Typical of all Abbott responses which were either lies, omissions or promises of fantasyland improvements with no plausible explanation at all of how they would be accomplished in which he obviously had no conviction whatsoever to things particularly such as education and highways based on Perry disastrous policies that he would not change at all. Abbott volunteered nothing about his close connections and payoffs from payday loan stores, chemical stockpilers and polluters, super-rich insurance companies robbing Texas homeowners blind with outrageous premium increases and who knows how many others who had paid him off for favorable official decisions as Attorney General and have dumped dark money into his campaign coffers drooling for the day when they can own him completely as Governor. He also virtually assured Texans that like Perry he would reject 100s of billions of dollars in federal funding so that Texas would not have to follow guidelines from the federal governement despite the pleas of Republican chambers of commerce and judges around the state that he not do so just so that as Wendy Davis put it Texans' federal taxes could keep going to Washington and coming back to California and New York for which she described "Abbott as California's best friend".
Abbott further said he would continue to oppose abortions even for victims of rape and incest be he was "a Catholic". He responded to Wendy Davis' challenge that he as Governor veto any legislative attempt to terminate Texas' so-called "Dream Act" which sets out an official policy for allowing undocumented aliens to continue their studies with higher education. Abbott also reiterated his opposition to providing any schooling for undocumented aliens as well as a mechanism proposed by Wendy Davis whereby they could obtain some form of driver identification that would allow them to legally operate cars and therefore be able to buy insurance as she argued that Texas must accept the current reality that many driving on Texas roads anyway have no means of getting insurance which situation Wendy Davis described as a constant source of large-scale complaint from her constituents involved in accidents with uninsured drivers. Abbott simply took the position the nothing should be done to provide education or means for undocumented aliens to drive and purchase insurance because it was symptomatic of much larger immigration problems of a broken system which the federal government was responsible for fixing.
He made no acknowledgment of the fact that the system has been broken for decades because of competing demands by powerful interests for strict immigration reform fundamentally opposed by the reality that major employers depend entirely on the availability of such labor willing to take below a living wage in order for their businesses to survive. Apparently scant attention has been paid to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's admonition reflecting the longevity of this huge obstacle to immigration reform when he declared during his own Presidency seventy-five years ago that "[a]ny business which depends for its survival on labor paid below a living wage has no place in this country".
If Texans take a good look at anything or even any look at all beyond a thirty-second Abbott TV commercial at this sorry excuse for a man much less a Texan and compare him to a true fighting Texas champion such as Senator Wendy Davis who actually was the will and endurance to hold tight and smack right back in the thick of it already having worked hard for years to make the improvements for Texas she spoke of realities when she is Governor then it is plain to see that pitiful Abbott with his handful of rich dirty masters of his every decision and who will own him in the office they will spend every last taxpayer dollar he illegally gives them to buy him Texas' Governorship that Abbott should in all fairness not stand a chance of winning anything but a seat in the Big House where he has so mercilessly sent so many others for life (and death) even if they can hardly count to three.
Abbott further said he would continue to oppose abortions even for victims of rape and incest be he was "a Catholic". He responded to Wendy Davis' challenge that he as Governor veto any legislative attempt to terminate Texas' so-called "Dream Act" which sets out an official policy for allowing undocumented aliens to continue their studies with higher education. Abbott also reiterated his opposition to providing any schooling for undocumented aliens as well as a mechanism proposed by Wendy Davis whereby they could obtain some form of driver identification that would allow them to legally operate cars and therefore be able to buy insurance as she argued that Texas must accept the current reality that many driving on Texas roads anyway have no means of getting insurance which situation Wendy Davis described as a constant source of large-scale complaint from her constituents involved in accidents with uninsured drivers. Abbott simply took the position the nothing should be done to provide education or means for undocumented aliens to drive and purchase insurance because it was symptomatic of much larger immigration problems of a broken system which the federal government was responsible for fixing.
He made no acknowledgment of the fact that the system has been broken for decades because of competing demands by powerful interests for strict immigration reform fundamentally opposed by the reality that major employers depend entirely on the availability of such labor willing to take below a living wage in order for their businesses to survive. Apparently scant attention has been paid to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's admonition reflecting the longevity of this huge obstacle to immigration reform when he declared during his own Presidency seventy-five years ago that "[a]ny business which depends for its survival on labor paid below a living wage has no place in this country".
