Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott‘s newest 30-second web ad features a man who says he sold his Houston car wash business because of the cost of complying with Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. In the ad, which promotes Abbott’s fight against the health care law, the businessman said that Abbott was the right person to lead Texas.

Edgar Walters worked at the Tribune from 2013 to 2020, most recently covering health and human services. Before that, he had a political reporting fellowship with the Berliner Zeitung, a daily newspaper...