🧵1/ Today, Tarrant County voters won a major victory. The Court’s vote to adopt the full list of early voting locations is a testament to the hundreds of concerned citizens – including many college students – who raised their voices and made themselves heard this week. 2/ I want to thank Commissioners Brooks, Fickes, Simmons and Ramirez for their principled and bipartisan action today.

🧵1/ Have a few thoughts on the latest @GregAbbott_TX immigration stunt.

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From Dallas News - Gov. Greg Abbott orders hospitals to report treatment costs for undocumented migrants

dallasnews.com/news/immigrati…
2/ Abbott has been governor for nearly a decade. I can’t recall a time when he has showed much interest in health care broadly, or health care costs, specifically.

#txlege

We all want businesses reopened as soon as possible, but we have to follow doctors' orders for it to be safe to do so. That starts with better testing.

THREAD on testing - what Gov. Abbott has said, what the data shows, and what his and other experts recommend (1/28)

#txlege ...@Senfronia4Texas, the TX House Chair of Public Health, made it clear:

"We have not even been able to scratch the surface of testing. We're all ready to get out of our houses and go back to work. But we don't even know what's out there"

expressnews.com/politics/texas…

#txlege (2/28)

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Received calls today complaining of Republican operatives staked outside @TxDPS Driver License offices — Hurst and Fort Worth — talking to citizens about abortion and trying to register voters. So, I went to see for myself. Sure enough. This is FW megacenter. All four of these folks are with Engage TEXAS.

Not familiar? No reason you would be. They are a brand new GOP Super PAC, aimed at trying to save the TX GOP from demise. They’re starting out with a modest $10M: texastribune.org/2019/07/31/eng…

Several things to say about this:

Just because Republicans are too afraid of @NRA and Tea Party to even discuss modest gun safety measures, they shouldn’t get away with exclusively scapegoating people with mental health challenges.

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#txlege

https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1157801199225188352

If we want to identify “large contributors,” let’s start with the demonization of immigrants that has been so in vogue in Trump’s GOP.

@realDonaldTrump dangerous, racist rhetoric is part of the problem.

So are unnecessary, fear-based laws such as #txlege #SB4.

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