Abbott Calls Rio

[Nbadan]

....Grand Valley a third world country...


Texas Dems employ automated calls after Abbott’s ‘Third World’ comment



The Texas Democratic party launched an automated phone call this week to homes in the Rio Grande Valley in response to remarks made by Texas Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott.

“The creeping corruption resembles Third World country practices that erode the social fabric of our communities and destroys Texans trust and confidence in government,” Abbott said during a Feb. 4 speech in reference to the several corruption scandals in Cameron, Starr and Hidalgo counties.

The “Third World” comment quickly came under fire from local democrats. State Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg said comparing the Valley to the Third World was offensive and ignorant.

The automated calls will go to homes in Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr and Willacy counties and say that Abbott’s comment is damaging to Texas’ border region.

More at http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_db27c9a8-937b-11e3-8326-0017a43b2370.html .

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Repug reachout to Hispanics, pissing off even Hispanic Repugs.

[CosmicCowboy]

Are you guys serious? Hell yes the valley is corrupted by drug money and mordita. Judges, District Attorneys, cops, police chiefs, mayors...the money to be made is just too tempting. The third world comparison is definitely valid.

Just look at the top stories from this week alone in the RGV's newspaper...

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/contents.aspx?metadata=keywords=Corruption#.Uvt2o_ ldV8E

[Drachen]

He didn't say the RGV is a third world country, he said the corruption there is like what you would find in a third world country.

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Who has been the Texas Atty General, the top law enforcement officer, for the past 12 years?

[CosmicCowboy]

Who has been the Texas Atty General, the top law enforcement officer, for the past 12 years?

You are such a partisan fuck. Could it be that is why he is aware of the systemic corruption?

[CosmicCowboy]

Denying the corruption just makes Boutons and Wendy look stupid.

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Did people used to get outraged over such stupid shit before the internet and wingnut talk radio?

[CosmicCowboy]

Did people used to get outraged over such stupid shit before the internet and wingnut talk radio?

Oh, I think politicians have been taking shots at each other forever...you just had to read the newspaper or watch the news to hear about it. Anyone with half a brain knows the valley is a shithole of corruption and always has been. It's not a racist hispanic thing, it's a corruption thing.

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You are such a partisan fuck. Could it be that is why he is aware of the systemic corruption?

what has he done to stop it? where are his 12 years of prosecutions? or is he preoccupied with stroking you bubbas with xenophobia and "border security"?

[CosmicCowboy]

what has he done to stop it? where are his 12 years of prosecutions? or is he preoccupied with stroking you bubbas with xenophobia and "border security"?

LOL Partisan fuck.

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LOL Partisan fuck.

what has he done to stop it? where are his 12 years of prosecutions? or is he preoccupied with stroking you bubbas with xenophobia and "border security"?

[CosmicCowboy]

Read up on the constitutional responsibilities of the Texas Attorney General dumbass. Historically the AG only gets involved in criminal prosecutions at the specific request of local prosecutors.

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so Abbot whines about corruption in RGV, but hasn't taken any initiatives to fight it? OK, he's VERY STRONG on law enforcement

[CosmicCowboy]

so Abbot whines about corruption in RGV, but hasn't taken any initiatives to fight it? OK, he's VERY STRONG on law enforcement

Asshole. Who the fuck was whining? He made a statement that the RGV was systemically corrupt. It's a fact. It was your girl Wendy that got her panties in a wad over it and tried to turn it into a racial issue.

[Bill_Brasky]

Are you guys serious? Hell yes the valley is corrupted by drug money and mordita. Judges, District Attorneys, cops, police chiefs, mayors...the money to be made is just too tempting. The third world comparison is definitely valid.

Just look at the top stories from this week alone in the RGV's newspaper...

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/contents.aspx?metadata=keywords=Corruption#.Uvt2o_ ldV8E

That type of stuff happens every day in various parts of the country. But when brown people do it they are compared to a third world country.

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That type of stuff happens every day in various parts of the country. But when brown people do it they are compared to a third world country.

Abbot's RGV insult, as if RGV were not even part of TX, is obviously a dog-whistle about "wet backs" to the Repug base of nativists, xenophobes, racists.

[CosmicCowboy]

That type of stuff happens every day in various parts of the country. But when brown people do it they are compared to a third world country.

Only stupid liberals would think it was because they were brown.

It's about money and opportunity. The flood of drug shipments across a porous border creates the opportunity. It's not about race.

[CosmicCowboy]

The only way to kill the drug money and bribery is to legalize it, grow it, and tax it.

[Bill_Brasky]

Only stupid liberals would think it was because they were brown.

It's about money and opportunity. The flood of drug shipments across a porous border creates the opportunity. It's not about race.
No I mean that literally every day in this country politicians take money from private corporations and make laws protecting those corporations' interests. Are we a third world country?


I agree that the RGV is a shithole btw.

[CosmicCowboy]

No I mean that literally every day in this country politicians take money from private corporations and make laws protecting those corporations' interests. Are we a third world country?


I agree that the RGV is a shithole btw.

Well, we DO have a black President... :lol

[Bill_Brasky]

Well, we DO have a black President... :lol

Fuckin democrap.

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Abbot's implicit racism towards brown Human-Americans in his own TX is just like some Fox bimbo, or right-wing equivalent, doubting Judge Sotomayor's allegiance to the USA. She was born an American citizen, but that doesn't count. She's brown.