Texas Democrats refused to return to the threats of imprisonment and dismissal
As it happenedWhy are many Democrats in Texas to escape the state
Vikki Goodwin says she doesn’t worry about allegations of bribery, daily penalty and imprisonment is built against her and the decas democrats who flee the State.
Goodwin is one of the many HEASE Democrats organized in free regions that reject the Texas Republans The quorum need to vote in the new rehabilitation system, with the intention of strengthening the Republican Complimentary of the Sport.
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“As the people learned why we did this, them, resented that they could have our Ruler and bowed down to the president of the United States,” Goodwin, in Illinois, was told As it happened Visitor Rebecca Zandbergen.
“The idea that we draw lines to select the extra Republican presentations, I think complying with the idea of everyone’s real democracy.”
Trump wants 5 seats over
Abbott has made a special session to vote in the Redemption Bill, which is expected to provide five additional seats and protect the majority of the Markerissional Midters elections.
But he cannot convey the bill 150-house of two-thirds of the members. Democrats hold 62 seats in many Republican room, and at least 51 left the state, according to Democratic Aide.
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Provinces are requested to resign every 10 years based on the US Census Bureau, but the current Texas map is transferred four years ago. Goodwin says the push of the push of Map Mid Mail-Cycle has been urgent and worthless.
“It is because Trump asked that, and Abbott was determined to do anything Trump asked,” he said.
Trump, himself, did not make the secret of his desire to eliminate his rule in Texas.
“We have the right to many five seats,” he told CNBC on Tuesday.
In the same discussion, Trump said Germandering traveled both methods, and it was accused of democracy withdrawing maps themselves.
“They go to Illinois for the safety. But that is all chosen to Gerrymander. California Gerrymander. We must have many seats in Congress,” he said.
The White House official told Reuters that Trump wants Abbott to do “whatever is needed” to find a new new map.
Gene Wu Wo, Chairman of Texas House Democratic Caucus, said the program was more than the power; “The turbocharged racism” will improve the ballot power in races in the state.
New lines may make it difficult for two hispanic workers and two black opportunities to keep their seats in 2026, according to the Associated Press.
The Texas Republicans contradicts the new requests, commenting on the new map will build four regions that are racially different, and increase the number of Spanish-largest regions.
‘There will be consequences’
Abbott called Democrats to leave the kingdom “Un-Texan” and releases all the stops to force them.
He has threatened them to remove them from their duties – something the Legal Optims means a long procedure, not sure that the new elections fill the vacant seats.
The house also issued the COVICAN WARRANTs who are not Democrats, and Abbott ordered the State Troopers to find and catch it – something they were legally managed without the restrictions of the State.
Under the laws of the house, each representative is facing $ 500 to us daily. Abbott said that any of the sustaining household would cover those costs that could face charges of bribery, and vow to emphasize any “foreign felons.”
“If you continue to go down the road, there will be results,” Speaker of the Homeable. Dustin shows, Republican, threatened from the Chamber floor on Monday.
Asked about the threats of infant charging, Doodwin said: “I myself, I didn’t have the money I made out of leaving the State. This has run out of the need to protect our democracy, the need to go back to Trump. “
Regarding the penalties, he said: “We will find a way to combine those costs.”
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But that is easy to say than do what is done in the last two countries, when the power to restore is relaxed for independent commissions.
Goodwin said the strategy to wait only for Abbott’s special time can be working so long. When this one ends in Aug. 19, he says, he might be called new.
But by his hope, that he and his colleagues will continue to receive social support from Texans all strokes, and Abbott will be forced to stop the bill to avoid his appointment.
“That would be my great goal,” he said. “Amazing things happened.”
In files from the related media and Reuters. Discussion with Vikki Goodwin produced by Katie GeleFF.
