"We are always happy to have Reps. Meza and @VentonJonesTX at meetings of @StonewallDalCo!"
"We also hosted Congresswoman @juliejohnsonTX and her Capitol Hill police officer. We appreciate everyone's service and support of the LGBTQ+ community."
"So the Speaker of the Texas House has just elected to hold members hostage until, not flood relief is addressed, but until racist maps are voted on,"
"Flood relief was never the mission. It was these maps. These maps can only be created by diluting the representation and voices of Black and Brown people. NOW law enforcement is continuing to be used against duly elected members force a vote."
Texas state troopers now accompany Democratic state representatives to ensure their attendance for redistricting votes, creating police presence at public events. Representatives Venton Jones and Terry Meza attended a meeting with the Stonewall Democrats at the Rose Room, a gay bar in Dallas' Oak Lawn, with escorts present. The escorts were ordered after several Democrats left the state to deny a quorum and temporarily block a mid-decade redistricting effort led by Governor Greg Abbott. Jones criticized Speaker Dustin Burrows and called the maps racist manipulation that dilutes Black and Brown representation and said law enforcement was being used to force a vote.
Read at Advocate.com
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