Posted on 07/14/2021 9:06:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Living for this.
BREAKING: TX House votes 76-4 to send the Sergeant-at-Arms to detain or arrest fleeing members
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) July 13, 2021
Texas House Republicans vote to track down absent Democrats and arrest them if necessary
The procedural move carries little apparent weight since the Democrats who fled the state to break quorum are beyond the jurisdiction of Texas law enforcement.
By Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune, July 13, 2021:
The Texas House voted Tuesday to send law enforcement to track down Democrats who left the state a day earlier in protest of Republicans’ priority elections bill “under warrant of arrest if necessary.”
More than 50 House Democrat’s left Monday for Washington, D.C., to deny the chamber a quorum as it takes up voting restrictions and other GOP priorities in special session.
The impact of the House move is unclear since the Texas law enforcement lacks jurisdiction in the nation’s capital.
Meeting shortly after 10 a.m., the House quickly established that it lacked the two-thirds quorum required to do business, with only 80 of 150 members participating in a test vote.
Then Rep. Will Metcalf, R-Conroe, chairman of the House Administration Committee, moved to issue what is known as a “call of the House” to try to regain quorum. That motion passed 76-4. Metcalf offered another motion, asking that “the sergeant at arms, or officers appointed by him, send for all absentees … under warrant of arrest if necessary.” That motion also passed 76-4.
After Metcalf’s motions passed, Rep. Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington, sought to move to strip absent Democrats of their committee leadership posts if they do not return by noon Wednesday. The motion did not immediately get a vote, and in a subsequent exchange with Rep. Morgan Meyer, R-Dallas, House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, said committee chairs and vice chairs cannot be removed from their positions under the current chamber rules.
Earlier Tuesday morning, Gov. Greg Abbott said in a radio interview that any Democrat who fled the state should lose their committee leadership posts.
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Maybe the rat bastards can walk the plank.
Suspend their credit cards and expense accounts. They will be back in ten minutes. People always ignore the cheap and easy solution to every problem.
“Purpose: Drive Thru Voting (DTV) was created in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as a safer, socially-distant alternative to walk-in voting for all voters. Harris County is the first jurisdiction in Texas history to create this new method of voting at scale that allows any registered voter to cast their ballot without leaving the comfort of their vehicle.”
Did “Harris County” create this new method or did the legislature?
https://harrisvotes.com/drivethruvoting
Need to make a rule that when people flee the state to avoid their being a quorum that as long as they don’t return clowns will be hired to impersonate them in public … badly … and they will also lake their place and vote “no” against all proposed legislation (since people don’t flee to avoid a yes vote).
How can you have democratic society if the people stop the Democrat’s Party from rigging elections?
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Yup
If Nancy can set up Capitol Police Precincts in Florida and California, I think the Texas Rangers can be sent to serve papers to the Texas “heroes” hanging out with other Democrat fellow travelers in Wash DC.
Suspend their staff and put them on leave without pay.
Send the Rangers after them.
Just saying...
House all those women in the same cell a few months. When they start cycling together they would probably kill each other. Problem solved.
The MIA Dems should be considered to have forfeited their positions and the Gov & Legislature that remains should institute procedures to replace them.
In the mean time, they should be allowed to bypass the quorum requirement because of the emergency situation the Dems have intentionally created and vote on the Bill
F-’em.
Step in the right direction. Also needs to pass legislation that removes a legislature for missing X number of quorum calls as automatic “abandonment of office”. Normal replacement procedures then kick in.
You got it. They sure as sh!t aren’t footing this trip out of pocket. They’re using those Texas Gov’t cards and/or the bill is being footed by a third party. I hear the dude is Lebanese...
Actually arrest them. Don’t back down.. And make them pay for the plane trip and the beer they drank.
They should be in trouble for using government money for an unauthorized trip. If some ordinary state employee used their government-issued credit card to pay for a vacation or buy unauthorized items, that person would be fired and likely face criminal charges.
Who are the four limp-wristed pansies that voted no? I wasn’t aware there a lower form of RINO/Assistant Democrat...
dont other states have to honor extradition requests when a warrant has been issued?
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