Hush!
Texas Governor Greg Abbott should be required to hang a For Sale sign around his neck.
Here’s what happened. Lubbock is a town in west Texas best known as the home of Texas Tech University and the birthplace of Buddy Holly. They haven’t done much you could call distinguished since then. Some big wig out in Lubbock by the name of George McMahon decided he’d attend a fancy fundraiser for Abbott and was so damn proud of it that he gave the teevee station an interview.
In the interview he burped up a state secret right there in front of God and Aunt Meryl.
He said – outloud, mind you – that he was going to give Greg Abbott $10,000 because …
“You make a large donation to the governor, and in turn you are eligible for appointment to the Board of Regents,” he told the ABC affiliate station, KAMC, referring to the Texas Tech University board.
That a secret in Texas unknown by people who cannot do math and think an abundance of coincidences is pretty much normal. Which means Republicans.
The Governor’s office was indignant.
“What this individual suggested is not only false, but also illegal,” said Ciara Matthews, a spokeswoman for Abbott, in a prepared statement. “Because of the unfortunate comments, the donation was returned. This is not how the Governor does business.”
Hell yeah, it’s illegal and that’s exactly how the Governor does business. Every board member at Texas Tech has donated to Abbott’s campaign, sweetening his campaign war chest by $1 million. And, of course, they are all male.
Remember George McMahon, the guy who openly tried to buy a Board of Regents position for $10,000?
“It’s not a bad thing,” McMahan said in an interview with the Chronicle. “It’s common knowledge that that’s the way it works.”
Abbott returned McMahan’s check and de-invited him to the fundraiser.
Probably because $10,000 wasn’t near enough.
Thanks to Beverly for the heads up.
Money talks…
1Greggo, we’ve established what are. Now we’re just haggling over the price.
2First rule of Fight Club: You don’t talk about Fight Club.
3“This is not how the Governor does business.”
We now know the Governor’s business practices also include a money back guarantee. If you don’t get your seat at the Board of Regents, you get your $10,000 back.
Should you be unable go on local TV and talk about his generous donor service policies, make sure you keep your receipt when asking about a refund.
4I assume that if you give $1million, you get to rename the whole university after yourself. How much for the state?
5More worried about personal exposure because wasn’t this exactly the issue the thuglican doj used to railroad Don Siegelman in alabama?
6There are two qualifications for critters seeking a spot on the Board of Regents:
1) A big donation to the Governor
2) The brains not to tell reporters about qualification 1.
He flunked #2, and probably came up short on #1
7Texas Republicans could be compared to those “ladies of negotiable virtue” who stroll on Bissonnet St. ; but that would be disrespectful and degrading to Crack Whores.
8Sad to say, but it looks like things haven’t changed that much in Texas since the days when Ma and Pa Ferguson took turns being governor.
9Not just a Texas thang. Betsy (Cruella) Deville bought herself a nice cabinet position so she could destroy the American education system.
10Linda, now that you mention it, one of DeVos’s yachts – yea, ONE of them – was let loose recently and it drifted into the hard edge of a dock while all aboard were asleep. Devon is from Michigan and from that loose yacht story we learned that there is more than one DeVos yacht. There are enough of them for one for each Great Lake. She’s doing as good a job at the helm of the Ed Dept as the crew on her yacht did that night by failing to post a sentry. PS – is there anyone at the beauty salon who knows if any of our Ed Secretaries ever taught school, as in public school?
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