Texas Medical Association Asks Texas GOP to Nix Houston Convention
At the beginning of this week, plans were moving along for the Texas GOP’s in-person convention on July 16-18, where around 6,000 state Republicans would gather at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center without any requirement for attendees to use face masks.
Thanks to sustained negative press and a public plea from the state’s leading organization for doctors, that plan might be close to falling through.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Texas Medical Association sent a letter to leading state Republican operatives, including Texas GOP Chairman James Dickey and Executive Director Kyle Whatley, asking them to reconsider their plans to go ahead with the in-person party convention in Houston. The TMA, which represents more than 53,000 Texas doctors and medical students, argued that having such a large gathering indoors with no face mask requirement in place would be far too risky given the worsening state of the pandemic.
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