with Fox News emphasized mental health in response to the Allen mall shooting.
"People want a quick solution," Abbott said. "The long-term solution here is to address the mental health issue."
5 year-old boy critically injured in Texas
#JoelOsteen
megachurch shooting is son of suspect in attack, police say.
Deceased mother had mental illness history & AR-type gun.
PERMIT-LESS GUN CARRY WORKING AS EXPECTED!
#GregAbbottFailedTexasAgain
🩸
@GregAbbott_TX
Your solutions Governor appear to be reactive and expensive compared to proactive measures…such as mandatory mask wearing in Texas schools. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to stop the spread compared to treating the spread?
More BIG GOVERNMENT solutions from
@GovAbbott
#MaskTheKids
😷
@GregAbbott_TX
NEWS FLASH 6:15 Texas Time
#GregAbbott
just announced “ IT’S NOT THE GRID” why your power is out! “It’s the tree’s”
Which begs the question: Why don’t Texas utilities put more power lines underground?
A: It cost more and utilities donate to Abbott so they don’t have to upgrade
I deleted my retweet about a Canadian protestor being trampled to death because the journalist who first reported it now says it was in error.
I remain deeply concerned about the abuse—seizing money & employing violence against peaceful protesters—that we’re seeing in Canada.
@GregAbbott_TX
#GregAbbott
is misleading Texas!💀
62,371 Dead Texans from Covid
July 19: 10 Texans died from Covid
Sept. 19: 295 Texans died from Covid
Data Per
@nytimes
at 7:00pm CDT Sunday September 19, 2021 ⤵️
Due to
#ATT
campaign contributions of $100,000 to
#GregAbbott
& financial support of One America Network, The Uhl’s are no longer customers of
#ATT
as of TODAY!
And we saved 30% monthly on new cell & TV app service! No patronizing companies who support
#GQPTraitorsToDemocracy
Regarding the largest fire in Texas history,
@GregAbbott_TX
says, "It could have been worse." I shit you not.
THEN, he gets the death toll wrong.
This was the first press conference he's held on day six of the largest fire in Texas history.
#txlege
Gilberto Hinojosa needs to retire.
#TexasDemocrats
chair elections should occur in off-cycle years, not four months before midterms, A new chair needs a long runway to implement a multi-media/multi-channel statewide promotion of primary candidates who can win in general election
.
@texasdemocrats
needs to be overhauled. It is out of touch and unresponsive. Leadership needs to change. Until that is fixed we will continue doing the same things and expecting different results. You must go to the next convention in 2 years to vote to fix this.
As
#GOP
#IowaCaucus
is underway, do you think
#GOP
voters or presidential candidates even noticed that the High-School Principal DIED🩸TODAY, from last week’s mass gun-shooting at an Iowa high-school?
Or should we, as
#DonaldTrump
says “GET OVER IT ? 😡
@waryas_carol
@alexazura
I’m not an expert on federal voting rights law however I would think that it would be worth investigating to determine if there has been a possible violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 here?
@CivilRights
@TheJusticeDept
OUTRAGE!
@GregAbbott_TX
is posting on
@Facebook
about the decisive culture wars at 9:00pm SUNDAY NIGHT, 22 hours ago.⬇️
HE’S NOT in WEATHER CRISIS MANAGEMENT MODE, BUT IN CULTURE-WAR MODE!
I’m starting to think
@ERCOT_ISO
WAS DEFUNDED ? TEXAN’S ARE FREEZING TONIGHT! WTF ?😡
#FixTheGrid
as my family and our neighbors sit in darkness as the interior temp of my house goes up w/o air conditioning here in NE Tarrant County.
#Oncor
map indicates multiple outages across DFW now. ⤵️
#GregAbbottFailedTexasAgain
p.s.
#ERCOT
you suck too!
INBOX: Kate Cox, the 31-year-old Dallas woman blocked from getting an emergency abortion by the Texas Supreme Court last week, has been forced to flee the state to get it done, according to her lawyers at the Center for
@ReproRights
.
Background:
#txlege
Today,
#GregAbbott
is a BIG GOVERNMENT politician, because Texas
#GOP
state government could never had foreseen a Pandemic coming and prepared accordingly. No public health planning or readiness at all, Gov.?
Just like the
#TexasFreeze
failure in Feb. 21 !
#AbbottFailedTexas
The State of Texas has submitted requests for federally-supported COVID-19 testing sites, medical personnel, and increased monoclonal antibody allocations.
More info:
@TexasDSHS
@TDEM
@GregAbbott_TX
Where is Texas going to get our educated workers of the future to keep our economy strong when you’re giving 1-time property tax cuts instead of using that $15,000,000,000 to invest in K-12 public schools students in Texas?
#GregAbbott
fails to invest in Texas’ future! 😞
This U.S. Senate bill is a joke. It would still allow up to 5,000 a day to enter our country. Any Republican Senator who votes for this bill should be voted out of office. They are selling out our party, my state of Texas, and this country.
Lt. Governor
Dan Patrick
Chair of
Key Tip for candidates for elected office in 2022: INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE NEAREST CITY in your tweets so Texans can search on Google Maps to roughly find your legislative district on a map. Texas is bigger than France. Don’t assume we all memorize political districts by numbers
@JohnCornyn
I CALL 🐄 💩 !!
Aside from his directionless and anti-democratic rule,
#Trump
ballooned the national debt by 40% from 2017 -2020 tax cut that raised National Debt from $20T to $28 Trillion, which is contributory to inflation today. And Sen. Cornyn voted for it! HYPOCRITE JOHN!
