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Greg Abbott’s new residence awaits him and his family.<\/p>\n

It’s a nice place, rather old, but quite elegant. It needs a little fixing up.<\/p>\n

Abbott takes office in January as Texas’s next governor and the 134-year-old house into which he and his family will live never has had\u00a0resident quite like the governor-elect. He’s been confined to a wheelchair ever since he was paralyzed in a freak accident in Houston; a tree fell on him while he was jogging, breaking his back.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/12\/05\/governors-mansion-tweaked-abbott\/<\/p>\n

The Governor’s Mansion was updated after an arsonist torched the place in 2008 with a Molotov cocktail. More work needs to be done, as there need to be upgrades to the governor’s office in the Capitol Building across the street from the residence.<\/p>\n

There’s a certain slight touch of irony, of course, in\u00a0the expense the state is incurring to accommodate the governor.<\/p>\n

The state must comply with a federal<\/em> law that requires accessibility for people with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted in 1991 during the George H.W. Bush administration. It’s a wonderful piece of legislation that recognizes the needs of those who are confined to wheelchairs, or who have difficulty accessing public facilities.<\/p>\n

Why the touch of irony? Texas is angry at the federal government these days. Outgoing Gov. Rick Perry has made quite a lot of noise railing, ranting and raving about federal “overreach.” The new governor has just filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its handling of immigration policy.<\/p>\n

The ADA doesn’t fall into the category of laws that Texas officials want to challenge. It’s there for a good reason: to help disabled Americans gain the access they deserve to public buildings.<\/p>\n

Good luck with the repairs, Gov. Abbott.<\/p>\n

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Greg Abbott’s new residence awaits him and his family. It’s a nice place, rather old, but quite elegant. It needs a little fixing up. Abbott takes office in January as Texas’s next governor and the 134-year-old house into which he and his family will live never has had\u00a0resident quite like the governor-elect. He’s been confined … Continue reading Governor's new digs need some fixin' up<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,18],"tags":[143,2006,3951,4589,4628,4747,4760],"class_list":["post-7357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-ada","tag-greg-abbott","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas-capitol","tag-texas-governors-mansion","tag-the-americans-with-disabilities-act","tag-the-george-h-w-bush-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}