Don Huffines ???

[DaveC]

Nope, the more I hear and see him the more I can't vote for him. If he is the Republican candidate in the general election I may have to get drunk before I vote against beto. His whole campaign is bad mouthing Gov. Abbott and saying flat out lies. He loves to put out campaign slogans like "end property tax" and "deport illegals" with no explanation on how he is going to carry this out. (neither of which a governor can do). He either doesn't understand the responsibilities and powers of the governor or he thinks we are too stupid to know the governor cannot end property tax (legislature) or deport illegals (federal responsibility, I know they are not doing it) etc... He held office before in the state legislature yet I have never heard of him so he must not have made much of an impact. My big question is where is he getting his funding. An unknown out of nowhere all the sudden running for governor and has the money to flood facebook, tv and radio with adds as well as having billboards everywhere. I see a snake oil salesman with lots of attacks and promises and no details or answers when questioned. JMHO

That's what I was hearing on the early adds, promises he can't keep and bragging about things he had no authority to do.

[Traildust]

That's what I was hearing on the early adds, promises he can't keep and bragging about things he had no authority to do.

He's got to be related to Rick Perry! Perry did the same **** every election

[hpdrifter]

He may be solid ... But I can't get past his used car salesman/greasy politician/ambulance chasing lawyer look. Following along to see what y'all say

bold---my addition/choice

[Neck]

Good ole Abbott....

• Abbott closed Texas during Covid. Some may say, “Well, nobody knew what to do; he did the best he could.” Hmmm… maybe. But is that a good gauge for the governor of the state that is supposed to lead this nation? “The best he could”? Not all states shut down, but Texas did. Many states opened up much sooner than Texas did. For months Abbott based all his decisions on number of cases (which is meaningless) instead of number of hospitalizations. It seems all Abbott can do is copy what the Governor of Florida does first. And remember, Abbott is the one who threw Shelley Luther in jail where she was stripped and cavity searched 3 times in order to “make an example of her” — all because she dared to open her hair salon so her stylists could pay their mortgages and feed their kids. This is ok with Greg Abbott. Mom and Pop shops were shuttered, but big business was allowed to remain open. Abortion clinics were deemed “essential”, but you couldn’t visit anyone in a nursing home or bury the dead. He was hand-picking winners and losers, and it destroyed livelihoods unnecessarily.

• Abbott closed churches. Yes, on the holiest day of the year, Easter Sunday, Abbott demanded that Christians not gather. As a former Attorney General, Abbott knew that was unconstitutional. He did it anyway, and it went well beyond Easter Sunday.

• Abbott still has not addressed mask mandates and vaccine mandates in Texas. He declared a worthless mandate that has been ignored statewide. Though the GOP has asked for a special session to resolve these issues, Abbott has refused.

• Here’s a good question: Why did Abbott allow the Pharmacy Board in Texas to restrict the filling of HCQ and Ivermectin to treat Covid?

• Abbott has appointed “woke” leaders to college boards, family services, housing boards, etc, etc. He’s also filled multiple judicial seats with big donors all from the same firm.

• In spite of the fact that the GOP put huge pressure on Abbott to end the gender modification of minors (which includes using drugs and surgery to permanently change children as young as 2 years old into the opposite sex, causing them to never be able to reproduce), Abbott failed to act. His answer? He asked for a statement from CPS on whether it would be considered child abuse. He doesn’t know? He has to ask? Come on. Even after they said yes, he still did nothing. During the 3rd special session, Abbott put dog tethering on the agenda, but NOT gender modification of children. Dogs now have legislated protection, but children don’t.

• Critical Race Theory has been all over the news. Citizens are livid that school children are being taught to hate themselves and our country. In fact, nothing has rallied voters into action like this issue, and the Texas legislature knew they had to address it. Unfortunately, as politicians do, they passed a bill that was weak and ineffective. Imagine that. So, voters turned to Abbott for help, and you know what he did? He wrote a letter. A letter. What??? Abbott did put it on the agenda in the 2nd special session, but he did nothing to make anything happen with it, and so nothing did. More failed leadership at the expense of our children and our nation’s future.

