‘Casting a Vision’
By Adam Russell
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he would set a vision and course as governor to make Texas tops in the nation over the next decade.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate outlined his top priorities — public education, transportation, water and security — during a Thursday meeting with the Tyler Morning Telegraph Editorial Board.
Abbott, 57, has been the state’s top lawyer since 2002. He recalled his past playing football for Judson Middle School in Longview and “growing up” in East Texas. He also touched on the accident that left him confined to a wheelchair. Abbott was 27 and jogging in his Houston neighborhood when a tree fell and crushed his spine leaving him permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
Abbott said his story is about a person who dealt with a traumatic injury, faced and overcame challenges to become the state’s attorney general.
The experience gave him perspective, empathy and understanding toward people from diverse backgrounds he said.
“Part of it is personal and part of it is about casting a vision for what I will do for Texas,” he said. “Texans face their own challenges, and they need a leader who will help them rise to the top and help Texas rise to the top.”
Abbott said reaching his goal of making Texas tops in education and innovation, and maintaining its top spot as a job generator, would depend on bettering the lives of every Texan.
He presented a 169-page comprehensive policy plan, his “Bicentennial Blueprint,” covering various topics, such as transparency, the state’s Sunset review of agencies, higher education and water.
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