Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Wednesday afternoon said that city officials are canceling the Texas Republican Party’s in-person convention originally scheduled for next week.
What the mayor really wanted to say was that the Livestock Show and Rodeo was probably a lot harder for him to cancel than the upcoming shitshow the GOP was all set to put on.
People wanted to see those blue ribbon steer and grand prize pigs. Not those damn circus clowns with their orange-wigged elephant buttons.
Kudos to Mayor Turner. This was, without a doubt, the correct decision. Houston is in a horrible state right now, and the fact that he had to do it for the Republicans, who inexplicably refused to cancel on their own, is a disgrace. You know they know better because their top two guys aren’t planning on giving in-person speeches.