O’Rourke Says Texas Is ‘Nearing a Failed State’

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) “blamed Republican leaders in Texas for what he says was a government failure to prepare for widespread power outages resulting from a massive winter storm that swept across the state this week,” The Hill reports.

Said O’Rourke: “So much of this was avoidable. Going back to the deregulation of our electric grid here in Texas, which has actually created an incentive to not weatherize or protect against these events.”

He added: “The energy capital of North America cannot provide enough energy to warm and power people’s homes. We are nearing a failed state in Texas. And it has nothing to do with God or natural disasters. It has everything to do with those in positions of public trust who have failed us.”