Texas has this big pot of money that the governor can basically decide to hand out to businesses
as kind of an incentive to get them to move to Texas. Greg Abbott has doled out millions
of dollars from the fund, but his largest grant so far went to a pharmaceutical company
called McKesson. "McKesson is a great company." They are a distributor of pharmaceutical products
including a number of opioid painkillers. But in the last year or so, as the opioid
epidemic has really been front and center, this grant has really come under fire.
One year later here we are and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating McKesson
and several other drug distributors and manufacturers over whether they played a role in fueling
the opioid crisis by flooding the market with drugs and not tracking suspicious orders.
So it puts Abbott in an awkward position, because a year ago he said that McKesson is
a great company, great for Texas and great for Texas jobs. But at the same time,
if Texas ends up suing McKesson and the other companies they might be arguing that the companies
have cost Texas money by saddling us with costs related to the opioid crisis and also cost lives.
These companies which are bringing jobs and expanding the economy, but for
a politician it can come back to bite them, right? If the next year, actually, you find yourself
needing to sue them to recoup money that you're arguing that they've cost you.
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