@RonnyJacksonTX
That
#RonnyJackson
(TX-13) has drawn a conclusion without convening a single meeting of the House Select Subcommittee on the Corona Virus Pandemic affirms that
#GOPClownShow
is incapable of governing & is a threat to democratic values and our republic
Have another drink🥃 Ronny
REMEMBER, the elected
#MAGA
republicans that today are opposed to
#Border
legislation are SAME
#GOP
legislators who voted AGAINST
@JoeBiden
$1B INFRASTRUCTURE BILL in 2021, & now take credit for bridges & broadband with their constituents, despite voting against. STAY TUNED 😳
@TurnTexas_Blue
The $1.75M was donated by the co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus. I don’t believe the 93 year-old fart has any interest in Home Depot any longer ?
Today I approved funding to launch an Election Audit Division within the Texas Secretary of State’s office.
This audit will be the most comprehensive forensic audit in the country.
Ensuring the integrity of our elections is critical to our democracy.
Texas just added nearly $2B to secure our border.
The border crisis goes beyond the RGV & our South Texas communities—the smuggling of drugs, people, & weapons reaches far & wide throughout our state.
These funds will help Texas continue to do Biden's job & secure our border.
@LaneyHawes
@KellerISD
@Mike_Hixenbaugh
@BudKennedy
@mentack
Appears there is now a vacancy on the KISD school board that will need to be filled, presumably by election on Saturday May 4, 2024 ?
Do we know of a highly-qualified and tenacious pro-public school parent that might want to throw her hat in the ring?
@POTUS
speech tonight on par with Lyndon B. Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” speech in 1965 and FDR’s Inaugural address in 1933.🇺🇸
“ Everyone should be treated with dignity, no safe harbor for hate, opening doors, focusing on the future….everyone needs to do their part” !
@DWUhlfelderLaw
German school teachers and librarians are removing all books from libraries and classrooms to avoid criminal prosecution by Adolf Hitler, circa 1934.
#History
Repeats for
#GOP
😞
1. 10 Dead Texans at Houston Concert, Abbott convenes Task Force and holds hearings;
2. 34 Mass SHOOTINGS in Texas in 2020 and 3139 dead Texans by guns; NO Task Force nor hearings by Greg Abbott.
3.
#AbbottFailedTexas
Texas Task Force on Concert Safety holds second in-person meeting in Bryan.
I created this Task Force following the tragedy at Astroworld Festival to develop ways to enhance safety & security at live music events in Texas.
More here:
NEW:
@JohnCornyn
's thoughts on abortion & Kate Cox legal case:
-TX Supreme Court interpreted the law
#txlege
wrote "appropriately"
-"We're in a period of transition" after Roe v Wade
-Says he supports the conversation going on with voters about what abortions should be legal
@HeathMayo
Perhaps
@ProjectLincoln
evolves to a caucus of progressive republicans and conservative democrats that focus on reducing national debt, lowering healthcare cost to 15%/GDP (private and Medicare), disavowing culture wars (life/choice debate not here) & promote civility in gov’t?
@GregAbbott_TX
#GregAbbott
going full MAGA hyperbole tonight on his unofficial personal account so none of the multi-national companies headquartered in Texas can hear him.
I have seen enough. To beat Biden, Republicans need to unite around a single candidate, and it’s clear that President Trump is Republican voters’ choice. Four more years of failed domestic policies like the Biden Border Crisis and record-high inflation, and failed foreign
@POTUS
President
@JoeBiden
, Hopefully this short commute is, in some small way, a bit of a payback for the 36 years that you commuted 3-hours a day on Amtrak from Delaware to the
@USSenate
, AND BACK, so you could be with your young family every night.
Thank you and Godspeed!
Seat Flipped! Marilyn Lands is our new Democratic Representative for House District 10! Congratulations
@MarilynForAL
! This is a victory for Democrats in Alabama and for women's right to choose! The Tide is Turning!
#RoeRoeRoeandVote
@RonnyJacksonTX
@utmbhealth
should be investigated for giving Ronny Jackson (TX-13) a Medical Degree (M.D.), IMO.
Your anti-science / anti-vax rhetoric is contradictory to your Hippocratic Oath, IMO.
@RonnyJacksonTX
Ronny Jackson (TX-13) is in such a stupor he doesn’t realize that Dr. Fauci worked twice as long during the
#Trump
Administration as he did during the
#Biden
Administration.
Apparently Ronny will be holding the Trump Administration to account for “every heinous action” …?
YES! 👏🏻 ABOUT F’ ING TIME!
Texas AG
#KenPaxtonTX
will be deposed in 7-year-old fraud case after election, lawyer says
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As I’m walking past the
#Tesla
dealership off the Magnificent Mile just now, I couldn’t help but notice the advertisement for a $7,500 federal tax credit from the company who’s CEO claims to be an ANTI BIG-GOVERNMENT
#MAGA
libertarian.
Subsidized hypocrisy by Elon ?
It's been less than 24 hours since temps dropped below freezing & ERCOT is already asking Texans to conserve. ONE FREAKING DAY!
#AbbottFailedTexasAgain
ERCOT is asking Texans to conserve energy on Monday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.
@HawkeyeInDallas
Don’t forget the prostitution sting in Frisco and Southlake this past week that netted a pastor, a football coach, a high school teacher…
Yes, North Texas has a problem ….with the hypocrisy of self-professed piety of conservative men….just sayin