Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return. Dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to block redrawn U.S. House maps that President Trump wants before the 2026 midterm elections.
Abbott is taking a far more aggressive stance than the one he took in 2021. He swiftly warning Democrats that he will seek to remove them from office if they are not back when the House reconvenes Monday afternoon. Abbott cited a non-binding 2021 legal opinion issued by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, which suggested a court could determine that a legislator had forfeited their office.
He also suggested the lawmakers may have committed felonies by raising money to help pay for fines they’d face.
“This truancy ends now,” Abbott said.
In response, House Democrats issued a four-word statement: “Come and take it.”
Background
Forty Fifty-one Democrats left the state on Sunday and fled to Illinois so they wouldn’t have to deal with the vote on redistricting. Ironically, Illinois is one of the worst gerrymandered states in the nation, which is why it goes left most elections.
The Republicans are trying to add five more seats through redistricting at the suggestion of President Trump. Four of the five new districts are majority Hispanic. This is not a racial move.
Republicans hold 25 of the 38 states. They are attempting to do what Democrats have done in states like California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and so on.
A vote on the proposed maps had been set for Monday in the Texas House of Representatives, but it cannot proceed if the majority of Democratic members deny a quorum by not showing up. After one group of Democrats landed in Chicago on Sunday, they were welcomed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, but declined to say how long they were prepared to stay out of Texas.
“We will do whatever it takes. What that looks like, we don’t know,” said state Rep. Gene Wu, the Texas House Democratic Caucus leader.
All the walkout does is delay the vote. In other words, it’s theatrics to show their base they are doing something so courageous that you have to vote for them again.
LOOK AT US- RUNNING AWAY LIKE BABIES INSTEAD OF ACTING THE WAY REAL MEN (AND WOMEN?) DO.
Why not just change the House rules to allow a quorum at the number of people present?
do it then, or did they return?
Talk is cheap Gov. Abbott! Just do it!
Only cowards run away. These cowardly DemonRAT bums prove the point. They have abandoned their state, districts, jobs, constituents, the Constitution, and worst of all, their self-respect. Just as in 1981, when PATCO air traffic controllers walked off their jobs, endangering the flying public, President Reagan fired them all. Governor Abbott, you must do the same with these cowardly DemonRAT lawbreaking rascals.
I applaud Gov. Abbott’s plan to fine Democrats who have fled their responsibility to vote on redistricting. Also, I hope he arrests those Democrats who have taken bribes to leave the state. Their actions are anti-democracy. They are loathesome whiners. Do not give them an inch. Demonize and destroy them. That’s what Democrats would do to Republicans if they held the majority. I am tired of liberturds fighting the wishes of the majority. Any RINOs who support the Dems need to be identified, ridiculed and primaried out of office.
Democrats doing what Democrats do; Dereliction of duty.
They are Public Employees, not Dictators.
If they don’t like what is being done to them, they shouldn’t have done it to others.
They phucked over New Mexico, that is why we are fighting back.
This a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.
Loyal opposition does not open the door to Dictatorship.
When the people vote you out of power; you are supposed to listen to the people you represent, not impose your Parties Agenda.
Lefties accuse US of being Nazis and Fascists, when, they are the Nazis and Fascists.
Alinsky rule: Always accuse your opponent of what you are doing.
There is no way Abbott has the backbone to do…anything but blather. I truly hope I’m wrong, but the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Abbott has been a hugely deceptive RINO his whole career.
You need to re-think where you get your information. Gov Abbot’s been a wonderful asset to Texans, and continues to be.
If this is done how I hope, the members will be declared removed today. Then, the house votes to redistrict, by tomorrow. Then, the lawsuits come to reinstate the former members and nullify the vote. Meanwhile, the state does the work to change the districts. No hesitation is required.
Talking about the “end of Democracy”. Performative, cowardly Dems are the poster children for ending our Constitutional Republic as we know it.
It was theatrics like these the demorrhoids are performing that Benjamin Franklin was referring to when he was asked in 1787 what form of government the Constitutional Convention had created.
These losers are proving they can’t “keep it”, and if they stay on their present course, we may end up losing the country, likely to socialism or even communism.
Democrats throwing toddler tantrums when they don’t get their way is just another childish and irresponsible stunt to tell us once again who they are. Predictable and boring. But if they can at least be sued for dereliction of duty or for anything related and worse, forced to PERSONALLY lawyer up and go to court…well, they would at least still have a use…comedic relief.
And THAT’S what the entire national demorrhoid dog ‘n pony show has become – comic relief. And it would be truly laughable, were it not for the fact that so many American voters align with their views. That makes it a national tragedy that won’t end well.
Now there are Legal Illegal Immigrants coming into Chicago. Wow.
fled to ill-noise. figures. thats where all the demoscum from wisconsin ran when one of our best gov’s Scott Walker got Act 10 passed. ill-noise should be a gulag for run away demoscum.
Americans are tired of these childish democrat stunts. The party is effectively dead and flailing for relevancy. The pro gay/transexual and illegal immigration policies are out of touch with most Americans. The party itself is devoid of any cogent leadership, policy or ideological dogma.
I wouldn’t be able to stop laughing the rest of my life if the plane crashed, keelling (Spanish) all democrats on board. The thought even makes me laugh right now. Nobody misses democrats who’ve gone to hell
God does work in mysterious ways!
Is Abbott the little engine that could? A republican will actually fight back?
If he is a man of action, unlike when he delayed for 2 years trying to stop the invasion, he will be all ready this afternoon immediately to take action.
My district is severely gerrymandered in Illinois. We had a RINO (Roskam) who sold out against Trump, then lost in a conservative district. My district now extends into the city, we have a leftist know nothing Latino at a, 10th grade level representing us. We have not had a conservative bother to try to run since Roskam sold out and Trump told him off.
Go for dismissal for not carrying out the duties their swore to do.
They are stealing from the taxpayers. NO MERCY!
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