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  Greg Abbott makes it official: He’s running for governor of Texas
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Last EditedTX DEM  Jul 14, 2013 01:01pm
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News DateSunday, July 14, 2013 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAbbott looked out upon a downtown San Antonio plaza full of supporters on Sunday and saw an unbroken field to becoming Texas’ next governor.

On the anniversary of his greatest misfortune, the state attorney general proclaimed his highest ambition, to run for governor.

He promised to represent average Texan, pledging a continuation of a state and a platform full of guns, grit and greatness.

“Just as I’ve been a voice for liberty and the Constitution, I’ll be a voice for you, for children, homeowners and small business owners,” Abbott said.

Precisely 29 years ago Sunday, a windstorm felled a large oak tree on Abbott as he was out jogging in Houston.
The accident crushed his back, damaged his kidneys and pinned him forever to a wheelchair.

“It was a challenge that made me even being here highly improbable,” Abbott told the crowd.

But he said, it served to literally give him “a spine of steel.”

“After my accident, I realized our lives aren’t defined by how we’re challenged. Instead, we define our lives by how we respond to challenges,” Abbott said to huge cheers.

Abbott has won five statewide races, beginning in 1996 as Texas Supreme Court justice and since 2002 as attorney general. He begins with a towering $20 million campaign war chest, with support from social conservatives, the Republican establishment and in a state still dominated by Republican voters.
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