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Abbott was hit by a tree branch while jogging after a storm. He then sued the owner of the property the tree was on. 20 years later when he was the attorney general he pushed for changes to the law preventing anything from filing a similar lawsuit.
Because of the lawsuit he is paid over $19,000 a month.
Source: "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has received $7.8 million from suit over accident that disabled him" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2013/08/03/greg-abbott-has-received-6-million-from-suit-over-accident-that-disabled-him/?outputType=amp
marble falls
(57,079 posts)Ocelot II
(115,681 posts)Perry probably got something dropped on his head at some point, but I don't know if he sued for it.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)as this is about Greg Abbott and not Rick Perry.
Although they are both cut from the same cloth.
Champp
(2,114 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)walkingman
(7,605 posts)language of shitkickers and religious nuts.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)
whose lives have been made harder by physical challenges toward others facing similar challenges.
How naive of me.
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BumRushDaShow
(128,898 posts)maxsolomon
(33,321 posts)Nearly 8 million? He got rich, basically.
My sister has a 100 acres in Greg Pence's district; she won't even go into her woods on a windy day now. The Emerald Ash Borers killed every ash and they all regularly throw down dead limbs.
dsc
(52,160 posts)UTUSN
(70,684 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 10, 2021, 04:48 PM - Edit history (1)
a half-Hispanic."
You'd be surprised that among some Hispanics, he and Jeb Crow Shrub gain points for marrying an Hispanic. Worse, one had Laura BUSH pegged as Hispanic for the "Laura" name. When told it was the other Shrub, he couldn't believe it because "Laura" is the same in Spanish.
ABBUTT's wife, during the past campaign was ballyhooed as going to be "the first Hispanic first lady." Well, half. She barely was seen. They extensively used her full (Mexican-American?) elderly mother in Spanish language campaign ads, and after the election she/first-lady has seldom been heard from again. Btw, where was she when he got scalded in the shower, and what exactly happened? Wingnuts who demand "transparency" from any Dem's sneeze have never asked what happened to ABBUTT.
*****Cross post:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215939264
ABBUTT has been nothing if not a rabble rouser, demagogue, Red meat to Red aholes on every issue - whether pandering to Drumpf, being derelict in attending to actual needs like the utilities grid, targeting women's rights/Choice and the needs of the most vulnerable (refusing Medicaid funds), and the ever present feeding from Fatcats.
So he's held constant events with and without the Faux Propaganda Network, supposedly with (only wingnut) Border sheriffs to ballyhoo usurping Federal roles and his stooges LT governor Dan PATRICK and "attorney general" (charged in court) Ken PAXTON filing constant lawsuits against the Federal government.
And this "vice president of the Border Patrol union" Chris CABRERA is a constant wingnut media hound on Faux and everywhere. Isn't there a Chain of Command within the Federal government about not undermining agency mission and regulations? Hatch Act, anything? Is he on work time when he's yammering at all hours of the day? Yet he enjoys cushy pay and benefits with plush pension and benefits to come.
Will stand corrected if my math is wrong, so only eleven (11) outsiders are left, "fewer than a tenth of the total," for what used to be the grand armada of about a hundred? that ABBUTT hullabalooed about. Sort of like having a Second Amendment gun to fight the nuclear enemy.
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https://news.yahoo.com/border-left-wide-open-red-110000071.html
. Cabrera is the vice president of the Border Patrol unions Rio Grande Valley chapter. On a 12-mile drive along roads that agents use to access the overgrown land along the Rio Grande, Cabrera points out a total of 11 spots where National Guard soldiers had been posted all summer.
But four months since Abbotts call for assistance, nearly all have quietly returned home, according to data provided by the Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Texas Military Department. The 48 soldiers from South Dakota were called back. Among the state police, all 14 in Ohio, 26 in Nebraska, 28 in Iowa, and 69 from Florida have been pulled from the line, unable to endlessly work out of state.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said on Wednesday that the state could not continue with the costs, while other governors have said their states need law enforcement back in their communities.
As of Friday, just 11 soldiers from outside Texas are the only out-of-state military or law enforcement help Texas has on the border, fewer than a tenth of the personnel who were there this summer. .
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LeftInTX
(25,278 posts)But who knows....
Will Cecilia make an ad, "I come from family of hard working immigrants...."?