Texas Democrats flee state to prevent vote on redrawing congressional map | Texas
The Texas Democrats are escaped from the state to prevent votes that can see five new republican -leaning chairs in the House of Representatives on Monday.
Approximately 30 Democrats, they plan to escape to Illinois, which they plan to stay for a week, said that they plan to block a minimum number of members to verify a core or voting.
Texas Democrats said in a statement that his colleagues accused Texas Republicans of a “cowardly ına to call Donald Trump’s congress map of“ continue to push disaster policies ”.
“Texas Democratic MPs reject a nucleus of Bootlicers, stopping Trump’s plan,” he said.
The state plan to escape from the state was reported to be brought together by the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, who came together with Texas Democratic Caucus at the end of last month and directed staff to provide logistics support for their stay.
Texas Group accused Texas Governor Greg Abbott, with the withholding assistance to force the red distribution vote last month to the victims of the Guadalupe River.
“We are leaving to fight for Texasli Texasli,” said Texas House Democratic Caucus President Gene Wu. “We will not allow a Trump to be hostage to Gerrymermer.”
“We do not leave our responsibilities; we walk on a fraudulent system that refuses to listen to the people we represent,” he added. “As of today, this corrupt special session is over.”
Last week, Texas Republicans released a new congress map that would give GOP a way to get five seats in the next year’s interim elections, usually in the administrative party Congress.
The areas affected by the redistribution aircraft will target the democratic congress members in and around Austin, Dallas and Houston and two regions closer to democratic control in Southern Texas.
The plan to escape from the state has no potential consequences. The members of the Texas Democrats face a fine and possible arrest of $ 500 per day, a measure introduced in 2023, two years after the Democrats left the state for three weeks to prevent the election legislation with various restrictions on the voting of the Democrats.
Ultimately, this bill passed, but after the democrats were able to claim some of their provisions, they passed before they claimed a moral victory.
The last plan to leave the state came after a Assembly Committee’s approved the new congress maps on Saturday.
“This map is politically based and this is completely legal, completely allowed and completely fair, C Cody said Cody Vasut, a Republican State Representative and Committee Member. NBC told News.
Vasut, California, New York and Illinois, including the inequalities in other states, where the votes of the votes in the votes of the votes strongly in favor of the Democrats.
“Texas is performing low in this regard. And that’s why it is completely accurate to respond to and develop the political performance of Texas’s map, completely accurate,” he said.
The political ground, which reshapes Texas’s redistribution, transforms Pritzker into a picture of a national fight. Pritzker, a billionaire member of the family, who owns the Hyatt hotel chain, is looking at an offer for the 2028 Democratic Presidential candidacy.
According to the NBC News, he addressed the democrats in Oklahoma in June and specially met at a “solid ör meeting to discuss the redistribution of Texas. Later, he met with the Texas Democrats, where he would find hotels, meeting areas and other logistical aids.
The lack of democrats on Monday threatens to remove the other issues that Abbott laid on the table, including disaster relief after the deadly Middle Texas floods last month.
Ken Paxton, the chief prosecutor of Texas, said, “There should be democrats trying to escape like cowards in the Texas House, arrested and immediately brought back to Capitol,” he said. He said in a shipment in x. “We must use every vehicle we have to hunt those who think they are above the law.”
Texas House speaker Dustin Burrows in question On Monday at 15:00, “If there is no core at that time, all the options will be on the table to borrow some of my democratic colleagues’ latest speech points”.
