Hinojosa Meets With Over 70 Leaders in Corpus Christi, Demands Water for Citizens and Industry Pay Fair Share for Solutions

Texas gubernatorial candidate hears from residents, officials, and business leaders on all sides of the water crisis

Corpus Christi, TX — Gina Hinojosa traveled to Corpus Christi this week to meet with more than 70 community leaders, city officials, residents, and stakeholders on all sides of the city’s ongoing water crisis.

“This issue is not complicated: the people of Corpus Christi need to know that the water will be there when they turn on the faucet,” said Hinojosa. “Industry guzzles two thirds of the water and needs to pay its fair share, and now, Abbott wants the citizens to foot the bill so his donors can get more cheap water. It’s wrong for the governor to threaten a state takeover of any Texas city just to protect his donors.”

For more than a decade, Abbott has traveled to Corpus Christi for photo ops and ribbon cutting ceremonies while failing to solve the impending crisis. Industry now guzzles two-thirds of the city’s water while remaining exempt from emergency restrictions. Not only has Abbott stalled other solutions, when even the Republican-majority City Council pushed back on a billion-dollar desalination project that would have enriched Abbott’s allies, his chief of staff allegedly called a council member and threatened to cut all state funding. This is the Greg Abbott Corruption Tax at work: his donors get the water cheap, his insiders get the contracts, and Corpus Christi families are expected to foot the bill.

Check out more from the trip below where she talked with community leaders, city officials, residents, and stakeholders:

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