Bud Kennedy: Texas most conservative 48 hours went Greg Abbott s way for 2022 (and 2024?)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 5/8/2021 Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
May 8 FORT WORTH Call it the Greg Abbott Protection Session.
With a governor up for re-election in 2022 and maybe considering a presidential run in 2024, Republican lawmakers are pushing potential opponents out of the way like Panhandle snowplows during the Big Freeze: Gun-rights activists, the faction that has barked loudest at the governor the past two years?
They ll get to carry a handgun without a license. Abortion abolitionists, the extremist Republican faction that demands Texas completely end abortions regardless what the Constitution and courts say?