How Texas Governor Got Out Smarted Once Again
How the Democrats took a stand for equal voting rights for all in the face of threats of arrest
Every citizen has the right to vote and that privilege is in danger because a political party, GOP, wants to dictate who can vote to ensure their win in all political offices. The GOP has no political agenda other than to remain in control, aspirations for the next presidential race and to suppress the vote of people of color. Thus far two thirds of the 51 states have passed anti-voting bills against people of color, young voters and disabled voters.
Even though no fraud has been proven in the 2020 presidential election, these bills are continually being passed at an alarming rate. During and post presidential election of 2020, court cases after court cases were thrown out that the many Trump lawyers challenged the legality of the voting systems in various states and the actual election with no evidence to prove any illegal activity occurred.
It is a shame and an atrocity that more than half of the fifty one states have filed hundreds of anti-voting laws targeting people of color, young people and the physically disable. How the courts have allowed such behavior when it is obvious what is happening is anti-democracy, and shameful. Now I understand why Trump filled the seats on the Supreme Court with his judiciary selection. It was all about staying in control and denying the due processes of elections. This racist agenda has always been in place, but since the last administration, it gave all a license to increase at an alarming rate denying equal rights, voting rights, and civil rights to people of color, young voters and the disabled.
It is okay for Governor Gregg Abbott to approve laws denying others the right to vote without cause other than suppression of people of color voting rights but when the Democrats take a stand against the GOP pushing into law more anti-voting rights bill, he calls them outlaws as he threatened to arrest them upon their return to Texas from Washington where they visited the White House to encourage President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer to pass the For the People Act Bill (S1).
About 50 Texas Democrats flew to Washington, D.C., breaking quorum during a 30-day special session of the state Legislature due to end in August. Great move by the Democrats stalling their Republican colleagues proposed voting restrictions agenda. Hopefully, this will allow the Democrats time to plead with the congressional Democrats and Congress to pass legislation that would protect voting rights for everyone, especially people of color, the disabled and younger voters.
The GOP is playing all kinds of unlawful act pertaining to denying people of color the rights to vote, passing anti-voting bills with all kinds of hidden agendas, all because Trump lost the presidential election and the Democrats won the House.
The smartest are outsmarting the wannabee smart. Last month, the Texas Democrats staged a walkout blocking proposed anti-voting laws, therefore the angered governor called a special legislative session. Texas already has the toughest anti-voting bills in the Nation and are yet seeking to add more anti voting rights bills. The GOP issued laws banning 24-hour polling places, eliminating drop boxes for mailed ballots, and eliminating voting on Sundays, just to name a few obvious racist tactics.
As the democrats remained in Washington, DC for a second day protesting these Texas anti-voting bills, the Texas GOP passed a motion asking the presiding officer of their session to send all the absentees a warrant of arrest if necessary. The democrats have piled into hotels and planned a stay unlike any other visits in past partitioning all lawmakers, the Country and the administration to do what needs to be done for what is right by all the people.
With the Democrats extended stay in Washington, DC, Texas governor, Abbott, is fuming to punish them. The Texas Democrats are making a stand and letting the governor know they are not going to roll over and look the other way, not this time and not ever.
Abbott, a Trumpster all the way, has his own agenda with an eye on the next presidential election. To stay in Trump favor, he’d do whatever it takes, hoping to garner some of his voters. Therefore, he is yet trying to push his way, bullying the Democrats to return so he can implement his anti-voting agenda. He even threatened to call special session, after special session as long as takes to hijack others voting rights. What Abbott doesn’t realized is that he is dealing with a group of people who are determined, smart and he can’t touch, even as a governor.
In the meantime, taxpayers have to pay for all these Texas’ sessions at a time when many of Texas citizens have been hit hard by the pandemic and other catastrophic natural disaster events. Is the governor focused on the citizens wellbeing and need?
Hatred make people do awful things to others. Abbott wants to forced the Democrats return so he can locked them in a session and force the GOP anti-voting agenda down their throats. The Texas Democrats are showing Abbott while he may control a select few, they are not one of them. The Democrats are determined not to be Abbott’s hostage and allow him to strip away people of color voting rights and will stay in Washington, DC making their voices heard and talking with Biden to pass the bill needed to correct all these anti-voting rights bills passed around the country.
In conclusion, the time for President Biden to step up to the plate is now. Eliminate the filibuster for this passage of the S1 bill, show the people he means what he said, and said what he means as being the president for all the people. People of color, young and disabled voters are people too!
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