Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, announced on Tuesday that he had submitted his resignation in response to the backlash over his Facebook rant about those seeking assistance from the government amid the recent spate of power outages caused by a brutal snowstorm that has left people without electricity and heat.
GQP Compassionate Conservativism
I think he confused the government with libertarian billionaires. Kind of forgot “we the people”.
YEAH! Build your own damn power lines! Your taxes are for my rele… err DONORS!
Its just how they think, he said it out loud.
4200 people. A great many below the poverty line. Median family income $27,000. The perfect type of person a weather disaster harms most. And just the sort of people a Republican picks on.
There’s a whole shit-ton of loudmouthed blustery mediocre white-men-failing-upward municipal officials in TX who believe exactly the same kind of thing. I suspect this dumb son of a bitch was drunk and Teh Realz Thoughts came out ('specially because his non-apology-apology was equally stupid).
Colorado City TX is midway between Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin oil, site of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) and Abilene, former cow town and home of Abilene Christian University (actually a very good school). It’s kind of a shithole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_City,_Texas
You give him too much credit. He didn’t say the “week will perish,” but rather the “week will parish,” which for a moment made me wonder if he was a Texas church leader.
Seriously though, can you imagine being so full of bitter bile? I sent a copy of his tweets to my kids, both in Europe, just so they would know what they are missing back in the U S.
Texans learn the meaning of “libertarianism” and “rugged individualism.” So where’s the rejoicing about how they “drowned the gummint in the bathtub” now?
"government “owes you NOTHING!” Then stop making us pay taxes.
Yeah! What do you think the government is for? Doing stuff for people? Losers!
Someone has a generator…
…and no, you can’t tap into his.
Yep, “the weak[1] will perish!” certainly conveys the idea that lazy able-bodied people don’t deserve handouts.
[1] edited for literacy
And especially in Texas, where the main chunk of individual funding for government is property taxes, yeah, the gummint definitely owes you livable infrastructure for the property whose value it is taxing you on.
I wonder whether texans will remember any of this by the next election.
What exactly do these big brave politicians from Texas think their job IS??? We have THIS blowhard foaming at the mouth about ‘lazy’ moochers and Abbott screaming it’s all AOC’s fault for talking about the ‘Green New Deal’ when in fact all that BS is just a deflection for doing jack.
They don’t have income taxes in Texas.
Boyd posted a typo-ridden screed on Facebook asserting that the government “owes you NOTHING!” during the crisis.
Yeah! What did they ever do for the government? It’s like they think the government is there to serve the people. Sheeesh!
BINGO! That’s the primary idea endorsed by his primary constituency, the donor class.
Like so many elected Texas officials—doesn’t care and believes small government will be the savior of his version of America—hopefully Texans still clinging to the idea that Texas is some sort of miracle of “independence” will wake up from their Fox-fueled stupor and quit electing people like this guy and Abbott, Patrick, Cornyn, Cruz et al.
Don’t forget Hardin-Simmons! 
“Between Midland-Odessa and Abilene” is pretty much the Mariana Trench of Texas.
Well, these polar inversions happen about every 8 to 10 years, so empirical evidence says… no.