WEAR A DAMN MASK! SAVE A LIFE! TRUST SCIENCE AND MEDICAL EXPERTS! THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS FUCKING REAL!
GET VACCINATED! IF THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE VACCINES ARE AVAILABLE, GET IT WHILE IT'S STILL FREE! THE MEDICAL EXPERTS SAY THE VACCINES DO WORK AND IT REDUCES THE RISK OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION.
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE NOW! VOTE THESE DUMBASS LAWMAKERS OUT OF OFFICE! STOP SUPPORTING ALL FORMS OF EXTREMISM!
GIVE PUERTO RICO, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS! GRANT STATEHOOD TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MAKE IT THE DOUGLASS COMMONWEALTH.
GOOGLE'S BLOGGER IS STRAIGHT UP TRASH! THE BLOGGER INTERFACE IS A TOTAL DISASTER AND IT'S RIDICULOUS!
WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!
EXPECT MORE!
The last ditch effort by Texas Democrats to prevent a Karen law from passing.
They are planning to flee the state to prevent the Republican-led majority from passing legislation that would push for voting restrictions in the state. The governor, Karen Abbott has vowed revenge and will order the Texas rangers to wrangle the Democrats.
At least 51 members of the Texas House of Representatives fled the state and boarded two charter jets to Washington, DC to pressure the two Karens in the Democratic majority to end their gridlock on the filibuster. This is similar to the moves in 2003 when Democrats fled to Oklahoma to stop Republicans from pushing a partisan gerrymandering. The Democrats held their ground for at least five days before they returned back to the state.
The lawmakers are planning to stay in Washington, DC to push Democrats in the senate to do something now before the Republicans conquer the narrative. The stay could last up to three weeks and it could stop the state's plan on eliminating Sunday voting and cutting ballot boxes in urban centers like Houston, El Paso, Dallas and Austin. It would also allow the state legislature to draw more partisan districts to keep Republicans in power for another decade.
Texas Democrats are fighting for the soul of the nation.
The Democrats back the For The People Act which would make voting equal for all Americans is not backed by Republicans. Sen. Karen Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen. Karen Manchin (D-WV) joined the Democrats in getting pass 50 but the Republicans are also not willing to support the measure due to the legislation stopping partisan hijacking of electoral districts.
In an attempt to woo Republicans who felt he wasn't significant towards Washed Up 45, Abbott has vowed to make them pay for this. The Texas Department of Safety can arrest and prosecute lawmakers who violate a special session of Texas legislature. He slammed the move a "decision to break quorum of Texas Legislature and abandon the Texas State Capitol inflicts harm on the very Texans who elected them to serve."
He added, "As they fly across the country on cushy private planes, they leave undone issues that can help their districts and our state."
I wonder how he would reacted when the state's power grid nearly collapsed and the U.S. Senator, Karen Cruz decided to leave his home in Houston to travel to Cancun, Mexico. He was shamed to return and then tried to blame his daughters and wife for his decision. Over 200 people died in the winter storms that collapsed the power grid.
Abbott wants to use federal funds necessary to help the unemployed and streamline vaccination for COVID-19 to build a border wall. He will face a legal challenge by the U.S. government due to the fac that border security is federal business not state. Then of course, he is facing challenges from the far-right. Some believe he can't wheel his way out of the controversies he left the state in.
State Democrats lawmakers left their homes, families and their lives to protest injustice. They said this three-week mission to get Sinema and Manchin to join the Democrats in removing the filibuster is their mission.
They ain't playing games or vacationing in Mexico. This is all business for the Democrats.
State House Democrats have already staged one successful walkout to defeat election legislation. Members quietly left the House floor in the final minutes of the regular legislative session that ended in May, breaking quorum and forcing the GOP to adjourn without passing a voting bill. But the victory was always likely to be short-lived, as Republicans control both legislative chambers.
Washington bound for Texas Democrats,
Abbott kept his vow to call a special session, and Republicans didn't waste time. Lawmakers advanced a pair of voting measures — House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 1 — on Sunday after marathon committee hearings in both chambers, with the House hearing lasting nearly 24 hours. Members of the public waited hours to testify before both mochambers in the middle of the night. Floor votes had been expected as early as this week.
Both bills would add identification requirements for mail voting, ban some early voting options, create criminal penalties for breaking election codes and empower partisan poll watchers.
Although lawmakers did it briefly in May, breaking quorum is rare. In May 2003, more than 50 state House Democrats left the state to try to block a redistricting proposal supported by the Republican majority. After the plan ultimately passed the state House, Democratic state senators then fled, before a defector eventually reinstated the quorum.
The redistricting plan passed the Senate that October. The redistricting bill at the time was known as House Bill 3 — the same legislative name as one of current voting bills.
No comments:
Post a Comment