(Veronica G. Cardenas / Reuters)
The Democratic nominee for governor of Texas and former lawmaker Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference at which Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials provided up-to-date information on the shooting at Uwalde Elementary School.
He approached the stage where Abbott was speaking. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornin were present, along with other officials and lawmakers.
“It’s time to stop the next shooting right now and you’re not doing anything,” O’Rourke told Abbott.
Cruz told O’Rourke to “sit down,” and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick added, “You’re off the line.”
O’Rourke was heard saying “this is completely predictable,” and then he was told he had to leave while stage officials called to him.
The abbot did not commit and hardly looked at O’Rourke, but the mayor of Uwalde, Don McLaughlin, shouted at O’Rourke: “You are a sick son of a bitch who would come to such a deal.
O’Rourke was taken away by officers.
As he left the room, O’Rourke told Abbott, “It’s up to you until you decide to do something different. This will continue to happen. Someone has to stand up for the children of this country or they will continue to be killed, just as they were killed in Uwalde yesterday. “
Abbott then said the outbreak was on the agenda.
“There are family members crying as we talk, there are family members whose hearts are broken, there are no words for anyone to shout, they can come here and do anything to heal those broken hearts. All of us, every Texan, every American has a responsibility. We need to focus not on ourselves and our programs, “he said.
Speaking to reporters after leaving the press conference, O’Rourke told Abbott: “He said he would do something. He did nothing. In fact, the only thing he did was make it easier to carry a gun in a public place.
“His only interest is the arms lobby. He is due to speak at the NRA Congress this Friday in Houston, Texas, just days after these children were slaughtered right here in Uwalde, after they were slaughtered at Santa Fe High School, in Sutherland Springs, in Midland-Odessa, in El Paso. , Texas. “Five of the worst mass hosting in US history, right here in this state for the last five years, he was the governor of each of them,” O’Rourke continued.
Less than an hour before O’Rourke interrupted the press conference, he sent an email to his supporters saying the shooting of Uwalde was a “direct consequence” of Greg Abbott’s “choice.”
“These massacres are not natural disasters, God’s actions or accidental. They are completely predictable, direct consequences of the election made by Greg Abbott and most of those in the Texas legislature, “he wrote.
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