Runaway Texas Democrat slammed for call to let schools impose mask mandates

A Democratic Texas State Representative accused the state’s Gov. Greg Abbott of playing “political games” with state facemask mandates and was widely panned on social media for being one of the maskless lawmakers who fled to Washington, D.C.

Howard’s tweet was accompanied by an article from the editorial board of the Austin American-Statesman calling on Abbott to lift his ban on school districts imposing mask mandates. In another tweet, Howard wrote, "We need to follow the science here. Texas needs to change course and allow for universal mask-wearing to prevent spread of the highly contagious delta variant, esp as children under 12 cannot get vaccinated yet."