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Liquor Dealer · 07-28-2003, 04:30 PM

Gutless Texas Senators follow House lead - flee the state!
(I'm gettin' to where I hate to even admit I was born in the Great State of Tejas)

Texas Senators Take Page From House Playbook, Bolt

Monday, July 28, 2003

AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic state lawmakers fled Texas on Monday for the second time in three months to thwart a Republican drive to redraw the state's congressional districts.

Eleven of the 12 Democrats in the state Senate left for Albuquerque, N.M., as a first special session called by the governor to address redistricting drew to a close and he called a second special session, which began Monday afternoon. The second session could last up to 30 days.

"We're availing ourselves of a tool given to us by our Texas Constitution to break a quorum," Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos said at a hotel in Albuquerque. "It's not about Democrats, it's about democracy."

Asked how long the group might stay in New Mexico, Barrientos said, "We have to gauge that day by day."

Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr. said the trip to New Mexico came as a surprise to him: "I didn't even know we were coming here until I got on the plane."

I hope Texas voters have more guts than their elected members of the state legislature have and throw them all out when election time comes around!

07-28-2003, 04:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Liquor Dealer Super Agitator Location: Just SW of Nowhere!!! In the good old US of A	Texas Politics in the Shitter! Again... Gutless Texas Senators follow House lead - flee the state! (I'm gettin' to where I hate to even admit I was born in the Great State of Tejas) Texas Senators Take Page From House Playbook, Bolt Monday, July 28, 2003 AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic state lawmakers fled Texas on Monday for the second time in three months to thwart a Republican drive to redraw the state's congressional districts. Eleven of the 12 Democrats in the state Senate left for Albuquerque, N.M., as a first special session called by the governor to address redistricting drew to a close and he called a second special session, which began Monday afternoon. The second session could last up to 30 days. "We're availing ourselves of a tool given to us by our Texas Constitution to break a quorum," Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos said at a hotel in Albuquerque. "It's not about Democrats, it's about democracy." Asked how long the group might stay in New Mexico, Barrientos said, "We have to gauge that day by day." Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr. said the trip to New Mexico came as a surprise to him: "I didn't even know we were coming here until I got on the plane." I hope Texas voters have more guts than their elected members of the state legislature have and throw them all out when election time comes around! __________________ Life isn't always a bowl of cherries, sometimes it's more like a jar of Jalapenos --- what you say or do today might burn your ass tomorrow!!! Last edited by Liquor Dealer; 07-28-2003 at 04:34 PM..