Connor Abernathie

"Our number one job is to provide for the common defense, and by allowing more services and benefits to a crew of people who are here illegally, you're just inviting more people to come. It's exactly what they want. I think it's abundantly clear. In fact, they're not even de…

The roof slopes dramatically towards the back, which Jerry says means you probably can fit 2 teenagers in the back but maybe not 2 full sized adults. However, 2 adults can sit very easily in the front with the car's comfortable seats.

When asked if he thinks that ERCOT will be a reliable source of power for Lubbock, Randy said that power outages are always to be expected, especially when it gets hot, but that he does believe it will be a reliable source.

"The Science Spectrum turns into a zoo for 4 days. Obviously there's no zoo in Lubbock, and so people get really excited about all these animals coming to town," Nesmith said.

"It's a head turner. There's no question about it," Jerry said.

Osborne explained that there will be several benefits, including improving the Lubbock workforce, since graduates of community colleges tend to say in the area they went to school. It will also provide an opportunity for more citizens, who cannot travel to Hockley county, to go to school more locall…

On the topic of socialism vs capitalism, Cornyn said, "What history has taught us is that socialism can't exist side by side with individual freedom. That the only way socialism can exist is with brute government force."

"Long term, the surface parking plan for Citizens Tower is not enough parking spaces. Now, could we proceed with the plan we have and have enough parking spaces when we open? Yes. But do we want to spend the money on that surface parking lot and then come back in 2 or 3 years and tear it back u…

I think it's going to be a great opportunity for the expo center to actually attract a lot of new out-of-towners to Lubbock and that's why it's going to pay back the hotel-motel tax that's going to be used to build it.

"It's not a daily driver. I mean, it's not an overly comfortable daily driver. It sits low to the ground. You know, there's a lot of things about it that I wouldn't want if it was my only car, but man, what a great weekend car this makes," Jerry said.