Abbott spent hours at fundraiser after Uvalde shooting
Associated PressAUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said that he stopped at a campaign fundraiser following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde and “let people know” he couldn’t stay, but a newspaper reports that he was there for nearly three hours. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw has called law enforcement’s slow and chaotic response to the shooting an “abject failure.” McCraw has said that three minutes after the gunman entered the school, enough officers and firepower had been deployed to stop him. “And I wanted them to know what happened and get back to Austin so that I could continue my collaboration with Texas law enforcement to make sure that all the needs were being met here in the Uvalde area.” Abilene, where Abbott had given a news conference about wildfires, is about 220 miles northwest of Austin, while Huntsville is about 150 miles east of the state capital. “The governor’s description of his movements that day are accurate.” The day after the shooting, Abbott praised what he said was a swift response by law enforcement officers who “showed amazing courage by running toward gunfire.” He later said that he had been “misled,” and was “livid” about it.
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