Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American attorney who has served as the 48th governor of Texas since January 20, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Abbott previously served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015. He is the third governor of any U.S. state to permanently use a wheelchair. He is also the first disabled governor in Texas history.
Protecting the children
Once again, Texas Republicans are trying to scapegoat the LGBTQ community with made-up trash to deflect from their own failures It has become obvious over the last, oh, six years or so that Texas Republicans have become masters of misdirection.
Let’s look at the Texas GOP track record, shall we: In 2016, when he got called out for accepting a $35,000 donation from Donald Trump AFTER dropping a fraud investigation into Trump University, Gov.
Greg Abbott deflected attention away from that by attacking trans women and ranting about men in the women’s restrooms. At the end of 2020, when news broke that Attorney General Ken Paxton’s own most trusted aides had reported him to the Department of Justice for abusing the power of his office, Paxton used state of Texas resources to file a lawsuit directly with the U.S.
Supreme Court, trying to overturn lawful elections in other states and steal the presidential election for Trump. Then last year, in 2021, when Abbott found himself under fire after the Texas power grid failed during the worst winter storm in decades, killing nearly 6,500 Texans, he led the charge against “voter fraud” and forced changes to state law to make it harder for (non-rich-white-Republican) Texans to vote.
