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Runaway Texas Democrat says it will cost $1.5M to keep them in DC until August 7 in their $200-a-night hotel - while member admits it was a MISTAKE to go maskless on private jet after five got COVID
Daily Mail ^ | 7-19-21 | KATELYN CARALLE

Posted on 07/19/2021 5:20:32 PM PDT by dynachrome

A Texas Democrat said Monday the runaways will need $1.5 million to stay in D.C. until August 7 - while another member admitted it was a mistake to go maskless on private jets after five contracted COVID.

Fundraising efforts ensued last week to help pay for the trip as the group insists no taxpayer money is being used for their stunt.

State Representative Armando Walle told NBC News in a report published Monday that the cost of keeping the group of around 60 lawmakers in the nation's capital for the remainder of the special session would reach around $1.5 million.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: chickends; demonicrats; fleebagers; fleebags; texas
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To: Brian Griffin

Charter jets do not count as commercial aircraft for these (and many other) regulatory purposes. A number of conservatives have been resorting to charter planes to fly rather than wear masks - you can also carry guns on charter flights and do many other things that you can’t do on commercial flights.


61 posted on 07/19/2021 7:06:07 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dynachrome

There are plenty of nice suites with kitchens, just across the river in Arlington, for around $100/night, some with free shuttles to the grocery store so they can cook meals.


62 posted on 07/19/2021 7:17:46 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: RBW in PA

“ Make the bastards quarantine in a parking garage.”

Genius!


63 posted on 07/19/2021 7:24:09 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: dynachrome

Probably getting EARLY treatment that others are prevented from having access to.


64 posted on 07/19/2021 7:25:55 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: dynachrome

The fleabags are still getting legislator salaries.

That’s tax dollars right there in their pocket....... for not doing their job.

Are they putting in vouchers to cover expenses?

Using other tax paid perks?


65 posted on 07/19/2021 7:34:50 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doe't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: dynachrome

$200/nite in DC is a flop house.


66 posted on 07/19/2021 7:49:57 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Relying strictly on bribes for this trip——- /sarc


67 posted on 07/19/2021 7:52:52 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Grampa Dave

“FleeBaggers vaccinated or not?”

Supposedly, yes.


68 posted on 07/19/2021 8:07:37 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

Real morons .... Abbott will call another special session when this one ends .... and they are breeding.


69 posted on 07/19/2021 8:14:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: dynachrome

Declare seats vacant
Padlock their offices
Cancel their cell phones
Cancel their email
Fire their staff
Stop their paychecks
Hold snap elections or appoint interim successors
Pass the election law
If they return, arrest and hold without bail as flight risk


70 posted on 07/19/2021 8:31:05 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Turbo Pig

It shouldn’t be called a vaccine then.


71 posted on 07/19/2021 8:33:44 PM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: dynachrome

These people are disgusting.


72 posted on 07/19/2021 9:11:16 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Smallpox was eliminated with a 95% effective vaccine. It took two decades and nearly 100% global compliance for a 95% effective vaccine to stop the chain of infection. The V penetration rate needed for a 95% effective vaccine to stop the RT to extinction levels was 90% penetration that was exceeded world wide. While the smallpox eradication program was in progress tens of thousands still contracted smallpox and thousands died from the it even though vaccinated this is in addition to the tens of thousands who died from adverse events of the vaccine itself. Society came together and decided that via the social contract that those deaths were acceptable to society whit large and mandated the global use of the smallpox eradication program. The Supreme Court has upheld twice the legality of.forced vaccinations the first time specifically for smallpox in a 9_0 vote of my memory still works. So yes a 90+ % effective vaccine can wipe out a virus if the V penetration rate is high enough in the host population to take the RT down to levels where the virus runs out of hosts and losses it vectors of transmission.


73 posted on 07/19/2021 11:21:48 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: dynachrome
[...] while member admits it was a MISTAKE to go maskless on private jet after five got COVID

I'm sure that, during his last days in the Bunker under the Reichstag, Hitler would have likewise agreed that "Operation Barbarossa" was a mistake.

Why should I care?

Regards,

74 posted on 07/20/2021 12:00:23 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: All

Texas Government Code Sec. 659.003 permits an elected or appointed officer of the state to decline all or a portion of his or her remuneration. This includes

<><>salary,
<><>compensatory per diem,
<><>expense per diem,
<><>reimbursement for expenses,
<><>longevity pay and fees
<><>(“per diem” refers to daily expense allowance).

Absentee lawmakers would do this by filing a Declination of Remuneration by Elected or Appointed Officer form with the Secretary of State. The declination becomes effective on the date the form is filed with the Secretary of State’s office, explained Comptroller Hagar.


75 posted on 07/20/2021 1:18:05 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doe't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: dynachrome

Anyone have the NAMES of the 5??? I wonder if they are Black or Hispanic.


76 posted on 07/20/2021 2:44:15 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: LeoTDB69

NO...they are DEMOCRATS! LAWS are only for Republicans to follow.


77 posted on 07/20/2021 2:47:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Are you suggesting the panel of vaccines children receive is only 50% effective?

No, I am saying that the COOF vaccine is nothing like the vaccines you are talking about. It's coverage is more akin to the flu vaccine than the polio vaccine. The COOF is endemic, like the common cold. There is just as much a chance of it mutating to be resistant because of the poke as there is someone being protected by it.

78 posted on 07/20/2021 3:43:54 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('to close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: bigbob

Isn’t there a motel in DC where the rat could earn their own room and board on their backs?


79 posted on 07/20/2021 5:37:34 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: dynachrome

Has anyone else suggested sticking them in a parking garage with accommodations similar to those provided to the National Guard?


80 posted on 07/20/2021 8:16:39 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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