Ted Fled, But It’s Abbott Who Left Us To Freeze

Responsible Party

Millions of Texans went for days without power, water, or heat in record low temperatures while Greg Abbott sat in his fully heated mansion leaving Texans to suffer. Even after pressure from the press and the public demanded his attention, Abbott ducked, dodged, and lied to shift responsibility away from himself. Abbott falsely pointed to wind turbines and other alternative fuels instead of addressing the real issue – 20 years of one-party Republican control that left the Texas energy grid weakened and unable to handle severe weather.

Now the covers have been pulled back, and Abbott’s incompetence and complicity are apparent for all of Texas to see. Greg Abbott has been either Texas Attorney General or Governor since 2003. Over two decades, rather than provide oversight and enforce service and safety, Abbott made energy providers his cronies and allowed them to skip out on emergency preparation and winterization.

National Attention

CNBC

• How the Texas power grid failed and what could stop it from happening again

Daily Beast

• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Shows Where His Loyalties Lie Amid Crippling Power Outages

New York Times

• No, Wind Farms Aren’t the Main Cause of the Texas Blackouts
• Texas Could Have Kept the Lights On

CBS News

• Texas Governor Greg Abbott passes blame for statewide power outages

Yahoo Finance

• Bill Gates says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s explanation for power outages is ‘actually wrong’

Raw Story

• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is ‘passing the buck’ on power grid failures: CNN’s Erin Burnett

CNN

• Texas Republicans criticized for misleading claims that renewable energy sources caused massive outages
• Texas governor says he is responsible for the status of ERCOT, vows reforms
• Keilar fact-checks Texas governor’s slam of Green New Deal