• Abbott failed to address the Texas Border Crisis. Did you know that Abbott has been in an elected position with the power to fix the Texas border for 20 years? In 2002 he was elected as Atty Gen. He stayed in that office for TWELVE YEARS and did nothing. In 2014 he became Governor and in EIGHT YEARS has done nothing. Yes, he’s talked a lot about it and given sound bites that make it seem like he’s done something, but in reality, the border is more porous than ever. 250 THOUSAND illegals enter Texas every month! We even have Texas Guard at the border not getting paid! Sadly, Abbott places blame on everyone but himself and is not courageous enough to take real action. Oh, he did put up a little bit of fence… chain-link fence, that is… funded by donations from folks like you and me (as if we don’t already pay enough in taxes)… and placed on the private property of his donors. His “Lone Star Plan” has been a complete failure. It is time voters start looking at results, not rhetoric.

• Election integrity did get passed in the 2nd special session — er, sort of. If you can call a bill that reduced penalties for election fraud an “election integrity” bill, well, that’s what Abbott signed into law. After grassroots called out this incredibly foolish move (was it intentional or does he not know what he’s signing???), he called a 3rd special session to fix it (cha-ching!). Guess what happened next… The Speaker of the House refused to hear the bill! Wow! What kind of leadership does Abbott have? As Governor of Texas he bowed to the Speaker and loosened the election law when the people were demanding a stronger one.

• Let’s talk jobs. Abbott claims to have reduced unemployment and created umpteen million jobs. Is that true? Not really. If you consider that Abbott put millions of Texans out of work overnight and shut down small businesses, and then brought in corporations from blue states at huge tax breaks, you’ll realize that Abbott’s plan for the Texas job market isn’t a good one.

• Abbott has been so bad, multiple county GOPs have had to censure him. County GOP decisions are made by a wide variety of factions within the party — and yet when they vote, they all agree Abbott needs to be publicly reprimanded.

• Abbott failed to address the electric grid, even after Texans died during Snowmageddon due to power outages. Abbott isn’t responsible for the weather, but he has known for years that the grid was insufficient, and he chose to ignore it. Did you know we were 3-1/2 minutes away from a complete shutdown of the Texas power grid? It would have taken months to recover! The grid has been so poorly managed under Abbott that people froze to death in their own homes. Abbott wouldn’t address it then, and he hasn’t addressed it even now. The deaths of Texans are at his feet. Even efforts they did make don’t go into effect until 2024.

• When Abbott first ran for Governor, he launched his campaign priorities at True Texas Project. With a Gadsden flag in hand, he proudly claimed he would end taxpayer-funded lobbying. That’s right. Your taxes pay for the cities, schools, hospitals and counties to hire lobbyists to fight for MORE of your money in taxes. Can you believe it? It’s horrific. Abbott claimed he would end it, but his lack of leadership failed to make it happen. In fact, the House made a complete joke out of Abbott over it, and Abbott let them. The Senate passed the bill, and so the House assigned it to Chris Paddie. Paddie not only scheduled it for a day when the session was already over, but he chose the day to be the birthday of the author of the bill as a slap in the face. If that issue was important to Abbott, he would have fought for it, and not let Chris Paddie make a mockery of it.

https://truetexasproject.com/anyone-but/

[muzzlebrake]

TTP seems to be a cloaking organization bent on taking down any incumbent republican. I suspect they are not who they claim to be although they/she claims to be from the Tea Party movement.
Abbott is not the only person they have gone after. They also go after smaller fish down to county and city levels. I would not take everything they print or say as gospel. You will notice they never go after any democrat. One must ask why.

[Neck]

They are the Tarrant County Tea Party that formed back in 2008 or 2009. They are legit. Both local and national candidates covet their endorsement. I've got family that are members since 2010 and regularly attend meetings and volunteer.

What Others Are Saying...

“One of the most active groups in Texas” ~ New York Times, August 2019

“succeeded in ways that most conservative grassroots groups…can only dream about.” ~ Texas Tribune, August 2015

“a statewide political force…considered a gatekeeper to reaching primary voters” ~ Ft Worth Star-Telegram, January 2016

“The most successful and visible group in Texas” ~ Rice University political science professor Mark P. Jones, January 2016

“grassroots warriors are some of the fiercest in the state.” ~ Texas Observer, August 2015

“responsible for recruiting and electing a faction of the most conservative politicians in the state…one of the state’s most influential…groups.” ~ San Antonio Express News, August 2019

“regarded as one of the most active grassroots… organizations in Texas…has become a reckoning force in political races.” ~ The Fort Worth Business Press, Feb 2016

