Forget the SUPPRESSED voters. The conscious NON-voters just don’t care until their own individual, personal number is up under Rethug policies.
Yip, the information about “the issues” is out there, just as much as when Molly IVINS was schooling the nation against the nefariousness of Texas BFEE wingnuts and nobody nationwide paid attention. So Abbott will cruise or CRUZ to victory for the next eight years because he’s just SO charismatic, comfortable in his own skin, as Hamlet said, “That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain—”. Our oblivious non-voters will have to continue to be ravaged on an individual basis by the Rethug policies of dismantling the investment in human potential, social justice, civil rights and liberties, and stewardship of the environment. When each non-voter and the gullible Rethug supporters voting against their own self-interests are individually touched by their personal plights, they can always go to the local t.v. channels that do “on your side” segments to weep for help.
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http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-post/greg-abbott-enters-fray-lawsuits-involving-sociopath-doctor
[font size=5]Greg Abbott Enters Fray in Lawsuits Involving "Sociopath" Doctor[/font]
.... [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]In the movie version[/FONT] of the story, though, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]there would[/FONT] — one would expect — [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]be some justice[/FONT] for the survivors of Duntsch's operations, or for their families. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]But this is Texas[/FONT], and thanks to tort reform, such justice is hard to come by. And, if a recent intervention by Attorney General Greg Abbott into federal lawsuits filed by three of the families who suffered on Duntsch's operating table works out the way the Republican nominee for Governor hopes, it may stay that way. ....
Those lawsuits challenge — in federal court — the constitutionality of Texas [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]House Bill 4[/FONT], which passed in [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]2003[/FONT] and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]changed the standard[/FONT] required to prove malice in malpractice suits [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]from "gross negligence[/FONT]" in allowing a doctor like Duntsch to continue to practice despite a pattern of patients dying or waking up paralyzed on his operating table, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]to proving[/FONT] that the hospital actually [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]intended to harm[/FONT] those patients.
That's [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]a standard that's "ridiculously high[/FONT]," the Dallas Business Journal quoted Dallas malpractice lawyer Frank L. Branson as saying — but it's a standard that Attorney General Greg [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Abbott is convinced is constitutional[/FONT], and one that he's chosen to intervene in to defend in the lawsuits surrounding Duntsch and Baylor Regional.
The Dallas Morning News says that [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Abbott's defense of the law could make it much harder[/FONT] for the plaintiffs to win their suits against the hospital: ....
The [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Attorney General's office isn't obligated to defend laws like these[/FONT], but it has the option to do so. The tort reform package in HB 4 was a popular law when it passed in 2003, with provisions that [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]made it difficult to sue hospitals and which capped awards for pain and suffering at $250,000[/FONT]. But it also means that, with minimal consequences in the courts for allowing a doctor like Duntsch to continue to practice, there's little incentive for hospitals to take swift action when a Christopher Dunstch is performing operations that leave patients maimed or dead. According to the Morning News, Baylor made a profit of $65,000 on each of his surgeries. ....
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