Texas Gov.-Elect Greg Abbott Cons the Masses

In response to the 1/9/15 article re: “Gov.-elect Greg Abbott: End local bans on bags, fracking, tree-cutting”

Gov-elect Greg Abbott talks a good game, but he is like so many Conservatives when it comes to picking and choosing what rights they want to defend and when they want to defend them. 

As soon as the oil companies are permitted to and want to take our

lands for mineral and oil rights, or when a city, county or the state

wants to take our land to build through a new toll road,  Abbott and

legislators will work against Texas homeowners and their property

rights and/or will not pay top dollar to take that property from us.

I'm all for government staying out of our lives, but right now Democrats AND Republicans at state, county and city levels tell us what to do and they determine what rights we can keep and what rights they will remove for their own gain.

Confucius tells us to "Beware of the man who blows hot and cold with one breath." 

Greg Abbott is such a man.

Texas AG and candidate for Governor Greg Abbott pushes to transfer water

Republican Greg Abbott, who was the first to lay claim to the 2014 gubernatorial race in Texas, wants to transfer water from one place to another as the best and immediate plan to help ease water shortages throughout the state.

Firstly, why is it okay when Republicans want to propose government gets more involved in our daily lives?  When the Democrats do it, Republicans raise holy hell.

World's largest desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

Secondly, transferring water removes water from where it is needed.

Thirdly, this is no long-term solution.  It may not even be a short term solution.  If it doesn't rain, the problems grow.

Furthermore, if government wants to get involved, which it shouldn't, why aren't we developing rain water catching options along with water desalination plants to turn salt water into fresh water? 

Yes, it costs a lot of money currently, so reward private companies who invent cheaper ways of doing it.  These 2 methods would go a longer and better way towards solving our fresh water issues than simply transferring water from one area to another.


Gregg Abbott continues to show us that he is NOT the best solution for Texas when it comes to choosing a candidate for Governor and neither is his proposal sound that would transfer water from one area of Texas to another.  However, it is a grand plan for wealthy special interests to collect more profits without ensuring a long-term supply of water for Texans.

Texans often seem to settle in their choices for political candidates and it's time to make a more intelligent selection.  Unfortunately, so far there is only a handful of mediocre candidates for Texans to consider for Governor.   Hopefully, other more qualified candidates will emerge.

Will the South Rise Again?

Another Civil War anyone?

Most of the "red" states have been or are fighting for a Voter Photo ID Card that will make voters in the respective states show the card in order to vote.

Recently, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court determined to strike down part of the Voter Law that enables states to bypass a previous decision against a Voter Photo ID Card.  Previously it was deemed unconstitutional and "racist" to demand that voters must show the card at polls.

As soon as the vote was in, Texas approved the Voter Photo ID Card and now Attorney General Eric Holder is demanding that the Federal Court in San Antonio, Texas, requires Texas to ask for Federal permission prior to changing any Voter laws.

Holder sites as his reasoning that Texas has been one of "those states" that has had "racist issues" in its past and therefore, to ensure voting integrity, must seek Federal permission, a.k.a., oversight, before changing ANY of its Voter laws.

Texas, along with Alabama, Wisconsin, Montana, Mississippi and several other "red" states is being "targeted" by Holder and the Obama administration for their respective changes in Voter laws.

Not surprising to anyone, neither side is willing to give an inch on this issue and it is sure to come to a head eventually.  Will the South rise again in this fight?  Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott declares that Texas will win this battle.

It's going to be an interesting fight as both sides are gearing up for a prolonged  battle in the courts.

Texas is a Dictatorship!

Texas appears to be little more than a Dictatorship...

I am a centrist or centered Republican and I am not pro-abortion per se, but I am for right to privacy and for individual rights.  That said, I don't believe that women should use abortion as a means of birth control.  That's just wrong.

A few years ago Chinese officials made the choice to kill female babies when they were born as a means of birth control.  That was wrong.

What Gov. Perry and Lt. Gov. Dewhurst did re: the "anti-abortion" bill by using heavy-handed political extremist tactics was also wrong.  Attorney General Greg Abbott has the same mentality.

