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TexasTowelie

(112,133 posts)
Tue Jun 13, 2017, 07:30 AM Jun 2017

So governor, you don't like Austin? Leave!

Gov. Greg Abbott needs to get the heck out of Austin.

See, the governor doesn’t like our city. It’s too liberal for him and doesn’t fit the Texas conservative mold, he said so while speaking at a dinner put on by the Bell County Republican Party.

“As you leave Austin and start heading north, you start feeling different,” he said. “Once you cross the Travis County line, it starts smelling different. And you know what that fragrance is? Freedom. It’s the smell of freedom that does not exist in Austin.”

In 1999, I drove 13,000 miles all over the state of Texas researching a book called “Texas Curiosities,” the goal being to find unusual and amusing spots around the state. In my travels, I discovered that Texas is a land of diversity; no two Texas cities are alike. San Antonio is a military town, Dallas is big on marketing, and Houston is an oil city where people move to make money.

That being the case, why isn’t it OK for our great state to have one city left that’s still leaning to the left? Why is that a crime?

Read more: http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/kelso-governor-you-don-like-austin-leave/lBnyGqJt4pK28BsNeejrdM/

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So governor, you don't like Austin? Leave! (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2017 OP
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