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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd now a word from a lying sack of shit....
Texas governor tries to shift blame for state's most expensive disaster
By Donna Provencher -February 25, 2021 5:30 PM
'It's almost like a murder suspect blaming their right hand for committing the crime.'
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has repeatedly tried to shift blame for last week's power and water outages that affected 4 million people in the state onto the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the organization that operates Texas' electrical grid but other Texas officials claim the state's own policies and failures are to blame for the crisis.
In a televised address Wednesday night, Abbott slammed ERCOT for its failures leading up to the disaster. "Many of you are angry and you have a right to be," he said. "I'm angry too. At a time when essential services were needed the most, the system broke. You deserve answers. You will get those answers."
He noted that ERCOT had repeatedly assured him that it was prepared to face the winter storms; Abbott has already called for an investigation into its role in the statewide power outages.
Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.
https://americanindependent.com/greg-abbott-governor-texas-ercot-power-grid-failures-winter-storms/
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And now a word from a lying sack of shit.... (Original Post)
turbinetree
Feb 2021
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These dolts are probably scouring Hillary's emails right now using ERCOT as a keyword.
Comfortably_Numb
Feb 2021
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Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)1. Fuck _______. Insert virtually ANY republican name here.
Abbott-its your turn in the barrel...turd.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. I realize you're angry; well, I'm angry, too
We can argue back and forth all day long about who was governing the state and who's been in thrall to the energy companies and who only suggested but didn't require winterization measures and who broke the system and who died as a result and who fled the state during the crisis. But let's just say that everyone made a mistake somewhere along the line, blame Antifa, and move on.
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)3. These dolts are probably scouring Hillary's emails right now using ERCOT as a keyword.