GOP lawmaker to file censure resolution against Crockett over Abbott comments

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 5:37 AM EDT, Wed March 26, 2025


CNN — Republican Rep. Randy Weber is planning to introduce a resolution to censure Rep. Jasmine Crockett over recent comments the Democratic congresswoman made about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, according to a draft of the resolution shared with CNN.

Weber is seeking the punishment in response to Crockett referring to Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as “Governor Hot Wheels” and a “hot a** mess” at a Human Rights Campaign event in Los Angeles over the weekend.

In a statement on X, Crockett said her remarks weren’t in reference to Abbott’s use of a wheelchair. “I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable,” Crockett posted. “Literally, the next line I said was that he was a ‘Hot A** Mess,’ referencing his terrible policies. At no point did I mention or allude to his condition,” she added.

Abbott was partially paralyzed after a tree fell on him while he was jogging at the age of 26. CNN has reached out to Abbott and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office for comment.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/politics/jasmine-crockett-greg-abbott-censure-effort/index.html

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Democrats should file a censure resolution against Rep. Keith Self (R) (TX-3) for misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride (D) (DE-at large) or against Bozo Boebert for calling Rep. Al Green's cane a "pimp cane". It works all ways.

[yardwork]

1. But everything Trump says is fine?

I'm glad she said this, just to expose GOP hypocrisy.

[NotHardly]

8. Trump & Abbot are both shit-weasels

[groundloop]

2. I'm sure magats are perfectly fine with tRump mocking a disabled reporter.

[claudette]

5. Why stoop to his level?

Below pond scum

[BumRushDaShow]

11. The "high road" no longer works

Sometimes a bully needs to get "a taste of his own medicine". It often only needs to happen once. It's an "alpha" thing. You keep retreating and they will keep bullying.

[Zorro]

15. The only thing a bully understands is a punch in the nose

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Basically.

Sometimes, enough is enough.

[claudette]

24. But disabilities

are off limits in my view. There are lots of other insults that would have worked. sorry. She was wrong in my opinion

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Abbott is an ass and never cared about anyone else

disability or not. He's an evil SOB. One needs to hurl at his "boss" at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as well -

[claudette]

41. Dear Lord

How can anyone justify such behavior. Abbott may be a butt yet that doesn’t mean his disability should be mocked

And posting Rump’s bad behavior doesn’t make Crockett’s right. You are simply equating them. Not a good look for her

[BumRushDaShow]

47. Your concern is noted

If you have ever followed and/or listened to Jasmine Crockett - a TX Rep. - you will soon discover what "her style" is and like many Texans, she pulls no punches.

[bluestarone]

40. She was right

In my opinion. (so we both are entitled right?)

[claudette]

42. She was wrong

in my opinion. We’ll just leave it at that.

[Fullduplexxx]

13. This reasoning is how we got here

[rich7862]

28. Fullduplexxx, Amen, you are absolutely right!!!!!!

[Skittles]

60. I agree

it is unprofessional

[Basso8vb]

3. Fuck these fucking hypocritical asshole magats.

This is what high school bullies do. It's way past time to punch them collectively in the nose.

They can dish it out but they sure can't take it.

Fucking snowflakes.

[claudette]

25. What exactly

Did he say or do that prompted her to insult his disability?

[Basso8vb]

53. Oh, please.

Go clutch your pearls elsewhere.

Abbott is killing Texas women.

[rich7862]

29. I spell magat maggots

[claudette]

4. My question is

WHY would she say such a thing about a person’s disability? Just because Rump did it doesn’t make it ok

[EYESORE 9001]

6. She wasn't referring to his disability

according to the article, which cites her own reasonable explanation. That alone should suffice, but instead you suggest she was mocking him.

[claudette]

7. Yes

In my opinion it was given the fact that he has to use a wheel chair to get around. Giving it a “cute” name of hot wheels doesn’t change the mockery there. What was her lame excuse for such an insult? There is no reasonable explanation in my view unless he himself referred to his chair as such

[Polybius]

18. It certainly sounded like she was referring to the wheelchair

The explanation is surprising.