“True Texas Project is important to me because it gives me a place to connect with other local patriots and organize, strategize, and inform each other on the tricks and treachery of our current elected officials.” ~ Mitchell R, Grapevine

“This group has a leadership that is on fire to defend our constitution and stand for our God given rights! This group will lead Texas!” ~ Maggie W, Burleson

“The True Texas Project allows the citizen of Texas to understand the history and values of our great state.” ~ Ward W, Dallas

“True Texas Project means returning to our Texas roots of bravely defending our liberties and protecting our rights.” ~ Julie A, Bedford

“With True Texas Project we can more effectively protect our conservative state by uniting our voices into one.” ~ Laura O, Grapevine

“Texas is synonymous with freedom. True Texas is our never dying Project to ensure that freedom lives today as well as in our rich history!” ~ Jamie J, Grapevine

[Neck]

Here is their recommendations for the county you are in (Tarrant) if you want to take a look and compare to how you are thinking about voting in the primaries.

https://truetexasproject.com/tarrant-county-recommendations/

[muzzlebrake]

Here is their recommendations for the county you are in (Tarrant) if you want to take a look and compare to how you are thinking about voting in the primaries.

https://truetexasproject.com/tarrant...commendations/

Trust but verify is all I can say

[ThisLadyHunts]

I dont blame you for being ******. But I understand why he did it. I dont care for how it got handled coming out of the lockdowns, but politically I get it. I'd still vote for abbott. Ultimately govs heading the state, and had to make some decisions in what was becoming a Charlie foxtrot at the fed level.

If you ever watch the show Jericho, theres a tale a bit like this. The guy in charge does his best to represent his values but be fair. Little bits of people over time get ****** over this and that cause its them, not the big picture. When they throw him out they are on a slow decline of running down the tubes. I don't see any great alternatives to Abbott, they all seem like even WORSE politician lifers.

Very well said.

[LWC]

Good ole Abbott....

• Abbott closed Texas during Covid. Some may say, “Well, nobody knew what to do; he did the best he could.” Hmmm… maybe. But is that a good gauge for the governor of the state that is supposed to lead this nation? “The best he could”? Not all states shut down, but Texas did. Many states opened up much sooner than Texas did. For months Abbott based all his decisions on number of cases (which is meaningless) instead of number of hospitalizations. It seems all Abbott can do is copy what the Governor of Florida does first. And remember, Abbott is the one who threw Shelley Luther in jail where she was stripped and cavity searched 3 times in order to “make an example of her” — all because she dared to open her hair salon so her stylists could pay their mortgages and feed their kids. This is ok with Greg Abbott. Mom and Pop shops were shuttered, but big business was allowed to remain open. Abortion clinics were deemed “essential”, but you couldn’t visit anyone in a nursing home or bury the dead. He was hand-picking winners and losers, and it destroyed livelihoods unnecessarily.

• Abbott closed churches. Yes, on the holiest day of the year, Easter Sunday, Abbott demanded that Christians not gather. As a former Attorney General, Abbott knew that was unconstitutional. He did it anyway, and it went well beyond Easter Sunday.

• Abbott still has not addressed mask mandates and vaccine mandates in Texas. He declared a worthless mandate that has been ignored statewide. Though the GOP has asked for a special session to resolve these issues, Abbott has refused.

• Here’s a good question: Why did Abbott allow the Pharmacy Board in Texas to restrict the filling of HCQ and Ivermectin to treat Covid?

• Abbott has appointed “woke” leaders to college boards, family services, housing boards, etc, etc. He’s also filled multiple judicial seats with big donors all from the same firm.

• In spite of the fact that the GOP put huge pressure on Abbott to end the gender modification of minors (which includes using drugs and surgery to permanently change children as young as 2 years old into the opposite sex, causing them to never be able to reproduce), Abbott failed to act. His answer? He asked for a statement from CPS on whether it would be considered child abuse. He doesn’t know? He has to ask? Come on. Even after they said yes, he still did nothing. During the 3rd special session, Abbott put dog tethering on the agenda, but NOT gender modification of children. Dogs now have legislated protection, but children don’t.

