Uh Oh, Look Who Else Fled …
My county has three state representatives because we’re gerrymandered to East Paris France and back. Our newly elected state representative, Republican Gary Gates, fled the state when the going got tough.
Gates went to Orlando, so at least he was unlike Cruz who crossed the Mexican border in search of a better life.
However, like Cruz, Gates has conflicting stories about why he left.
Gates acknowledged the frustration of his critics, but stated that the decision to leave Texas was based on the needs of his family. His pipes burst, he said, and 30 percent of his home was flooded, leaving his sick wife and special needs daughter at risk.
“My wife is still recovering from an illness she has been battling for two weeks, and the room of my adult daughter, who is mentally handicapped and still lives with us, flooded,” Gates said.
He said that things started to mold. Yeah, oddly science works everywhere, not just Gates’ house. So everybody else in the whole damn state – sick or well – was battling science. However, he left on Wednesday, the day after the first hard freeze so he must have some dandy super mold or something.
Then come to find out, he was meeting with vendors in Florida about his apartment buildings in Houston. Yeah, he’s a multi-millionaire landlord of apartment complexes so business meetings always come first.
“Since arriving in Florida, I have had functioning internet and reliable mobile coverage,” he said. “I have been able to monitor the power restoration process, correspond with constituents and direct the recovery efforts at our apartment complexes.”
And you weren’t cold, or, one to think of it, actually helping anybody. Most importantly, he’s talking about the apartment complexes where he evicted 100 families last September in the middle of the Covid crisis, so I imagine they’d just as soon he leave the state.
I’m so glad we got rid of John Culberson in 2018 and got Lizzie Fletcher. She’s made sure to send emails with helpful information. I’m sure when Biden gets here, we’ll see her with him and other Dem. office holders to show the GOP how it’s done!
1Lying is the only thing he can do in typical repugnantican fashion. I’m sure his constituents are so impressed that he left on his private jet. I suspect that the meeting with vendors will allow him to write the whole trip off.
2I’m going to have to try that with my private jet. Oh, I don’t have one. Never mind.
Let’s say he actually flooded. Let’s say that he had a super-duper mold that grows really fast. Let’s say his wife was actually ill and couldn’t be near the mold. You would think that a guy with a bunch of apartment buildings could find a place to stay here, especially after evicting that many people. Restoration of the apartments? Apartments have managers and maintenance people on staff. What would he actually be doing?
3” … and direct the recovery efforts at our apartment complexes.” Sure, he called and told the maintenance people to not spend any money trying to repair things.
I’m fed up with “leaders” who try to take credit for everything, while actually doing nothing. No, you cannot “direct” recovery efforts remotely by phone. I’d love to be a reporter and follow up with “give us two instances of where your ‘direction’ helped”.
If Beto was a Republican, you can bet he’d be claiming that he personally made all 750k wellness check calls to the elderly and disabled. If AOC was a Republican, she’d make out like all $2M raised to help Texans came from her personal checking account. But read what they actually say and tweet, and they clearly attribute things to the people who piled on and did the actual work and donations.
4… and it looks like Cheryl@3 posted similar thoughts while I was fuming and getting all grumpy!
5Well, he looks real smart! Congratulations, Texas you have him and Louie and Fled and Gov. Abbot and that guy who is under indictment. Wow!
6I lived in TX when Miss Ann was governor, DH and I were wondering just this morning how she would’ve handled things…
And he called his adult daughter “mentally handicapped”? What century is he living in?
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