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2 Texas Democratic legislators are vacationing in Portugal after fleeing the state over GOP elections bill: report
The Business Insider via MSN ^ | 04 Aug 2021 | Bryan Metzger

Posted on 08/04/2021 11:39:01 PM PDT by blueplum

Two of the dozens of Texas Democratic state legislators that fled to Washington, DC last month are currently on vacation in Portugal, the Texas Tribune reported.

Reps. Julie Johnson and Jessica Gonzáles and their wives planned the trip a year and half in advance and had non-refundable tickets, according to Texas Monthly reporter Jonathan Tilove....

...The news of the legislators' absence broke as more than 100 state legislators from around the country fly in for a "week of action" to promote the "For the People" Act, a sweeping voting rights bill that is currently stalled in the Senate....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: democrats; eussr; fleebaggers; flyingnuns; fourthreich; homosexualagenda; jessicagonzles; juliejohnson; lbqtlolapalooza; portugal; texas; travelquarantines
because for thee not them
1 posted on 08/04/2021 11:39:01 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

“Julie and Jessica and their wives…”

I’m so confused😈


2 posted on 08/04/2021 11:43:38 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: blueplum

There really should be something like dereliction of duty for these clowns allowing them to be removed because sure as heck that’s what they’d do if it were reversed.


3 posted on 08/04/2021 11:44:58 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: blueplum
Reps. Julie Johnson and Jessica Gonzáles and their wives planned the trip a year and half in advance and had non-refundable tickets, according to Texas Monthly reporter Jonathan Tilove.

Clearly non-refundable tickets are more important than doing their jobs representing the people who elected them. Too bad those tickets aren't one-way.

4 posted on 08/04/2021 11:52:24 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Just FYI, Portugal has right now one of the highest incident rates of Covid of any European country.....especially along the coastal vacation resort areas. It’d be a pretty sure bet that a minimum of one of these people get Covid.


5 posted on 08/05/2021 12:48:28 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: blueplum

What part of Portugal?


6 posted on 08/05/2021 2:29:44 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: blueplum

Maybe Texas and Portugal don’t have extradition treaties???


7 posted on 08/05/2021 2:34:21 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: blueplum

“Reps. Julie Johnson and Jessica Gonzáles and their wives planned the trip a year and half in advance and had non-refundable tickets”

FLAT-OUT LIE. First, you can plan trips for as long as you want, but you cannot buy tickets more than a year in advance...and a year ago, ALL tickets were refundable.

Doesn’t matter though, no one will check it.


8 posted on 08/05/2021 4:12:54 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: blueplum

9 posted on 08/05/2021 5:05:13 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Lisbon1940

If we had a REAL media, one of them would hope over there for some pictures of these criminals, spending taxpayer money on their ‘vacations’


10 posted on 08/05/2021 5:24:10 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: Laslo Fripp

““Julie and Jessica and their wives…””

Nuts, fruits, flakes, and commies. They’re everywhere.


11 posted on 08/05/2021 6:12:27 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Election Fraud Deniers--Won't follow the science, won't follow the law.)
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To: blueplum

So do we send the Dr. Pepper and other assorted items in the care packages to Portugal?


12 posted on 08/05/2021 6:14:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: blueplum

No extradition treaty?


13 posted on 08/05/2021 6:40:59 AM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: blueplum

Wait.. I don’t want an extradition... Portugal can keep them :P


14 posted on 08/05/2021 6:42:25 AM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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“Reps. Julie Johnson and Jessica Gonzáles and their wives”

I’m not going to let them ruin my breakfast! They are the one’s who will have to face Almighty God and try and ‘splain’ their way out of hell.


15 posted on 08/05/2021 6:49:23 AM PDT by Tomato lover (I drive vintage trucks.)
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To: blueplum

Why is it only Gov. Representatives can walk off their job, refuse to do their job, go on vacation, and not be fired? It’s apparent they are not in office to ‘serve’ the people.


16 posted on 08/05/2021 6:50:55 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: blueplum

I’d say they all have abandoned their job. Hire someone else who CAN do it.


17 posted on 08/05/2021 6:54:59 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: blueplum

Its cheaper flying to Portugal from DC than Dallas.


18 posted on 08/05/2021 7:10:29 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Bikkuri

Agreed. They don’t need to come back.


19 posted on 08/05/2021 10:19:18 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Bikkuri

Portugal can keep them

I like that idea ! Maybe we could do something like Israeli’s new rule - after Portugal, they have to go to an ‘amber’ country and spend 14 days infection free before they can board a flight. That should keep them out a little longer


20 posted on 08/05/2021 3:30:55 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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