Attendees in Dallas seemed energized by the state’s abortion ban, lax gun laws and power grid failures. But they also knew they face major headwinds.
For the party leaders who convened them for the first statewide convention since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the necessary response was clear: channel that anger and help end Democratic exile from statewide office — primarily by ousting Gov.“Greg Abbott is chaos,” O’Rourke told the crowd during his keynote address. “He is corruption, he is cruelty and he is incompetence. But he is not Texas and he is not us.
Some expressed frustration about the areas of the state where the party seemed to be losing ground. The state party hasn’t poured enough resources into rural counties, especially in South Texas, said Lizette Gonzales. She said she sees Republicans aggressively targeting rural counties and trying to flip them while the state party sits idly by.
Delegates will vote on Saturday on whether to reelect Hinojosa, who is being challenged by Olsen and Carroll G. Robinson.But amid the disappointment, there was also a sense that Republicans had gone too far in their pursuit of a conservative agenda, and a hope that GOP leadership’s policies will alienate Texans.
When the high court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing Texas to ban the procedure, Liz Corsey, a 32-year-old from Dallas, was angry. But she also thought of her two daughters — and worried about a future where reproductive rights were drastically rolled back. Another common complaint: the condition of the electric grid during a week that its state-run overseer issued pleas for Texans to conserve power as temperatures of more than 100 degrees gripped the state. Standing in line to meet O’Rourke at his booth in an exhibition hall, Steve Fox, a 46-year-old state employee, referred to the hundreds of people who died without power and heat during the winter freeze in February 2021.
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