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.
The State of Texas has just been busted for deleting the existence of LGBTQ people from its official website.The New York Times reports that the state scrubbed a resources page for LGBTQ youth from its site after one of Gov.
Greg Abbott’s Republican primary challengers called it “offensive” and not in line with good ol’ fashioned “Texas values.”Candidate Don Huffines voiced his outrage over the page in a homophobic video posted to Twitter on August 31.“They are promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth!” he raged. “I mean, really?!