Beto O'Rourke

Well, it`s pretty bad. And I`m saying this from the perspective of a state that is already the hardest in which to register to vote and to cast your ballot.

You are more likely to be stuck by lightning in Texas than you are to encounter voter fraud.

It gives so called poll watchers free reign inside the polling place to include even filming voters as they attempt to cast their ballots, which is going to be another avenue of intimidation especially against lower income voters, Mexican…

If we don’t get serious about addressing that, then whether it’s President Biden or his successor or a president 20 years down the line, will be facing these same challenges and these families.

He’s absolutely right. And he’s speaking in the best traditions of this country of immigrants, a country that’s the greatest on the face of the earth because of those who came here by choice and made us better by their very presence.

House Bill 6 is perhaps the greatest attack on voting rights in our democracy in Texas in nearly a decade. It’s going to make it a lot harder for a lot more Texans to vote and to make sure that their voice is heard in our democracy.

In a state that already ranks 46 in voter turnout, the state that is the hardest in which to register and to vote and to participate in our politics, they are going to make it even more restrictive.

Unfortunately so. We`ve got people in government who literally believe that government is the problem and don`t believe in government at all. And in the case of our junior senator, sought to overthrow the government of the United States of…

I think there`s a lot of corruption involved, we need to follow the money and the facts, let us not stop on this story for the benefit of the people of Texas and for the accountability and justice that we deserve.

Whatever you call it, it is going to kill people. And this is in a state that`s already lost 44,000 people due to the ineptitude of our governor failing to meet the moment and the challenge and to follow the best public health advice.

This is like a wag the dog moment, where you seek to distract attention... it is to go to war on your own people, and to -- with all certainty because the science says so, to guarantee the deaths of those who otherwise would have been…

There are 280 bodies stacked up in a warehouse because there are not enough grave diggers and not enough graves to be dug to put them in the ground. They had to set up 10 Mobile wards. And that`s just in my city right now is 85 percent…

He's basically told Texas, you're on your own. He and the rest of our state government have given up, we're left to our own devices.

He's presiding over a state that is approaching the classic definition of a failed state, but literally cannot guarantee electricity, running water, heat when temperatures are dropping into the single digits.

He's putting the most vulnerable, those $7 and 25 cent our workers, the health care workers, nurses, doctors, and administrative support staff. He's putting them in harm's way right now by doing this.

I don't know why he would do this. I know that in doing so many more of our fellow Texans are going to die beyond the 44,000 who've already come to COVID in the ill prepared way that he met the pandemic and in the Bosch rollout of the…

Abbott is killing the people of Texas.

the folks who made these decisions are still in power and we need to make new decisions and potentially have new people in those positions of public trust to make them if we`re not going to have this again.

His organization Powered By People has raised over $1 million. He`s been going door to door checking in on folks, helping connect them to various resources.

they realize that every member of the Texas Railroad Commission which regulates not railroads but the oil and gas and energy industry in Texas have responsibility for the development and transmission of our energy resources that were…

this is not a natural disaster, it is a man-made one. And the men who made it are still in power and have yet to be held accountable for it.

And even more strange that here we are in the energy capital of North America and yet we couldn’t power the homes and lives of millions of our fellow Texans.

But let’s learn from this, let’s improve the electricity grid we have here and let’s put people in positions of power who actually care for those that they represent and swear that they serve.

Meaning that if we had not deregulated, if we had instead connected to the rest of the national electricity grid, if we had required weatherization, investing more in people instead of profits, and if we allowed for some excess capacity…

To add insult to injury, and that schoolteacher, if she’s like half of school teachers in Texas is working a second or even third job to make ends meet because we don’t pay our public school educators half enough for the work that they do…