• Critical Race Theory has been all over the news. Citizens are livid that school children are being taught to hate themselves and our country. In fact, nothing has rallied voters into action like this issue, and the Texas legislature knew they had to address it. Unfortunately, as politicians do, they passed a bill that was weak and ineffective. Imagine that. So, voters turned to Abbott for help, and you know what he did? He wrote a letter. A letter. What??? Abbott did put it on the agenda in the 2nd special session, but he did nothing to make anything happen with it, and so nothing did. More failed leadership at the expense of our children and our nation’s future.

• Abbott failed to address the Texas Border Crisis. Did you know that Abbott has been in an elected position with the power to fix the Texas border for 20 years? In 2002 he was elected as Atty Gen. He stayed in that office for TWELVE YEARS and did nothing. In 2014 he became Governor and in EIGHT YEARS has done nothing. Yes, he’s talked a lot about it and given sound bites that make it seem like he’s done something, but in reality, the border is more porous than ever. 250 THOUSAND illegals enter Texas every month! We even have Texas Guard at the border not getting paid! Sadly, Abbott places blame on everyone but himself and is not courageous enough to take real action. Oh, he did put up a little bit of fence… chain-link fence, that is… funded by donations from folks like you and me (as if we don’t already pay enough in taxes)… and placed on the private property of his donors. His “Lone Star Plan” has been a complete failure. It is time voters start looking at results, not rhetoric.

• Election integrity did get passed in the 2nd special session — er, sort of. If you can call a bill that reduced penalties for election fraud an “election integrity” bill, well, that’s what Abbott signed into law. After grassroots called out this incredibly foolish move (was it intentional or does he not know what he’s signing???), he called a 3rd special session to fix it (cha-ching!). Guess what happened next… The Speaker of the House refused to hear the bill! Wow! What kind of leadership does Abbott have? As Governor of Texas he bowed to the Speaker and loosened the election law when the people were demanding a stronger one.

• Let’s talk jobs. Abbott claims to have reduced unemployment and created umpteen million jobs. Is that true? Not really. If you consider that Abbott put millions of Texans out of work overnight and shut down small businesses, and then brought in corporations from blue states at huge tax breaks, you’ll realize that Abbott’s plan for the Texas job market isn’t a good one.

• Abbott has been so bad, multiple county GOPs have had to censure him. County GOP decisions are made by a wide variety of factions within the party — and yet when they vote, they all agree Abbott needs to be publicly reprimanded.

• Abbott failed to address the electric grid, even after Texans died during Snowmageddon due to power outages. Abbott isn’t responsible for the weather, but he has known for years that the grid was insufficient, and he chose to ignore it. Did you know we were 3-1/2 minutes away from a complete shutdown of the Texas power grid? It would have taken months to recover! The grid has been so poorly managed under Abbott that people froze to death in their own homes. Abbott wouldn’t address it then, and he hasn’t addressed it even now. The deaths of Texans are at his feet. Even efforts they did make don’t go into effect until 2024.

• When Abbott first ran for Governor, he launched his campaign priorities at True Texas Project. With a Gadsden flag in hand, he proudly claimed he would end taxpayer-funded lobbying. That’s right. Your taxes pay for the cities, schools, hospitals and counties to hire lobbyists to fight for MORE of your money in taxes. Can you believe it? It’s horrific. Abbott claimed he would end it, but his lack of leadership failed to make it happen. In fact, the House made a complete joke out of Abbott over it, and Abbott let them. The Senate passed the bill, and so the House assigned it to Chris Paddie. Paddie not only scheduled it for a day when the session was already over, but he chose the day to be the birthday of the author of the bill as a slap in the face. If that issue was important to Abbott, he would have fought for it, and not let Chris Paddie make a mockery of it.

https://truetexasproject.com/anyone-but/

Abbott has shown his true colors while under pressure. We should be able to do better.

[Artos]

I'm done voting for incumbents in the primaries who have been in office more than 2 terms...serving the public should not be a lifetime career & how we got to situation we are in now.

Our founding fathers major mistake was not putting term limits on every level of govt public office.

[Duckologist]

Our founding fathers major mistake was not putting term limits on every level of govt public office.

But they did. Its called the voting booth. They figured we wouldn't be dumb enough to install the same slimey politicians for years upon years.

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[Artos]

You mean all the 81mm votes poopie pants received?? I can tell you the voter fraud in the valley on local races in beyond asinine.

They didn't account for election theft...term limits fixes a lot of the problems.