If the state wants to educate women before and during their pregnancies, I'm all for it.  But for the state simply to dictate what women, their doctors and women's clinics must do is just damn wrong!

The state doesn't want outside interference in managing state affairs, but it is too quick to step in and regulate what the GOP and/or "Right to Life" and/or religious supporters want.  That's wrong.

The state doesn't want to regulate businesses in Texas, but it does want to regulate women, abortion clinics and public school districts.  That's wrong.

So, in Texas it seems that regulation is good when it is good for the extreme Republican majority, but not good otherwise.

However, there is no doubt that if the Democrats were in control of the legislature here in Texas, they also would have used heavy-handed methods to get what they want.

What I'm saying is that there is no room for extremist politics in Texas [or at the national level].  It is just wrong.

To push extremist politics on all the people is nothing more than a dictatorship, no matter what your individual beliefs are.  Few lawmakers seem to want to work together, to work on compromise and to arrive at more intelligent and rational decisions and resolutions.

That just seems more like a Dictatorship... and that's just wrong!

One of AG Greg Abbott's first campaign ads for Texas Governor...

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and here's another one...

AG Greg Abbott is wheel-chairing for Texas Governor

Don't know if you've been following the start of Attorney General Greg Abbott's run for Governor.

Abbott gave Perry a few days after making the announcement that he will not seek reelection next year.
It makes me ill that Abbott, who around 1986 or so became disabled in a freak accident whereby a tree fell on him as he was out jogging, flaunts his disability by saying stuff like "Some people say they have a spine of steel, but I really have one."

FYI, I am a 100 percent disabled veteran.  Most people don't know that about me because I don't flaunt it.  It really bugs me that Abbott has no problem using his disability to gain more votes.  But I guess that's what politicians do... use whatever they think will get them more votes.

It also doesn't seem to bother him that he and Perry pushed to eliminate "frivolous lawsuits" and yet Abbott became a millionaire from exactly such a lawsuit when he became disabled.

 One of the things Greg Abbott will [try to] use to his advantage is the fact that his wife is of Mexican origin.  It will be interesting to see how the Hispanic population of Texas views and reacts to it as the gubernatorial campaign progresses.

All that said... I think Abbott has some good points for Governor, it loses a lot when you hear him say things like, "My day [as AG] consists of going to work, suing the Federal Government and going home."
In fact, Abbott is supremely proud that he has sued the Federal Government [or as he is fond of saying, "suing Obama"] 27 times, the most of any State Attorney General in the US.

His significant pride, rigidity and excessive aggression may not be what Texans need in their next Governor.  We've already had those characteristics for 12 years in Rick Perry and even longer if you look at George Walker Bush's history before Perry.

I believe we need a different persona in our next Governor:  someone with intelligence and someone who is more grounded on issues.   We surely do NOT need another extremist as Governor.
Many credit Perry on creating jobs and building our successful economy.  Few seem to realize that Texas is a very special place, with an economy based on oil and high tech foundations.  As history does show, the Texas economy does well under Republican and Democrat governors.  In fact, the Texas economy has a life of its own, so to give Perry credit for it all is, at the least, incorrect.

So far, once again the Democrats do NOT have a significant candidate to run against Greg Abbott; however, Tom Pauken is running as a Republican against Abbott in the Primary.  If you don't know anything about Pauken, you would do well to review his credentials.  He campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and he is a lot more grounded as a Republican than either Perry or Abbott.


While he may not have the name recognition and the money on hand that Abbott does, he may be a better candidate for the majority of Texans.

Of course, all the potential candidates have not yet been heard from, but I suspect there will be a handful of GOP, Democrats, Libertarians, Green Party and Independent candidates ready to throw their hats into the gubernatorial ring.

Let's hope Texans make a better choice than they have during the past decade.

Endless Extremist Leadership

I'm a centrist Republican (centered on most issues) and it burns me up how the Repugs will fight for THEIR agenda items without hesitation or respite, but continue to do so little for the majority of Texans.

I know both sides do the same thing because we live in a time where there is no middle ground and none of our leaders want to work towards a good future for all Texans, but it really disgusts me how little the community matters in the eyes of the opposite extremist running our state and nation.

We need to vote in people who can work well with each other to improve life for all Americans.