After the Uvalde school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott spent nearly three hours on the ground in Huntsville at a campaign fundraiser that he was criticized for...
why he didn’t cancel the Walker County fundraiser, Abbott noted he had been in Abilene when he learned of an 18-year-old gunman’s rampage that killed 19 third- and fourth-graders and two teachers.
“On the way back to Austin, I stopped and let people know that I could not stay, that I needed to go,” Abbott said. “And I wanted them to know what happened and get back to Austin so that I could continue my collaboration with Texas law enforcement to make sure that all the needs were being met here in the Uvalde area.
O’Rourke spent between $618,000 and $825,000 on Facebook ads between May 24 and June 1, Miner said. Some of the ads mentioned guns and Uvalde, he noted.O’Rourke spokesman Chris Evans, though, said the Democrat mentioned Uvalde only in ads that asked the public to RSVP and attend five “Protect Texas Kids” town halls he held in the wake of the mass shooting.
“We’re always spending money on Facebook,” Evans said. “Their accusation is that we spent money to capitalize off of Uvalde. We in fact chose not to do that.” Speaking of the Abbott camp, Evans said, “They’re trying to kick dust up around this. They’re trying to get people to look at that instead of [Abbott’s] not going to a single funeral and not going back to the community, not calling a special session even though the school board and the city council have now passed unanimous resolutions asking him to.”
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