The Republican Criminal Syndicate Fails, Again

 You might have heard recently that there's been a deadly environmental disaster in the Texas Hill Country.  You might also have heard the RCS (Republican criminal syndicate) deny Climate Change...  Well 7 days after the first, “100 year,” flood (less than 20 years after a previous deadly flood, Blanco River in 2015, in Hill Country) we're having a second, “100 year flooding event,” in the Texas Hill Country.   

During a press conference, about the flooding in Kerr county on the weekend of July 4th 2025, the governor of Texas deflected a question about disaster preparedness with an ignorant football reference. It demonstrated the vacant attitude with which the RCS, in Texas, has approached state services.  The RCS dominated state government in Texas has failed, many times, to provide the kind of assistance that could have saved lives, including in the Guadalupe River area known as “flash-flood alley.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/greg-abbott-bizarre-postflood-football-analogy/  

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2025-07-09/a-decade-of-missed-opportunities-texas-couldnt-find-1m-for-flood-warning-system-near-camps  

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/  

The RCS dominated state government in Texas has consistently withheld the kind of spending needed to provide proper services for the state's large population.  The state legislature has created, “budget surpluses,” by not using the money we, Texans, pay in taxes.

The Texas government has instead created the slush fund known as, “the Rainy Day Fund...”

https://texastaxpayers.com/what-is-the-texas-rainy-day-fund/  

Texas has a very regressive state taxing system: those who can afford it least, pay the largest percentage of their income in taxes.  The Texas legislature could, and has often talked about, giving relief to said heavily burdened tax payers, but has never done it.

Texas' RCS government has failed, repeatedly, to protect the citizens of Texas, and many of the visitors to Texas, from incidents of floods, freezes, shootings, etc...   Too many people continue to be needlessly injured and killed.

It is well past time, for far too many folks who've been injured or killed, for the voters of Texas to elect a government that tries it's best to serve everyone in Texas...  

I've been a Democratic, candidate for the Texas legislature, multiple times, so I'm not an objective observer. However, voting in your own best interest is to vote for Democrats.  Give (y)ourselves a chance.