Texas State Representative Poncho Nevarez blasts GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Gregg Abbott’s Platform

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc.

Texas State Representative Poncho Nevarez (D-Eagle Pass, District 74) blasted Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Gregg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Candidate Dan Patrick on the anti-Latino, anti-Texas-Mexico Border, and extremely conservative GOP Party Platform at a press conference held on Thursday, June 12, 2014, in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the banks of the Rio Grande River on the Texas-Mexico border.

Representative Nevarez referenced the derogatory comments made by Republican Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott earlier this year that the Texas-Mexico border was a third-world country as well as Republican Dan Patrick inflammatory statement that undocumented aliens bring disease and criminal activity into Texas as being unacceptable to the citizens of Texas, particularly the Texas-Mexico border, and called upon the electorate to stand up to this extreme conservatism by exercising their right to vote in the November 4, 2014 Texas general election.

Nevarez called upon the Texas Hispanic community to seize the opportunity to have their voice be counted and heard in Austin, Texas by voting against the Texas Republican Party’s Platform and candidates against zero-tolerance immigration policies including no guest worker program for Texas businesses needing unavailable labor and no pathway to citizenship for undocumented aliens and their children until the United States-Mexico border is secured.

Nevarez suggested that Republican Gubernatorial candidate Gregg Abbott’s silence on the extreme Texas Republican Party’s platform, which was approved last Saturday, June 7th, at the GOP State Convention in Fort Worth, Texas but has not been officially published, is tacit agreement with the GOP’s Anti-Latino platform. Nevarez added that the Texas Republican Party’s Platform is an insult to Hispanics and the Texas-Mexico border communities.

Nevarez pointed that until Hispanics vote against the Texas Republican Party’s extreme conservative platform and their candidates such as Gregg Abbott and Dan Patrick the Texas border communities and Hispanics will continue to lack true representation in state government in Austin.