If Texans take a good look at anything or even any look at all beyond a thirty-second Abbott TV commercial at this sorry excuse for a man much less a Texan and compare him to a true fighting Texas champion such as Senator Wendy Davis who actually was the will and endurance to hold tight and smack right back in the thick of it already having worked hard for years to make the improvements for Texas she spoke of realities when she is Governor then it is plain to see that pitiful Abbott with his handful of rich dirty masters of his every decision and who will own him in the office they will spend every last taxpayer dollar he illegally gives them to buy him Texas' Governorship that Abbott should in all fairness not stand a chance of winning anything but a seat in the Big House where he has so mercilessly sent so many others for life (and death) even if they can hardly count to three.
This typifies Abbott whose debate responses made it clear that honest, decent, hard-working Texans were not going to have a chance in hell from this corrupt indicted Perry policy clone to advance themselves be it at their homes, work, school, church, healthcare non-provider nor anything meaningful at all in their lives because if they allow this corrupt old boy completely out of tune with the present realities of the Nation's second most populous state they will continue to have no friend at all in the Texas Governor's mansion.
Just more of the same that is driving all but the very richest in and out of the state into the more and more contaminated and paved ground under more polluted water and the dirtiest skies in the Nation suffering on in the continued Texas "freefall" started by the so-called indicted Perry Texas "miracle" of taking a great state with strong schools and clean environment and reasonable health and safety laws and standards to one where as the Republican dying old boy network mumbles and drools repeatedly that Texans have the "right to work" only problem being that that is hard to appreciate when one is dead from lack of training and prematurely ended education, health care, most every social service and unable to breathe the air befouled the air by the likes of Perry, Abbott and the whole rotten GOP crowd's "dark money" Texas-spoiling cronies propping them up in office to do their bidding.
Just more of the same that is driving all but the very richest in and out of the state into the more and more contaminated and paved ground under more polluted water and the dirtiest skies in the Nation suffering on in the continued Texas "freefall" started by the so-called indicted Perry Texas "miracle" of taking a great state with strong schools and clean environment and reasonable health and safety laws and standards to one where as the Republican dying old boy network mumbles and drools repeatedly that Texans have the "right to work" only problem being that that is hard to appreciate when one is dead from lack of training and prematurely ended education, health care, most every social service and unable to breathe the air befouled the air by the likes of Perry, Abbott and the whole rotten GOP crowd's "dark money" Texas-spoiling cronies propping them up in office to do their bidding.
In truth it is a complete mystery why Abbott and his old boy cronies and those who pay them off are not already in federal prison given that their boss corrupt indicted GOP Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry despite all his mockery of the criminal justice system may soon be there himself for a maximum term of 99 years. In the meantime for those who missed it Abbott was so confused by his own lies and omissions by the end of the debate that he called himself "Governor" of Texas when he told all he had not done (actually as Attorney General) but would when he was "Governor" .
Finally in one of Abbott's most disingenuous moments of the debate when Senator Wendy Davis referred to the $100 million that Abbott now has received back in Texas taxpayers' money from recipients of Texas Enterprise Fund millions meant to promote Texas businesses but who had never even filed applications for the money that Abbott's office was required to collect and evaluate and maintain but now reports are nowhere to be found Abbott claimed he was "glad' that she had brought it up as he was always grateful to be apprised of such new information. New information indeed as Abbott no doubt is perfectly aware that the Texas Enterprise Fund applications are as Senator Wendy Davis charged the responsibility of Abbott's office to manage and it would seem most unlikely that Abbott was unaware he received $100 million dollars in return from recipients who had never even applied for funds meant to promote Texas business enterprises and not to reward the responsible Texas state official who had allowed them to be disbursed to parties who had not even requested them.
And this comes as news to Perry's Attorney General Texas chief law enforcer (or was it violator) Abbott? These guys should keep recording devices under their desks (if Perry even has a desk) because things are beginning to sound eerily similar to their fellow party hero Richard Nixon and his co-conspirators shrugging off their crimes (recorded a on taping mechanism maintained on the orders of Nixon himself) right until days before Nixon would find himself to the first and only President in United States history forced to resign from office because of his criminal acts.