[claudette]

46. Question

WHY does a person need a wheelchair? Answer. He’s DISABLED. Period.

[Polybius]

59. Agreed

I agree with you. She shouldn't have said it.

[bronxiteforever]

9. Randy my boy this is more your style.

[Norrrm]

12. Donald's style

[AmericaUnderSiege]

10. Republicans have no shame.

They practically suggest euthanasia of any non-millionaire with a medical condition, but crawl up on a cross if someone fails to sympathize with their situation.

Two-faced moral schizos and sadistic little dog-kickers, the lot of them, but if you laugh at them for any reason, you're a monster and they know why the caged bird sings.

GOP, the Punchable Face Party.

[forgotmylogin]

19. Censuring her will work as well as it does against MTG and Boebert.

The equivalent of a "sternly-worded letter".

[AmericaUnderSiege]

20. They're not trying to silence her. They're just wallowing in how perverse they are.

Republicans don't do things with the expectation of a result. That would be too rational. They just get a bully's pleasure out of Satanic hypocrisy. Lying, absurd posturing, and making decent people despair makes their day. Makes their tiny wieners hard.

[rickyhall]

14. You're both Texans. She said nothing you ain't heard before.

[Zorro]

16. Not the first time I've heard Abbott referred to as "Hot Wheels"

[Paladin]

27. That's been an Abbott nickname for years, here in Texas. (nt)

[claudette]

48. Still doesn't

make it right. Does he call himself that?

[Owens]

21. Funny how Weber says nothing when Trump calls everyone names?

[Alice B.]

22. If all our D congresspeople were on the same page,

They could each introduce a resolution for an individual, offensive comment made by an R. I’m sure we could come up with enough. Do it simultaneously and en masse.

I say facetiously but it makes a nice daydream.

[hlthe2b]

23. Considering what horrendous policies and defunding Abott has enacted against the disabled, the

hypocrisy is ridiculous. Why is the media not covering THAT?

[GoCubsGo]

35. Not just Abbott.

The very House Republicans demanding this censure have been attacking and gutting every law and policy meant to help the disabled. They're trying to erase them altogether under this "anti-DEI" bullshit. The hypocrisy is WAY beyond ridiculous. How many disabled people are about to lose their Social Security disability while these motherfuckers happily let it happen?

[claudette]

26. What a lame

excuse/explanation for her insensitive insult

[BumRushDaShow]

32. What does "Hot Wheels" imply to you?

To me, it reminds me of 1968 -

(got a basic set for Christmas at some point with a piece of track that was missing the clip to make the "loop" )

[claudette]

36. To me?

Nothing. To someone in a wheelchair? Mockery

[BumRushDaShow]

44. It's been rarely if ever used as a "mock" for the wheelchair bound

If anything, you have paralympic participants who excel in their "hot wheels".



Abbott and the party that he belongs to, doesn't give a shit about the disabled or even vets - GOP Attacks Democrat Who Lost Both Legs In Iraq For 'Not Standing' For Vets

[claudette]

49. Dear Lord

She meant it as an insult to a disabled person. Why are some making this out to be an okay thing by comparing it to irrelevant cases? I do not get it

[BumRushDaShow]

52. Why are you making that assumption?

Apparently you don't "get it".

[Quiet Em]

33. The word "lame" is considered insensitive

Greg Abbott has been called that nickname for years. He knows about it. Some of his supporters even use it. I'm not saying it's right, but if you are going to call her out for it you shouldn't be using insensitive descriptions to do so.

Greg Abbott is a cruel, evil, heinous man. He doesn't treat women as equal human beings, he doesn't treat immigrants as equal human beings, and he's terrible on disability issues.

