Lina Hidalgo: “The challenge was that the state agency, this ERCOT, did not have enough power generation to sustain the crisis.”

This should be another call to action that we`ve got the writing on the wall.

It is an irresponsible political trick. It is a sham. It is a cavalier and a dangerous assault on voters and on democracy.

We have to call that for what it is. And we have to make sure we don`t create some sort of false equivalency.

I`m old enough to remember when the Republican Party was opposed to regulating businesses.