Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott says a Democratic congresswoman's apparent swipe at his physical disability shows that his political opponents have "nothing to sell but hate," but the lawmaker says she wasn't making fun of his condition.

"You all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on, now," Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, said of Abbott at a Human Rights Campaign event. "And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey."