Texas Democrats Walk Out, Stop Republican’s Sweeping Voting Restrictions
31st May 2021
NPR, repeating blatantly biased coverage by the Associated Press.
If Republicans had done this to stop a Democrat measure, the Narrative Media would be trumpeting ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY!
And it’s just posturing, because the Governor can just call another special session, which this shenanigan will almost guarantee.
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.