Abbott Comes To Houston To Bash Judges As He Claims To Care About Crime-More Folks To Work With ICE

​I watched Governor Abbott’s press conference today about additional new law enforcement push in Houston and Harris County. It was a terrible program. I did not enjoy it.

Here is a quick report: 

What the press conference was most about was bashing Harris County Democratic Judges and 2026 politics. Governor Abbott bashed the judges in this meeting.

What they claimed the meeting was about, was additional state police to focus on repeat violent offenders. Repeat violent offenders are bad people. It’s just that if you really cared, you’d get guns off the street and not slash the social safety net. You’d not come to a Democratic-voting county right before an election year and bash public officials in the presence of supposedly non-partisan police officers.

The man on the far-left is Ray Hunt. Mr Hunt is known to be a high-ranking official at the Houston Police Officer’s “Union.” He praised Governor Abbott for there now being “nine Republican Judges” on the Harris County Criminal Bench. Discussing the issues today he said “…now that the federal government supports us” on being tough on crime.

Imagine thinking this federal government supports the rule of law.

The other people at the microphone were a Texas Department of Public Safety bigwig, Governor Abbott and a top official from so-called “Crimestoppers.”

There is somewhere among the law enforcement officers in the background, a HPD assistant chief. Abbott was asked what Mayor Whitmire thinks about all this. He hemmed and hawed. Who knows what the private conversation was like. We know Mayor Whitmire is plenty comfortable with Governor Abbott.

I don’t like repeat violent offenders. They are scary. I also know that these additional state police are more resources for ICE as they terrorize the Latino working and laboring class & are more resources for Trump to enforce the suspension of civil liberties.

It would be great to have a state government that was not so horrible.

I'm on the Egberto Willies Politics Done Right Show every Thursday from 6 AM to 7 AM for the Houston Democracy Project segment. You can hear the show on the radio, stream it on KPFT or watch later Egberto's YouTube channel.​​​​​

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