The freaks are coming out in force in Texas:
Texas GOP Chairman Allen West announced Sunday he is running for governor, challenging fellow Republican Greg Abbott.
The announcement was made during at appearance by West at Sojourn Church in Carrollton, where the former Florida congressman played a video launching his campaign.
“I’ve not been in elected political office for about a decade, but I can no longer sit on the sidelines and see what has happened in these United States of America and ... the place that I call home," West said in the video, which was preceded by West reading aloud the Declaration of Independence to the churchgoers gathering on July Fourth. [snip]
West did not directly mention Abbott in his remarks Sunday in the church or in the video. West used the video to sketch out a platform focused on shielding the state's energy resources against the Green New Deal — the sweeping climate change proposal pushed by some Democrats in Washington, D.C. — securing the state's border "to ensure that Texas is for Texans" and combatting sex trafficking.
Stay away from Texas, Matt Gaetz!
Abbott is also being challenged by millionaire former State Sen. Don Huffines.
West has an unenviable record of failing upward. A one- term Congressman from Florida (!), West relocated to Texas where he became the state GQP chairman, only to resign after a year. Prior to that, his far right "think tank" folded after 3 years. Prior to his political career, West was stripped of his Army command after pleading guilty to assaulting and threatening to kill an Iraqi detainee in 2003. He also posted about "exterminating" Muslims in 2017, so there's a continuing theme befitting a bigot and a nut.
Following President Biden's election, he suggested Texas could secede and become a republic (fact check: nope!), because he's an American patriot, don't you know.
If only West could secede and drift off to an appropriate undisclosed and unreachable location.
