A Karen package deal in Texas. The state wants to pass voting restrictions that hurt Black and Latino voters. A group that had almost took Texas away from Republicans.
The thinking of white nationalists, their enablers of color and stupid agitators in the junk food media.
We allow you to carry guns without licenses or without restrictions. So there's going to be more Joe Horns around killing you for stealing your neighbor's television. Hey, we'll have more mass shootings in areas but at least one person will be armed to shot.
We ban Sharia law because we fear that Muslim terrorists want to turn Texas into an Islamic State. America was founded on Christian beliefs. We stand with Israel too!
We ban people from wearing mask in public. You know the coronavirus was made up to hurt Donald J. Trump. Don't you know that the coronavirus is just a milder flu!
We ban transgender people from playing sports in schools and universities. After all, you are biologically born by gender. There is no such thing as transwoman or transman. You were a man and a woman. You can't tell GOD that you're a woman when you were born a man.
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| Texas Democrats walked out of session killing the bill. They vow to do all they can to stop Republicans from signing off voter suppression laws. |
We ban you from voting on Sunday. You should be in church. Government should not be interfering on Sundays anyway. We want to prevent voter fraud from happening in Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Texarkana, Lubbock, Wichita Falls, Bryan, College Station, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Laredo, Harlington, Pharr, Fort Worth and every Democratic stronghold in the great state of Texas.
Gov. Karen Abbott demands the state Democrats to return back to the state so they can allow white nationalist pass the most restrictive voting bill in modern history.
Abbott, a Republican, threatened to veto funding for the state legislature Monday after Democrats blocked a controversial voting restrictions bill brought by the GOP. Abbott had said he would sign the bill into law.
Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives kept a bill with sweeping new voting restrictions from passing late Sunday night by walking out shortly before a midnight deadline, denying the majority Republicans a quorum.
The state constitution allows Abbott to veto certain items in bills, giving him the power to remove the funding for the legislature in the state budget.
"I will veto Article 10 of the budget passed by the legislature. Article 10 funds the legislative branch. No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities. Stay tuned," Abbott tweeted on Monday.
Defunding the legislature unlikely to have that much of an effect on state lawmakers, who earn only $7,200 per year when not in session and $38,140 when in session, meaning that most legislators hold outside employment when not in session. However, it will affect legislative staff, who are paid through the legislative branch.
"Punishing working class office staff, maintenance, and other support services because he didn't get every single one of his demands is very on-brand for Texas Republicans," Democratic state Representative Gene Wu said on Twitter in response to Abbott's announcement.
Abbott also announced Monday in a separate statement that he would call a special session of the legislature to address the bill, along with other issues.
"Ensuring the integrity of our elections and reforming a broken bail system remain emergencies in Texas, which is why these items, along with other priority items, will be added to the special session agenda," Abbott said.
Senate Bill 7, the measure blocked by Democrats, includes several controversial provisions that critics say would disproportionately affect poor and minority voters. It also specifically targets voting practices employed this past year in Harris County, the state's largest county, by banning drive-through voting and 24-hour voting. Those practices were used by 140,000 voters in 2020.
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S.B. 7 makes it a state jail felony for local officials to attempt to send mail-in ballot applications to voters who did not request them, a practice Harris County tried to do in 2020. The bill also limits early voting and implements more restrictions on absentee voting, including adding more identification requirements for those who wish to vote-by-mail.
Republicans are so invested in retaking back Congress and the White House. They are working hard to make sure Blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans and LGBTQ from voting in elections.
They fear that if these individuals come out and vote, the Republicans can lose power.
Many states are working to pass more restrictions to voting. The Republicans are running on the lie that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election and Washed Up 45 (name above) was robbed of a second term.
The walkout handed Republicans a rare defeat in the Texas Capitol where they control every lever of power and wield overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate.
State Rep. Chris Turner, the Democratic House leader, said he sent a text message to members of his caucus at 10:35 p.m. telling them to leave the chamber.
"We killed that bill," Turner said.
Republicans showed restraint in criticizing Democrats for the move.
"I am disappointed that some members decided to break quorum," said Republican state Rep. Karen Cain, who carried the bill in the House. "We all know what that meant. I understand why they were dong it, but we all took an oath to Texans that we would be here to do our jobs."
"We've said for so many years that we want more people to participate in our democracy. And it just seems that's not the case," Democratic state Rep. Carl Sherman said.
The move was reminiscent of 2003, when outnumbered Democrats twice broke quorum to stop Republican efforts to redraw voting maps. House Democrats first left the state en masse for Ardmore, Oklahoma only to return several days later. Senate Democrats delayed a special session that summer by going as a group to Albuquerque, New Mexico for several weeks.
Ultimately, neither effort worked as the Democrats eventually returned to the Capitol and Republicans passed the bill.
Under revisions during closed-door negotiations, Republicans added language that could make it easier for a judge to overturn an election and pushed back the start of Sunday voting, when many Black churchgoers head to the polls. The 67-page measure would also eliminate drive-thru voting and 24-hour polling centers, both of which Harris County introduced last year. It's the state's largest Democratic stronghold and includes Houston, its largest city.
Texas is the last big battleground in the GOP's nationwide efforts to tighten voting laws, driven by Washed Up 45's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Georgia and Florida have also passed new voting restrictions.
President Joe Biden and Democrats have a short window to get things done before Republicans play on selective memory and culture wars. Biden condemned the bill in a statement on Saturday, calling it "part of an assault on democracy that we've seen far too often this year—and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans."
"It's wrong and un-American. In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote," Biden said.
While in Tulsa, Biden finally addresses criticism aimed at him. He acknowledged that Democrats hold a four seat majority in the House and he didn't address them by name but said two Democrats are slowing his agenda down. This was the first time he finally called out Sen. Karen Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Karen Sinema (D-AZ) for being a bunch of punk ass Democrats.
Biden on Saturday called election changes in those states "an assault on democracy that we've seen far too often this year," one that is "often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans."
