Local civic groups are speaking out after heated rhetoric during a Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting

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Rhetoric has escalated amid an exchange between two elected officials during Commissioners Court in Tarrant County.

The officials' exchange during the Aug. 16 commissioners' court meeting came before the commissioners ultimately approved hiring political consultant Noah Betz.FORT WORTH, Texas — Civil rights groups are weighing in on the heated rhetoric between Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare and Commissioner Alisa Simmons during a Tarrant County Commissioners CourtO'Hare and Simmons' exchange during the Aug.

"That kind of attitude that demeans women, that takes them back to the time when they could not vote and was the property of their husbands," Jones said.

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