Texas Democrats are fleeing to Washington to try to kill a Republican bill making it harder to vote in the Lone Star State.
Democrats in the Texas Legislature left Austin before the GOP could take a first vote on a voting bill in the current special legislative session.
That’s in part because lawmakers are people, too — with families to feed and mortgages to pay. Extended stays in other states tend to drain household budgets, not to mention political goodwill with voters. In some cases, they can be threatened with losing their state legislative pay or even potentially be sued, as Oregon’s Democratic governor threatened to do to the absent GOP lawmakers. Abbott has already docked lawmakers’ pay.
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