4 Texas governor's debate moments everyone will be talking about

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : To raise teacher pay, he said he wanted to raise the state's share of public school funding, which he argued would lower the tax burden on property owners.
47% : For his part, O'Rourke laid out how he'd like to provide property tax relief, which included expanding Medicaid and legalizing marijuana to create a new stream of revenue for the state.
44% : ""There needs to be accountability for law enforcement at every level for not following the Columbine protocol," he said, pointing out investigations are underway right now for seven officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
43% : "What the state of Texas has done -- and we will continue to do -- is to drive down the ability of the local governments from being able to raise taxes."
30% : While Abbott said he would make school safety an emergency item for legislators to prioritize during the next legislative session, he addressed his claim that law enforcement misled him with the initial information they shared about the massacre, leading him to make that statement soon after the shooting that "it could have been worse.

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