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    He argued they include private exchanges with lawyers, details about policy-making decisions and information that would reveal how the state entices companies to invest here. Releasing them to the public, he wrote, “would have a chilling effect on the frank and open discussion necessary for the decision-making process.”

    Holy shit, that’s definitely an argument in favor of making it public.

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      “If I can’t say ‘You take the taxpayer from the front and I’ll take them from the back’ then our communication will be chilled and it’ll take so much longer to screw you to the same degree 😩”

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    Isnt Ken Paxton’s wife divorcing him, on “biblical grounds”, as she puts it? Maybe Abbott, Musk, and Paxton are a throuple…

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    He using a personal email for that? Because I work for the state and I know ALL of my emails are subject to FOIA so I keep them clean of personal shit

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    The fact any of these bozos use digital comms (email, whatever) for anything sensitive is mind-boggling.

    Maybe it’s cause I’m a “digital native” (sort of?) or whatever they call it. Old enough to have a childhood without widespread internet, but young enough to learn it easily. Do these dudes just not have the internal switch that realizes “email is forever”???

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      Brought to you by “we kneel before kings” Texans.

      Turns.oit all hardcore bravado was nothing but cultist bullshit for the GOP

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    Dude! How gullible are the people of The Texas Newsroom that they’d give Greg Abbott money in advance knowing that the final arbiter of the question is Ken “not in jail for a long time on fraud charges because the prosecutor was his employee and worried about getting fired” fucking Paxton??

    Not saying that they had it coming or anything, but DAMN! Those dudes are untrustworthy by REPUBLICAN standards!