TX Gov. Greg Abbott Caves to Conspiracy Groups by Vetoing Bipartisan Mental Health Bill

By Allen Clifton


When current Republican presidential candidate and former Texas governor Rick Perry announced he wouldn’t run for re-election in 2014, many Democrats in the state (and around the country for that matter) rejoiced in the news.

I was not one of those people.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Rick Perry – not even close. I think he’s a complete idiot and he was an absolute embarrassment to the state of Texas for many years. But as bad as he was, I knew his replacement was going to be far worse. It was known for quite some time that current Governor Greg Abbott was likely going to be Perry’s successor – and Abbott is a whole different bag of crazy.

It was Abbott who gave legitimacy to asinine conspiracy theorists when he ordered the Texas Guard to monitor the military during a training exercise most commonly known as “Jade Helm” that’s currently taking place across the southwestern United States. It’s still unconscionable for me to sit here and think that the Governor of Texas pandered to people who honestly believe this training exercise was really a plot by the Obama administration to invade Texas, declare martial law and confiscate guns.

And now it seems he’s caved to the Church of Scientology and several radical conspiracy groups when he vetoed a bipartisan mental health bill that would have given doctors the ability to detain mentally ill patients for up to four hours who pose a danger to themselves and others.

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/tx-gov-greg-abbott-caves-conspiracy-groups-vetoing-bipartisan-mental-health-bill/