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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?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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