Team,
Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz are playing dangerous political games with the coronavirus, and Texans are suffering.
As the Delta variant surges across Texas, Governor Abbott has banned local communities, including schools, from requiring masks. Ted Cruz has introduced legislation to ban mask mandates nationwide. All so they can cater to their extreme right-wing base.
Texas is quickly becoming the capital of COVID misery. More than 10,000 Texans are hospitalized. ICU beds are down in the single digits across the state. And still, less than half of the state is vaccinated.
Instead of doing their jobs, statewide Republican leaders are trying to arrest Texas Democrats so they can pass their extreme voter suppression bill. They're trying to rig our elections so voters can't hold them accountable at the polls.
At the same time, Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz have turned opposing basic COVID safety measures into their #1 political fundraising tool. They've raised millions of dollars in campaign cash spreading vaccine skepticism, attacking the Biden administration, and removing safety precautions against the virus.
Thank you for everything you do. Together we can defeat this virus and defeat the politicians who refuse to do their jobs.
Thank you,
Sawyer Hackett
Executive Director, People First Future