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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

[State Rep. Wes] Virdell's closeup view of the havoc wreaked on his district has made a lasting impression, he said, and left him reconsidering a vote he made just a few months ago against a bill that would have established a statewide plan to improve Texas' disaster response ...

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---- off, clown.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 02:01 PM | Reply

... left him reconsidering a vote he made just a few months ago against a bill that would have established a statewide plan to improve Texas' disaster response, including better alert systems, along with a grant program for counties to buy new emergency communication equipment and build new infrastructure like radio towers. ...

Wesley Virdell
en.wikipedia.org

... Wesley Virdell, also known as Wes Virdell, is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member for the 53rd district of the Texas House of Representatives. ...

In November 2024, he defeated Joe Herrera and B. W. Holk in the general election, winning 76 percent of the votes.[3] He succeeded Andrew Murr.

He assumed office on January 14, 2025.[4] ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 03:32 PM | Reply

'Rotting flesh': CNN host stunned by smell 'permeating' TX after deadly floods

www.rawstory.com

Rotting Flesh would be a fitting name for Trump branded life jackets.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 03:44 PM | Reply

Or diapers.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 04:44 PM | Reply

Sen Cruz calling any criticism of what happened "political" reminds me of the time when Sen Cruz voted against providing relief money to the Northeast victims of Hurricane Sandy. Then subsequently turned around when Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and he needed relief money for his constituents.


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 06:15 PM | Reply

"TX Repug now regrets voting against disaster plan"

TACO Republicans are the only Republicans.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 07:54 PM | Reply

"I can tell you in hindsight, watching what it takes to deal with a disaster like this, my vote would probably be different now," said Virdell
Posted by reinheitsgebot

This one sentence from him sums up the GOP pretty well. The party has spent decades demonizing learning and expertise.
Experts on the topic develop a plan. Republicans vote against because they think they know better than the people who designed the plan. Republicans later act shocked to learn that the experts actually knew what they were talking about.

We've seen this repeated time and again and it frequently costs American lives and livelihood.

Asimov's came very close to summing up the modern GOP when he said "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'"

In the case of the GOP, they believe their ignorance is superior to knowledge.

#7 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-08 11:33 AM | Reply

So what. The guy will get re-elected, probably with 70% or more of the votes. His constituents will have their heads so full of all things illegal immigration that they will have long forgotten about 300 dead at the hands of MAGA GOP politicians ...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-08 08:04 PM | Reply

It's like Trump just now realizing Putin's been playing him. Uhhh duh. Just like we've been telling you...

#9 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-07-09 04:41 AM | Reply

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