Patrick Decries New American Slavery
and Says He'd Destroy CEOs in Debate

Capitol Inside
May 6, 2021

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick declared on Thursday that Democratic President Joe Biden has brought slavery back to America and that he would destroy any corporate executive who dared to debate him on the Texas elections that's set for a vote in the state House today.

Speaking to a pair of Fox News anchors on the America's Newsroom show, Patrick raised his own lofty bar on shock value rhetoric when he contended that people were flooding into the country illegally to try to find jobs so they could pay money they owe to Mexican drug cartels for getting them here.

"So modern day slavery is taking place at the hands of the Biden administration by enslaving these people to the cartel who come to America to work.

The Republican state Senate president failed to point out that the same migrants pay a variety of taxes from the income they earn here to the state. But Patrick suggested that he wasn't trying to sell a pig in a poke with "hyperbole" when he likened Biden administration border policies to those in southern states like Texas when Black people were bought and sold at the marketplace after being captured in Africa before the Civil War.

"This is what's going on," Patrick insisted. "It's happening. We see it every day. We know it's happening."

Patrick's beefed up portrayal of the White House as a knowing accomplice to the narcotics trade and human trafficking with the assertion that the Biden administration had been engaging in a cover-up by "totally concealing" all of the information that it has on the current migrant surge at the border. Patrick said federal officials are allowing drug lords to keep women and children who are sex slaves in stash houses in Houston.

Patrick and other major GOP leaders in Texas like Governor Greg Abbott had been mum on a major spike in illegal border crossings in Texas three years ago when Republican Donald Trump was the president. Patrick has been Trump's state campaign chairman in Texas.

Patrick followed up the claims on the new American slavery in the exchange with an insult to the intelligence of "woke" corporations that oppose the voting restrictions measure that the GOP has promoted under the banner of election integrity.

"They know nothing about what they're talking about," Patrick told the Fox talk show duo in a reference to the major Texas-based companies that have depicted the Republicans' election legislation as racist. "I'll debate them anytime - and I'll destroy them.

Patrick's unbridled confidence on his ability to defend the elections security in a rhetorical duel with CEOs is intriguing in light of the fact that the lieutenant governor rarely if ever agrees to appear on news shows on television stations that aren't Fox News.

Patrick knows that no corporate official has anything to gain by debating him on the elections bill that's contained in Senate Bill 7 and House Bill 6, which is set for consideration on the lower chamber floor on Thursday. It might come as a shock, however, if Patrick would agree to debate any one of the Democratic state lawmakers here on the voting measure in any public forum.

Patrick and the other Republicans in the Legislature have pitched the legislation as a proactive attempt to prevent voter fraud in Texas. But the lieutenant governor didn't mention in his latest defense of the bill that he'd conducted an investigation into voter fraud that came up empty last fall at the same time Trump was trying to overthrow the democratic American election with wild conspiracies and lies that culminated in the cop-killing riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

 

 

 

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