in The Texas Tribune.
Former state Sen. Don Huffines, a conservative Republican from Dallas who has been critical of Gov. Greg Abbott s coronavirus policies, announced Monday that he is challenging Abbott in the 2022 primary. Texas deserves actual Republican leadership that will act urgently and decisively no more excuses or lies, Huffines said in a statement, vowing bolder action on border security, property taxes and elections.
Huffines is a wealthy businessman who served in the Senate from 2015-2019. He was unseated by Democrat Nathan Johnson in 2018.
Abbott is up for a third term in 2022 and has drawn some heat from within his party for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. Huffines has criticized Abbott as being too slow to fully reopen the state and he spoke at a protest outside the Governor s Mansion last fall.
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At some point, you hit a place where the rapidity at which you re vaccinating starts to tail off, said Zerwas, a former Republican state legislator and executive vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Texas System, adding that the state is expecting a certain percentage of people in each eligible group will decline to be vaccinated.
But vaccination waitlists remain long in many parts of the state. Texas ranks near the bottom in percentage of people given one shot and percentage of people fully vaccinated, at slightly more than 8%. Doses are allocated by the federal government proportionate to the population of each state.
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To “step on a rake” is a euphemism for inflicting pain and damage upon yourself. The imagery is straightforward: You’re walking through a yard, accidentally step on the head of a rake, and the handle whips up and smacks you on the bean. Sideshow Bob of
This week, a number of Republican officials across the country abruptly decided COVID was done, in defiance of all present evidence, and set about tap-dancing on a whole pile of rakes. It would be funny in a sad clown kind of way, but for this: When people like that step on rakes like these, COVID swoops in and kills thousands. It has happened already this year, and if these fellows get their way, it is about to happen again.