On a sticky Texas morning, Kimberly Mata-Rubio is lacing up her running shoes ahead of two races she is running in Uvalde in tribute to her daughter Lexi, who was killed in the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
First up is a charity run honoring Lexi’s life. Then it’s back to a tougher contest: Campaigning to become mayor of Uvalde, a town still divided after one of America’s deadliest mass shootings and a botched police response that is still under investigation.
“One thing I hear with all of my children, and it echoes my own belief, is that right now Lexi’s legacy is our priority and we just want to honor her with action,” Mata-Rubio said.
Consider that sometimes there are more voters who are unaffected by the people and policies they vote for, than voters who are affected.
I imagine in the case of Uvalde, there are more grumpy senior citizens who don’t give a shit about the lives of children than there are parents of school age children – or at least more voters in the former category than the latter.
Don’t forget that voter suppression exists, too. Just because the same shit heels got voted back in doesn’t mean that the people who were most hurt didn’t try to do something about it. Don’t give up your sympathy because of what it looks like to you at a distance.
i’ve learned first hand that not even the liberals in austin give a rats ass about voter suppression in texas; so she must be doing this for herself because she’s not going to have an impact in uvalde and much less for the rest of the state.
Well if it happened in Austin then it must apply to everyone and everywhere else. Makes perfect sense.
Bullshit. It pisses off the liberals and moderates. Some may have given up and are convinced they can’t do anything to change it, but no one likes it.