Commission To Rebuild Texas Update: Issue 5
AUSTIN - In visiting this week with many of our smaller communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey, I am heartened by the progress being made. Texans remain resolute and united. Schools and businesses are reopening. And while the road ahead will be long as many...
Learn How Small Businesses Can Thrive In RGV At Governor’s Forum
This Op-Ed originally appeared in The Monitor on October 11, 2017. Small businesses are big in Texas. More than nine in 10 businesses in Texas are small businesses, and they employ nearly half of all private-sector employees. Men and women willing to take a risk, to...
Commission To Rebuild Texas Update: Issue 4
AUSTIN - Day in and day out as our fellow Texans work to rebuild after Hurricane Harvey’s devastation, we are reminded that our lives are not measured by how we are challenged but by how we respond to those challenges. In our classrooms and communities, we are seeing...
Commission To Rebuild Texas Update: Issue 3
AUSTIN - The worst of storms has brought out the best of humanity. The outpouring of support from individuals, businesses and nonprofit organizations for Texans devastated by Hurricane Harvey has been overwhelming. Neighbors are helping neighbors, and strangers are...
Important Update on Texas’ Sanctuary Cities Ban
On September 25th, A panel of judges delivered a major victory for the Rule of Law by unanimously ruling that key components of our sanctuary cities ban are able to be enforced while the case is tied up in court. The judges from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals...
Commission To Rebuild Texas Update: Issue 2
AUSTIN - The true strength of the Lone Star State is found in our people. In the Rockport-Fulton area along the Texas Gulf Coast on the morning after Harvey’s first direct hit as a Category 4 hurricane, still-stunned residents gathered outside one of the local...
Governor Abbott Congratulates James Dickey as the Next Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas
Governor Abbott Congratulates James Dickey as the Next Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott released the following statement congratulating James Dickey as the next chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. "I want to congratulate...
Why I Called For A Constitutional Convention Of States
Governor Abbott's recent op-ed on the why he is calling for an Article V Convention of States appeared in The Dallas Morning News on May 3rd, 2017. By Governor Greg Abbott The Dallas Morning News in its recent editorial would have you believe that a Convention of...
Governor Abbott Endorses Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate
Governor Abbott Endorses Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott today announced his support for Ted Cruz for Senate in the upcoming 2018 election. In endorsing Senator Cruz, Governor Abbott issued the following statement: “Since Ted Cruz was elected to...
We will not flinch in our resolve to keep Texas safe
Governor Abbott's recent op-ed on the importance of keeping Texans safe first appeared in The Dallas Morning News on February 3rd, 2017. By Governor Greg Abbott In the last legislative session, we made Texas freer, stronger, safer and smarter. In addition to improving...