Land Comm. Buckingham Says Many Texans Are Demons-Take It For Threat It Is

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​​Here are Houston Democracy Project Blog Notes & Observations for October 14th. Election Day is in 22 days on November 5th & Early Voting begins in 7 days on October 21st.

* Above is a Facebook post made yesterday by Houston KTRK Channel 13 meteorologist Travis Herzog &  below is a Tweet made yesterday by our elected Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham.  

You see what Mr. Herzog is addressing. You can find his Facebook page to for the full deal and all the replies, but you get the idea.

There is a story in today's New York Times about threats to meteorologists since the right has been saying Democrats are conjuring up hurricanes to direct at Republican voters.

From the story--

A meteorologist based in Washington, D.C., was accused of helping the government cover up manipulating a hurricane. In Houston, a forecaster was repeatedly told to “do research” into the weather’s supposed nefarious origins. And a meteorologist for a television station in Lansing, Mich., said she had received death threats.....“Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes,” wrote the forecaster in Michigan, Katie Nickolaou, in a social media post. “I can’t believe I just had to type that.”..Meteorologists’ role of delivering lifesaving weather forecasts and explaining climate science sometimes makes them targets for harassment, and this kind of abuse has been happening for years, weather experts said. But amid the conspiracy theories and falsehoods that have spiraled online after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, they say the attacks and threats directed at them have reached new heights.

And below you see what Commissioner Buckingham is relating. She says the land is going to vomit people up and you are a demon if you oppose her views.

I take these claims about weather control and demons seriously because they are being used as the justification and structure for violence. When a statewide elected official in the 2nd largest state in the union calls me and people who share my views--millions of fellow Texans--demonic, I take it at face value. I don't view the people making the claims as stupid or ignorant. I see them as malicious and dangerous. They are part of violent movement that intends violent things.  

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