The ban on mask mandates raises to a new level the Abbott strategy of increasingly overriding choices by blue-trending big urban centers as a way of mobilizing his exurban/rural base. https://t.co/2ZogwgFyhB via @TexasTribune
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 10, 2021
Greg Abbott is hoping nurses will come from other states to aid Texas's overflowing hospitals — letting them wear the masks that he won't ask Texans to wear. https://t.co/VsylFM0y3b
— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 10, 2021
It's disgusting that Greg Abbott is calling for outside help with Texas's Covid surge while barring local officials from acting to protect residents from that same surge. He and Ron DeSantis have shown new depths of contempt for public service. My latest:https://t.co/o9NsJUoq0E
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 10, 2021
I have now become aware of the best term of art for the willful antivaxxer, pro-COVID party represented by DeSantis, Abbott, Rand Paul, et al.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 10, 2021
"Spreadnecks."
That's so money.
The Dallas Independent School District says that everyone — students, employees and visitors — must wear a mask while on school property, starting today.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2021
The mandate was imposed in defiance of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. https://t.co/LT2FBqrZtD
What are odds that highly partisan & ideological TX State Supreme Court will support any lawsuit to overturn Abbott's order? Will raise question of whether Biden Admin might find a federal cause of action to support the cities (which were, after all, the core of his TX support) https://t.co/7J5lSXbo1U
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 10, 2021
My op-ed piece today in the @dallasnews, on Gov. Abbott’s misguided attempt to prohibit public schools from requiring masks.
— John Turner (@TurnerForTX) August 10, 2021
A law that is supposed to allow a governor to respond to disasters is instead being used to prevent responses to a disaster.
https://t.co/0krFwc6pw4
Sad! 