Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick touts Texas COVID approach, says CPAC should stay in Lone Star State
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) should stay in Texas permanently, as he touted the state's COVID-19 approach that conference Chairman Matt Schlapp said was part of the reason he chose to host an extra conference in Dallas.
CPAC Dallas is a first for the American Conservative Union, the organization that runs the conferences. Usually, CPAC is a once-per-year event. The first this year was in Orlando, Florida. But Chairman Matt Schlapp said that he wanted to recognize Texas as well and decided to do that by bringing a second 2021 conference to Dallas. "During CPAC Orlando with [Florida] Gov. [Ron] DeSantis' leadership, you know, they opened up Florida," Schlapp told Fox News. "When we got back from CPAC Orlando we said, look, Texas is the next big state, they're open. We should reward them and we should do another big conference. We didn't know how big it would be, but it's going to be a big one."More Related News