Austin and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
☑️300k+ of y'all lost power
☑️ 10% still w/o power
☑️Mangled messaging about the outages
☑️Major air disaster narrowly averted
☑️Thousands of lost/damaged trees
☑️Hundreds of non-functional stoplights
☑️Mayor gets COVID
NEW: Just spoke with @austinenergy VP of field operations Elton Richards who told me the 6pm Friday expectation for restoring power to everyone is doubtful.
He’s not comfortable giving a time frame.
With 2 ER physicians as parents, none of my 4 children will ever play tackle football. I said what I said. And I live in Texas where they’re in full pads by age 7.
“I learned that SERVICE was far more important than performative none sense like being seen in the same pew every Sunday or writing “Christian” in your Twitter bio and using it as a shield to target and marginalize already-marginalized people.” (required viewing!)
Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community...in a fundraising email, for herself.
Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won't.