JB Pritzker said lawmakers are ‘doing the right thing’ after a group left Texas to prevent House vote on redistricting
The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, has vowed to protect the Democratic members of the Texas house of representatives who left the state in an attempt to block Republican efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional maps.
“We’re going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them and make sure that – ’cause we know they’re doing the right thing, we know that they’re following the law,” Pritzker said at a press conference on Sunday in Illinois alongside some of the the Texas Democratic lawmakers.
The Texas Democrats fled the state on Sunday in an effort to prevent the Texas house from reaching the quorum on Monday needed to vote on a newly proposed congressional map.
Good start (and infinitely better than the “then we’re gonna do our own gerrymander!” bullshit NY and CA Dems are apparently contemplating), but if you really feel an obligation to protect Texans you should start warming people up to the idea of having a coalition of blue state governments send their troopers into Texas to depose the tyrants an re-establish democracy, because that’s what this is gonna take
That’s one way to start a second civil war…