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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