Flight records indicate one of the governors at a Texas press event may have flown there on a jet owned by Gothams, a border contractor.
On Sunday, 13 Republican governors flocked to Eagle Pass to stand in support of Governor Greg Abbott’s border security showdown with the feds. It appears one of them may have hitched a ride on a private jet owned by an Austin contractor that has cashed in on the taxpayer windfall generated by Operation Lone Star.
The multiple-leg journey to Eagle Pass totaled about 8 hours, flight records show. The jet flew back to Nashville after Abbott’s press conference before returning to Austin Sunday night. The gubernatorial shindig in Eagle Pass was just the latest example of how Abbott’s incessant promotion of his border agenda has turned the state government into an arm of his campaign politicking machine.has been funded with several billion dollars in state taxpayer funds—a large part of which have gone to private contractors hired to help run the immigration enforcement regime.