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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas GOP convention will happen in person -- but Republican leaders will speak via video
Abbott and company are cowards
Link to tweet
The Republican Party of Texas is moving forward with its controversial in-person convention during the coronavirus pandemic but elected officials including Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will be giving their scheduled speeches virtually.
All the elected officials are switching from a live, in-person speech to videos, Kyle Whatley, the partys executive director, said during a town hall livestreamed Tuesday night. Theyre doing that for us in order to focus all the attention on the business of the meeting and to get everybody in and out of here as quickly and as safely as possible.
Texas Republican officials typically headline their partys biennial state convention, which this year is scheduled for July 16 to 18 at Houstons George R. Brown Convention Center. Roughly 6,000 people are expected to attend the event. Attendees will be required to wear masks during most of the gathering, according to party Chair James Dickey, after Abbott issued a statewide mask mandate last week.
Still, as the state has seen a surge in coronavirus cases, calls have been growing for the party to cancel its event. The State Republican Executive Committee, a 64-member body that serves as the party's governing board, met last week to consider moving the convention online, but it approved a resolution supporting an in-person gathering in a 40-20 vote.
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Texas GOP convention will happen in person -- but Republican leaders will speak via video (Original Post)
Gothmog
Jul 2020
OP
Surely Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will be in person to sacrifice for the good of the Party?
Dustlawyer
Jul 2020
#5
I would hope that by now he is vigorously fasting so as not to waste groceries
Submariner
Jul 2020
#6
AkFemDem
(1,826 posts)1. Ah I see
Just going to kill off their voters, not their candidates. That ought to work out well for them.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. Amazing, isn't it.
ace3csusm
(969 posts)2. maybe the want to thin the herd
Maybe they are sick of their own supporter and want to press the reset button...Lets see how many show up
hibbing
(10,098 posts)4. Will reality ever return? n/t
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)5. Surely Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will be in person to sacrifice for the good of the Party?
Submariner
(12,504 posts)6. I would hope that by now he is vigorously fasting so as not to waste groceries
and clean water sustaining such a useless body, all the while dragging down the trump economy. Die Dan Die!
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)7. The important people show themselves in hiding.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)8. Chickenshits. ...nt
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)9. Cancelled
Link to tweet
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SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)10. Not anymore it won't. Houston canceled it outright.
Womp womp
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)11. The Wisconsin GOP is holding an in person state convention