Sheriff Ruben Nolasco won re-election despite pressure from victims’ families to step down and a Justice Department report finding ‘cascading’ failures among the law enforcement response that day
For nearly two years, a Texas county sheriff has refused to step down after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in 2022.
Instead, on Super Tuesday, Uvalde County sheriff Ruben Nolasco faced voters for the first time in the wake of the massacre.
And he won re-election with roughly 39 per cent of votes against three Republican challengers, according to preliminary results.
The sheriff has repeatedly rebuffed calls to resign or withdraw his candidacy for re-election despite overwhelming public pressure from victims’ families, demands that he face criminal charges, and a federal investigation that detailed a minute-by-minute timeline exposing “cascading” failures in the law enforcement response that day.
And Biden is winning the Democratic vote while supporting Genocide. More news at 11.
To be fair, what alternative is there?
Trump and participating in the genocide.
Is trump against the genocide?
No, he supports participating in it directly.
What alternative was there for the GOP Texas voters?
If we could just declare schoolchildren to be embryos, Republicans might consider their lives to have value and be worth protecting.
Nope.
In Alabama, as soon as the Republicans realized their craziness impacted their own lives, changing the rules became the top priority of the state. They are doing a perfect job of showing us they could do their jobs super efficiently, but have zero desire to.
Also, their workaround will protect the businesses and the doctors, but not the patients.
Cruelty to the ‘others’ is the point.
I’ve said it before, Uvalde had a chance to bring about change and they immediately voted Abbott back in and their community reelected the same sheriffs and judges who did nothing while their kids died. After a point my sympathy is used to for these people, if they don’t care about their own kids and community, why should I?
Because their police standards and practices are, by and large, our deep blue city police standards and practices. Some minor differences sure but you transplant people from one department to another and they’ll fit right in.
Yep. This is why I stopped feeling sorry for people in red states.
The victims of Republican policies deserve no sympathy because they committed the sin of being outnumbered?
No, because there is only so much compassion someone can have before needing to become practical.
Republicans’ victims are disposable so long as they’re stuck in red states. Loud and clear.
Yeah dude you’re somehow some paragon of virtue as you judge me across the internet for your own personal reasons. You will project your insecurity as strongly as an evangelical or member of PETA in an attempt to convince yourself that your own shit doesn’t smell. Loud and clear.
I live in Texas, so I deserve to be mistreated because I’m outnumbered, according to you.
You’re toxic and deserve to be blocked by me, which I am doing now. Grow up and stop proving my point.
Bruh I live in Texas too, and the second that Abbott was re-voted in, in 2022, after the 6 week “Heartbeat Bill”, AND he took Uvalde after his “Coulda Been Worse” comments, that’s when I was like “To hell with this fucking state.”
I vote in every election, even for the piddly local shit, but I do not expect change, and the second that I’m able to, I’m out.
You can only expect people to have compassion for those of us residing in deep red states for so long. Abbott was a popular vote. And he won by a lot.
I’m trying to remain hopeful/optimistic for Allred. I really do think he can usher in an Era of change.
As a Canadian who lives in Alberta, this pains me.
I despise our provincial government. I vote in every election. I reach out to my electors who I disagree with. And it doesn’t matter because a bunch of old “got mine” boomers rich on oil money, keep voting in their shitty friends who are looting the public in plain view.
Why don’t I move? Because the whole fucking world seems to be going this way, and the housing market is insane.
This is also why it’s worth living in a place like Vancouver or San Francisco. Yes it’s expensive but you’re safe and will be respected by the people around you.
That’s a wild take. lol. I’d never let the beliefs of others factor in my support for… kids.
It’s infuriating.
How can you live in that community and be happy with this as an outcome?
Zero accountability for anyone with the blood of literal children on their hands but I’m sure they’ll go after the corrupting influence of ‘woke’ Democrats.
Texans are some of the most delusional people on the planet.
Once you realize this, a lot of their behaviors start to make sense.
Republicans have repeatedly proven that dead kids are a price they’re willing to pay if it means they don’t have to elect a democrat.
Every school shooting ever is proof of that. They want to keep that barrier against gun control in place at any price.
The guy won against 3 other republican contenders, so it’s not even about party politics
That’s just sad.
He only got the plurality vote though l, so it’s likely the contenders split the vote against him.
There’s just no fucking hope for these people. I have no words
Yes, there is no helping Texans at this point.
The only solution is to leave and let them implode on their own.
It’s the Republican primary, not the general election
And 39% for the incumbent in a primary is far from a decisive win
He probably won’t win the general.
That’s still an embarrassing amount of ppl wanting an incompetent failure running the sheriff department
Only if you forget the sample is republican primary voters…
Hell, it’s probably less votes than trump got. When even trump voters are turning him down, he ain’t gonna win the general.
Nope, in a rural Texas county, the Republican primary is for all intents and purposes the general.
Remember how soon after the massacre, Uvalde county overwhelmingly voted to re-elect Abbot?
These people don’t care about their own children
The parents of the actual children cared enough to campaign against them… But as for the rest of the voters: it isn’t their kids.
America is the world capital of “rugged individualism,” and it’s basically Texas’ whole schtick. These people don’t give a shit until it happens to them. Like directly to them.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Texas
The most Texan thing ever.
Voting. It just works.
What happens when a system that only works with an educated, engaged, and intellectually honest population starts attacking education, engagement, and honesty?
Good things, surely.
Always Mess with Texas
Please Tread on me
Conservatives gotta conserve.
Republicans care about kids SO MUCH that they’ll HAPPILY REELECT someone who allowed 19 Schoolchildren to be GUNNED DOWN!
Why are positions like Sheriff and Coroner elected? Shouldn’t they be appointed/hired based on ACTUAL FUCKING QUALIFICATIONS and experience?
Many counties the sheriff is the primary elected official. They are generally the local executive, outside of cities that are largely enough to need a more formal government.
Because they are left over from the 1800’s and people are too stupid to fix it.
Not stupid, just they know they can use the shitty system to their advantage.
It makes them independent of the mayor, who appoints the police chief and is effective in control of the police department (if the chief doesn’t cooperate with them they’ll appoint a new one). The mayor is just as likely to be corrupt as the sheriff, so having 2 separate law enforcement agencies that are able to investigate each other seems like a good idea. In an ideal situation they’d keep each other honest.
Checks and balances…
Interestingly, basically no one has any checks on sheriffs. We can “vote them out” but that’s extremely difficult, and sheriffs can interfere with they’re competitors with no consequences.
Same with coroner. Let’s say you have a corrupt mayor and corrupt police department that would really like it if the coroner reported some deaths to be suicide or of natural causes.
But when everyone is in the same political party and colluding anyways, it doesn’t really work.
How do coroner run anyways? Like…what are their platforms?
I promise to provide accurate information about the cause of death.
Yeah, me too.
I heard his campaign slogan was, “Make Fargo Real.”