[claudette]

37. Oh please

How utterly ridiculous to think that was meant as an insult to the person in the wheelchair. Get a grip and stop twisting it like a pretzel

He may be terrible but he is still disabled. Attack his awfulness not his disability. It is wrong. If you’ve ever had a disabled family member taunted you would not think Crockett was right

[IzzaNuDay]

61. I guess in the year Abbott is voted out of office --

we can’t call him a lame duck, eh?

[sop]

30. Woodward's book quoted Trump about Jeff Sessions: "This guy is mentally retarded. He's this dumb Southerner."

Trump also referred to Vice President Harris as “retarded" during the campaign, and Elon regularly insults people by calling them "retards" on Twitter.

[GoCubsGo]

34. The ones trying to eliminate Social Security Disability,

and gut the Americans With Disabilities Act have their tighty whiteys in a bunch because she called that despicable bag of shit "Hotwheels"? Are you fucking kidding me? GOPers are forever the biggest goddamn fucking hypocrites in the universe.

[claudette]

38. So why

behave like them and use insulting language against a disabled person?

[GoCubsGo]

39. Because that is all they understand.

This "high road" you speak of has gotten us NOWHERE with these assholes, other than constantly stepped on. What Abbott and his ilk are actually doing to disabled people is MASSIVELY more insulting to them than is calling that piece of shit "Hot Wheels."

[claudette]

50. Sorry

Stooping to their level involving a disabled person is not the answer

[GoCubsGo]

54. LOL!!! This isn't even remotely close to "their level."

Get back to me when the Dems start gutting disability protections, and cutting disabled people off of their Social Security disability payments.

[Karasu]

45. Anyone who STILL considers themselves a Republican after the last 10 years has no fucking right to police anyone else's

language about fucking anything.

You don't get to be the "fuck your feelings" brigade AND the fucking morality police at the same fucking time. Fucking choose already, you hypocritical fascist fucks.

[JBTaurus83]

51. Who gives a rat's ass?

Pointless and does nothing. Waste of time to distract from their Signal fuck up. She should get a copy of whatever document they record this on and wipe her ass with it.

[JI7]

55. Right wing white men must not be criticized

especially if you are a non white female.

[BigDemVoter]

56. I hope there will be no apologies.

[Zorro]

57. Here's some background on Governor Hot Wheels

How Gov. Greg Abbott won millions and helped stop Texans from doing the same

Forty years ago this week, a tree fell on Greg Abbott, paralyzing the future governor from the waist down. He sued for damages and won millions—and then helped stop Texans from doing the same.

By Brooke Kushwaha, News Reporter
July 15, 2024

Forty years ago this week, a 26-year-old law school graduate named Greg Abbott was out jogging on the streets of River Oaks when a tree snapped and fell, paralyzing him from the waist down. Abbott, in the midst of studying for the bar, sued the tree owner and later the tree-trimming company that had neglected the 75-year-old tree. He won a multimillion-dollar settlement, the details of which remained private for years.

Decades later, Abbott campaigned in support of tort reform curtailing "frivolous" lawsuits and won. Abbott's critics claimed that he helped usher in a Texas significantly less friendly to plaintiffs seeking damages like the ones Abbott won. Looking back on the case 40 years later, Don Riddle, Abbott's personal injury lawyer at the time, agrees that Texas has changed.

"It would be next to impossible to get the kind of settlement we got," Riddle told Chron Monday. Tort reform, or as Riddle calls it, "tort deform," has severely capped the kind of damages individuals can seek out, and Riddle doesn't see that changing in Texas anytime soon. So how did we get here, and how did Abbott come to turn against the legal mechanism that made him millions?

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/greg-abbott-tree-lawsuit-explained-19574621.php

Sorry...but this POS doesn't get a pass just because he's a disabled POS.

[King_Black_Mamba_248]

58. The 10 moronic & traitorous House Democrats

One of those 10 moronic & traitorous House Democrats that voted for censure against The Honorable US House of Representative Al Green should have already submitted their censure bills on Keith Self, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert weeks ago, but they are not people of morals, character, and integrity!!