Samuel Case, FISM News
On Tuesday the Texas House of Representatives voted 76-4 to force Democrats “under warrant of arrest, if necessary” to return to the state and their posts in the House. Governor Greg Abbott warned yesterday: “As soon as they come back in the state of Texas, they will be arrested, they will be cabined inside the Texas Capitol until they get their job done.”
VIDEO: Texas House votes 76-4 to send the Sergeant-of-Arms to detain or arrest fleeing members pic.twitter.com/aeScWbXlCn
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) July 13, 2021
Over 50 Texas House Democrats left the state on Monday to stall a vote on Texas voting reform, by preventing the House from holding a quorum. Texas Democrats pulled a similar move back in May by staging a walk-out to prevent the voting reform legislation from going to a vote, which in turn prompted this special session that Democrats are attempting to throttle.
Democrats must get back to the job they were elected to do.
Their constituents must not be denied important resources simply because their elected representatives refused to show up to work. pic.twitter.com/dGC9DceRaZ
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) July 12, 2021
FISM News reports: “the bills that they are trying to prevent from passing through the Republican-led House are Senate Bill 1 and House Bill 3 which would add more hours to vote than ever allowed, but would also require ID for mail-in balloting and ban drive-through voting, 24-hour polling, and ballot drop-boxes.”