Texas

The Club for Growth, Ronald Reagan, and the whole Republican party turned "No New Taxes" into their idol. They made anyone running as a R to sign their pledge – or they were primaried and defeated.

Their propaganda machine made it their party brand. Then it was enacted at local levels, starving their own people of the infrastructure to keep their roads well-maintained, bridges repaired, education well-funded, and in this case with a functioning weather alert system. They'll never make the connection, unfortunately.

The Club for Growth's founder, Grover Norquist, infamously wanted to shrink government down to the size to where it could be drowned in a bathtub. I always wondered if he was part of a sleeper cell. He talked a good game of being fiercely anti-communist, but what he was all about was weakening every aspect of America's strength. Maybe not our military, but everything that made American life strong and prosperous. Our innovation that brought about prosperity was taxpayer funded much of the time, and our health research.

Blood on their hands.