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Greg Abbott: “A lawsuit was brought to shut [Tex am] down because they…”

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Greg Abbott: "James Talarico is a poor man's Beto O'Rourke."

Published | Video Starts at 04:21

… was an Islamic organization that tried to set up Tex am, which sounds a whole lot like Texas AM as a university where they had no authority to do so. A lawsuit was brought to shut [Tex am] down because they were trying to operate illegally. It comes in the aftermath of what happened in a Dallas suburb, Grand Prairie, where they tried to have a Muslim only event in a public park location and I order that it be shut down. (04:21–04:26)

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Asserts that a lawsuit was filed to shut down Tex am for operating illegally.

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