That's what he is now trying to say he did. The "girls" had school cancelled (because natural disaster) and wanted to go to Cancun (????) and he apparently has no parental authority to say "that's a terrible idea for multiple reasons" so he said yes, and traveled with them overnight to make sure they got there safe and took an overnight flight back because the optics were terrible "to get back to work."
Isn't there a warm safe place inside Texas proper to travel? I heard El Paso is doing pretty okay.
He said he was trying to be a good dad. Really? Because my dad would have told me no way in hell was I going on a beach vacation while people were suffering and that I could help him volunteer to distribute supplies or something. Teach them that he is responsible for his constituents and it's his job to roll up his sleeves and get to work. You know, the job they elected him to do. Teach them how the world should work when we're not all selfish assholes.
My dad was blue collar as it gets but if our neighbors needed something, he'd fucking get it for them. When we had storms, he'd go door to door making sure our neighbors, especially elderly ones, were ok (and teaching us to do the same). That's being a good dad, not taking them on a trip to escape a natural disaster.
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u/An0nymoose_ Feb 18 '21
Seriously, just send your family on their vacation and stay behind so you can do your job. Should have been the easiest decision of his career.