If Dumb Was Dirt, Greg Abbott Would Cover About an Acre
Before he was Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott was Texas attorney general and spent $4.25 of taxpayer’s money suing the federal government, or as he liked to call it – “suing Barack Obama.” Abbott knew that most of these suits were silly, but he liked to rack up numbers so that every week he could feed the hungry hordes in Texas who wanted him to sue Barack Obama.
That $4.25 million does not count the money the federal government had to spend to defend us against Abbott’s goofy and frivolous lawsuits. So, just to be fair about it, let’s say it cost us $8.5 million dollars total.
Every now and then, I feel compelled to remind politicians that it’s ALL our money, whether it be city, state, school district, MUD district or federal government. So when the county sues the state, we pay on both ends.
Anyway, as attorney general Abbott had Texas sue the federal government 31 times. Here’s the scorecard with Greg Abbott as team manager …
Based on court rulings, Texas has definitively won five of those cases. In 10 cases, the courts ruled against the state. Nine cases are still pending, and the AG’s office withdrew the remaining seven.
Let’s see, 31 minus 9 (still pending) is 22. Of those 22, Abbott won 5. That’s hitting around 23%. Let me ask you this. Would you hire a lawyer who costs a ton of money proudly advertises that he wins a whopping 23% of his cases? Or a heart surgeon who has 77% of his patients die?
Greg Abbott: a bad lawyer and an even worse governor. We’re Texas Proud!
Thanks to David for the heads up.
Abbott, an idiot is search of his Costello Who’s on first?
1I can only imagine if Abbott was the coach of one of y’all’s high school football teams and that was his winning record. Probably
2have his house burned down. Yet, there he sits as your Governor.
Sleazy to the max, but I don’t see dumb. After all, he’s spending other people’s money in order to benefit himself politically with his base. It seems to work.
Note that I’m no ruling out dumb overall for Abbott. Just not seeing it here.
3Here in what has to be Politics Central this guy is seen as a worthless no talent showboater. No real genuine professional career politician in this locality wants anything to do with him, even the ones marked R. They are simply not in when he calls. In all fairness, the same attitude extends to the Cruz-er. He’s not fooling anybody except his base. And when yer own Senate Majority Leader gets on yer case, you should have enough brain glop to realize you have absolutely no immunity. But like I said, . . .
4As long as there are enough Texas voters dumb as dirt to put him in office where he can waste even more of their and our money, why should he care?
5@ LynnN….
The dumb is in the people who vote for this “showboat”.
@Rhea….. he doesn’t.
6Wasn’t A-Butt’s fault that the facts were all stacked against him. You’d almost believe a tree limb fell on his head,wouldn’t you?
7I think it is more of an indicator that people don’t understand your last point. I don’t give a hoot who is reaching into my wallet when they take money out. It all counts the same to me anyway if it no longer belongs to me. So, whether you “waste” it on the welfare state or on “sticking it to the man,” you are still spending it regardless. Me, I’d much rather have something to show for it.
8e platypus, a tree fell on my head about eight years ago and I got 60 stitches. At no point was I as nasty and venal as Abbott, so that’s no excuse.
9Rhea-you didn’t sue for millions and now won’t let anyone else on the gravy train,like A-Butt?
10What five were won? Are they on appeal?
11e platypus, no, I was blown off by that condo’s insurance, so I didn’t get fifty cents. Granted, I’m not in a wheelchair either. But if I had, I wouldn’t slam the door on the chances of everyone who came after me because I’m not a greedy, selfish SOB like some people I won’t name but whose initials are GA.
12Remember when TX was a decent place to live?
13Let’s start keeping track of these lawsuits. Our twice elected President has about two years left in office. How many more times will A-butt sue the feds while Obama is still in office?
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