Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Wednesday suggested that the people of the Lone Star State would rather spend more time without electricity than see increased federal involvement in their state.
“Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” a blog post on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s website quoted Perry as saying, though the post says Perry’s remark was made “partly rhetorically.“
The remark from the former U.S. Energy Secretary comes as many parts of Texas remain without electricity amid a record-setting winter storm. More than a dozen deaths have been linked to the crisis.
The post on McCarthy’s website warns that observers on the left might see the situation as an “opportunity to expand their top-down, radical proposals.”
Texas’s power grid isn’t subject to regulations from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, because it doesn’t cross state lines.
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Rick Perry: "Texans would be without electricity for longer" to "keep the federal government out" https://t.co/5lWlJUpFvW pic.twitter.com/igTiOc1dFd
— The Hill (@thehill) February 18, 2021
So I guess this means they won’t be asking for any federal disaster relief money and they won’t mind not having any vaccine shipped to TX for awhile until they have their power back. Did he take a poll and ask the citizens? How does he know what they want?
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