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Early voting began in Texas Monday, October 20, and both candidates began their first Get Out The Vote appearances in the Houston area. Houston is in Harris County, the most populous county in the state and the third most populous county in the country.
I attended Greg Abbott's kickoff at a barbecue joint in Conroe, Texas, a very red town northeast of Houston. Abbott wheeled himself into the joint and immediately started his stump speech. One would think he was running either against President Obama or to be the evangelical pastor of the state. The following skit is the impression any thinking liberal would have left with.
I did not want to be conspicuous, so I did not record the actual interviews he had with the local news reporters. Suffice it to say, they threw Abbott several softball questions. He was not asked about issues the Wendy Davis campaign brought up during the campaign. He was not asked about issues the media should have brought up years ago.
The local media failed to ask him about women and minorities being paid less for comparable positions in his attorney general's office. They failed to ask him about the crony dealings with the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). They coddled him in questioning him on his refusal to answer whether he would have defended Texas'ban on interracial marriages as he is refusing to defend Texas' ban on marriage equality.
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