New York Times
Monday, June 5, 2017
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Your Monday Evening Briefing (email)
By INYOUNG KANG AND SANDRA STEVENSON
Good evening. Here’s the latest.
How conservative is conservative enough in Texas?
Greg Abbott is looking for the answer as the first new governor of the state in 14 years. He’s also the first to use a wheelchair. (A tree crushed him in 1984, while he was out for a jog.)
As he navigates battling factions of fellow Republicans, he takes their criticism in context: “When you have your life broken in half and realize that you’re going to be able to piece your life back together and overcome that, everything else in life is pretty easy to deal with.”