Incidentally after watching Perry engaging in continuous corrupt actions and Abbott speechless but unapologetic in the face being confronted by a laundry list of his criminal payoffs and tainted official acts even as the State's highest law "enforcement" official one may perhaps understand the absence of Texas law enforcement on the scene since virtually everyone in Texas civil service owes their job to Perry at this point because of his interminable Governorship and because of his amply demonstrated willingness to flaunt the law abusing his office with reprisals and paybacks routinely without any apparent reprercussion. But one must ask where the hell the rest of the feds have been in Texas? Is this the south side of Boston where the mob owns the feds or what?
One might suspect with good reason that the Texas good old boys own the feds here as well given the feds' complacency in the face of seemingly largely unconcealed wrongdoing at least until bringing back the recent grand jury indictment against the "debate miracle" brain dead still standing idiot Texas Governor Rick "Payback" Perry hustled back off to run Texas to get some glasses and continue as Texas Governor again and now reputed 2016 Presidential re-hopeful provided his is not in prison and his handlers can squeeze enough WD-40 into his above-the-shoulder orifices as least to keep him running for about two minutes at a time like a dying horse getting that last shot of speed before the final laps of his career or the boxer slobbering against the ropes pumped up for one last round and pointed and prodded in the direction of the opponent before the fight is called and he is sent off for permanent "recuperation" never again to appear in the ring or even speak a complete sentence in public.
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Finally in one of Abbott's most disingenuous moments of the debate when Senator Wendy Davis referred to the $100 million that Abbott now has received back in Texas taxpayers' money from recipients of Texas Enterprise Fund millions meant to promote Texas businesses but who had never even filed applications for the money that Abbott's office was required to collect and evaluate and maintain but now reports are nowhere to be found Abbott claimed he was "glad' that she had brought it up as he was always grateful to be apprised of such new information. New information indeed as Abbott no doubt is perfectly aware that the Texas Enterprise Fund applications are as Senator Wendy Davis charged the responsibility of Abbott's office to manage and it would seem most unlikely that Abbott was unaware he received $100 million dollars in return from recipients who had never even applied for funds meant to promote Texas business enterprises and not to reward the responsible Texas state official who had allowed them to be disbursed to parties who had not even requested them.
And this comes as news to Perry's Attorney General Texas chief law enforcer (or was it violator) Abbott? These guys should keep recording devices under their desks (if Perry even has a desk) because things are beginning to sound eerily similar to their fellow party hero Richard Nixon and his co-conspirators shrugging off their crimes (recorded a on taping mechanism maintained on the orders of Nixon himself) right until days before Nixon would find himself to the first and only President in United States history forced to resign from office because of his criminal acts.
Incidentally after watching Perry engaging in continuous corrupt actions and Abbott speechless but unapologetic in the face being confronted by a laundry list of his criminal payoffs and tainted official acts even as the State's highest law "enforcement" official one may perhaps understand the absence of Texas law enforcement on the scene since virtually everyone in Texas civil service owes their job to Perry at this point because of his interminable Governorship and because of his amply demonstrated willingness to flaunt the law abusing his office with reprisals and paybacks routinely without any apparent reprercussion. But one must ask where the hell the rest of the feds have been in Texas? Is this the south side of Boston where the mob owns the feds or what?
One might suspect with good reason that the Texas good old boys own the feds here as well given the feds' complacency in the face of seemingly largely unconcealed wrongdoing at least until bringing back the recent grand jury indictment against the "debate miracle" brain dead still standing idiot Texas Governor Rick "Payback" Perry hustled back off to run Texas to get some glasses and continue as Texas Governor again and now reputed 2016 Presidential re-hopeful provided his is not in prison and his handlers can squeeze enough WD-40 into his above-the-shoulder orifices as least to keep him running for about two minutes at a time like a dying horse getting that last shot of speed before the final laps of his career or the boxer slobbering against the ropes pumped up for one last round and pointed and prodded in the direction of the opponent before the fight is called and he is sent off for permanent "recuperation" never again to appear in the ring or even speak a complete sentence in public.
Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
