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June 30, 2022      7:15 PM

Uvalde Mayor favors Texas House approach to investigating Robb Elementary School shooting, dismisses Texas Senate hearing

During a special meeting of the Uvalde City Council, Mayor Don McLaughlin voiced an appreciation for the way Texas House leadership is handling their probe into the massacre at Robb Elementary School. Mayor McLaughlin, who not unlike Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has been a semi-regular guest on Fox News Channel, added that the Texas Senate’s public hearing in Austin was of little value.

The only witness before the Senate, he said, was Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw.

Mayor McLaughlin said he appreciated the closed-door proceedings of the House, "because they're trying to get witnesses to be more candid to talk and tell their story more truthfully than they would in a public setting."

But in the Senate, McLaughlin said “You had nobody from Uvalde, nobody from anywhere else. The DPS commander is the only one who spoke."

It is also becoming apparent now that many of the people who live in Uvalde are also aggravated to have seen the DPS commander presenting his most detailed account how the tragedy unfolded to lawmakers before anyone in the local community was given that information.

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