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Abbott, Patrick defend Texas election bill from corporations 'that don't share our values'
The Texas Senate approved the bill earlier Thursday. It calls for changes to voting hours, the number of voting machines at polling places and would give the state greater authority over local-level elections, the Dallas Morning News reported. The bill now moves on to the Texas House. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, defended the bill as an attempt to "protect election integrity," the report said. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, also a Reoublican, slammed corporate critics for getting involved in the state’s policy debates, and called out American Airlines specifically. "Texans are fed up with corporations that don’t share our values trying to dictate public policy," Patrick said in a statement. He also claimed that an American Airlines lobbyist "admitted that neither he nor the American Airlines CEO had actually read the legislation." The lieutenant governor added that the same airline had opposed a 2017 proposal regarding transgender athletes participating in scholastic sports. Other corporations speaking out against the Texas election legislation included Southwest Airlines and Dell Technologies, both based in Texas. Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-02 |
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