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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   Billy Bob Magee wrote:   
      
   >He's a weak, crippled old man.  Hope he isn't ass raped too much when   
   >he's behind bars.   
   >   
   >How Gov. Greg Abbott won millions and helped stop Texans from doing the   
   >same Forty years ago this week, a tree fell on Greg Abbott, paralyzing   
   >the future governor from the waist down. He sued for damages and won   
   >millions—and then helped stop Texans from doing the same.   
   >   
   >Forty years ago this week, a 26-year-old law school graduate named Greg   
   >Abbott was out jogging on the streets of River Oaks when a tree snapped   
   >and fell, paralyzing him from the waist down. Abbott, in the midst of   
   >studying for the bar, sued the tree owner and later the tree-trimming   
   >company that had neglected the 75-year-old tree. He won a   
   >multimillion-dollar settlement, the details of which remained private for   
   >years.   
   >   
   >Decades later, Abbott campaigned in support of tort reform curtailing   
   >"frivolous" lawsuits and won. Abbott's critics claimed that he helped   
   >usher in a Texas significantly less friendly to plaintiffs seeking   
   >damages like the ones Abbott won. Looking back on the case 40 years   
   >later, Don Riddle, Abbott's personal injury lawyer at the time, agrees   
   >that Texas has changed.   
   >   
   >"It would be next to impossible to get the kind of settlement we got,"   
   >Riddle told Chron Monday. Tort reform, or as Riddle calls it, "tort   
   >deform," has severely capped the kind of damages individuals can seek   
   >out, and Riddle doesn't see that changing in Texas anytime soon. So how   
   >did we get here, and how did Abbott come to turn against the legal   
   >mechanism that made him millions?   
   >The Accident   
   >   
   >Abbott's accident was more than just a wayward tree branch. The falling   
   >tree totaled two cars and broke Abbott's back and some of his ribs,   
   >resulting in months of surgery and recovery and lifelong paralysis in his   
   >legs. Yet to embark on his future, lucrative law career, Abbott had no   
   >health insurance or even a paycheck to cover the medical expenses.   
   >   
   >The injuries left Abbott with two steel rods in his spine. Although   
   >debilitating, Abbott has since turned the accident into a lesson of   
   >perseverance on the campaign trail. As his campaign website says, "While   
   >some politicians talk about having a spine of steel, Governor Abbott   
   >actually has none."   
   >   
      
   Shooting Americans of all kinds continues to the the goal of a good, RKBA   
   USA.   There's no need to single out blacks.   
      
   If we didn't have guns to shoot Americans, who would we shoot now that   
   Trump has deported all the foreigners?   
      
      
   Trump is sexy.   Just bend him over the coffee table and ram it in, no   
   lube.   
      
      
   He's my type.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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