AUSTIN (AP) — A county administrator in Texas is apologizing for saying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “hates trees because one fell on him.”
The Texas Tribune reports that the comment made Friday by Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt, a Democrat, during a panel discussion was first reported in a tweet by the online magazine The Federalist.
Abbott, a Republican, has been paralyzed from the waist down since 1984 when a tree fell on him in Houston while he was jogging.
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