Another Texas police man skipped the city while the state was paralyzed by the severe winter weather, which erupted this week.
Republican State Representative Gary Gates is on fire after flying his private jet in Orlando, Florida, Wednesday as his Fort Bend County members struggled without water and electricity, the Houston Chronicle reported.
“It would have really been nice to have a state representative to help on the ground, work in a heating center, prepare food, etc. instead of flying immediately on a private plane when the situation got tough,” Brian said. Walz, one of Gates’ components, told the newspaper. “My neighbors failed to do so when his pipe exploded.”
Gates claimed that the pipes also exploded in his home, and 30% of his home was flooded, insisting on the way out that the trip became necessary due to his sick wife and daughter with special needs. .
“My wife is still recovering from an illness she has been battling for two weeks and my adult daughter’s room, which is mentally disabled and still lives with us, was flooded,” Gates told the newspaper.
But Fort Bend Star reporter Stefan Modrich he said on Twitter that Gates’ chief of staff told him the rep was on a business trip to Florida, meeting with a “major salesman.”
Gates, who owns several apartment buildings in Houston, told The Chronicle that he met with a salesman while he was in Florida, but only because he was already there.
He insisted he was able to control the Lonestar State power outage crisis from Florida.
Critics follow the revelation that Senator Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family while much of the state remained without electricity and water problems increased.
He returned the next day after being punished for skipping the city while the state was in crisis, and later admitted the trip was a mistake.