At a Tuesday news conference, RepAlGreen slammed the Texas Republican Party for taking “the most infamous political U-turn in history” and called, once again, upon the state’s business leaders to speak out against gun violence.
“The Republican Party has lost its way,” said U.S. Rep. Al Green at a news conference on Tuesday, June 21. At the Texas Republican Convention, delegates voted on party platform changes that would move their party even further to the right.At a Tuesday news conference, U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, slammed the Texas Republican Party for taking “the most infamous political U-turn in history” and called, once again, upon the state’s business leaders to speak out against gun violence.
In addition to dubbing homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice” and endorsing conversion therapy, this year’s platform also said that “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.” “When you say no to gun safety laws, and that it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun, you are literally saying that ‘we’re going to solve our disputes with guns,’” Green said. “That’s what you see happening now, many young people and people in general are resolving their disputes with guns. This will take us back to July 11, 1804, when Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Some convention attendees called Cornyn a “RINO” . Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens released a controversial campaign ad on Monday in which he and a group of armed men in combat gear are seen hunting RINOs.
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