TEXAS HOUSE DEMS: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS UP TO ABBOTT

TEXAS HOUSE DEMS: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS UP TO ABBOTT

***Texas House Democrats are ready to deliver on flood relief,

but Abbott must prioritize the needs of Texans***

**CHICAGO — **After Speaker Dustin Burrows, Lt. Gov Dan Patrick, and Gov. Greg Abbott announced that they will capitulate to Democratic demands to end their corrupt special session on Friday, but promised to call another, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Gene Wu issued the following statement:

“What happens next is entirely up to Greg Abbott. After deliberation among our caucus, we have reached a consensus: Texas House Democrats refuse to give him a quorum to pass his racist maps that silence more than 2 million Black and Latino Texans — in keeping with our original promise to Texans, the First Called Special Session will never make quorum again, defeating Abbott’s first attempt at passing his racial gerrymander.

“We’ve fundamentally changed the rules of this fight. California is moving forward with plans to flip five Republican seats, and blue states nationwide are mobilized and ready to act if Abbott moves forward with this nationally-damaging redistricting scheme. Republicans have already set up surveillance outside our homes, created tiplines for bounty hunters, called in bomb threats on our location, and took cops off the beat for political purposes — yet Abbott has still refused to move even a single dollar to flood relief, something he has the unilateral power to do with a stroke of his pen.

“Texas House Democrats will issue our demands for a second special session on Friday. Abbott can choose to govern for Texas families, or he can keep serving Trump and face the consequences we’ve unleashed nationwide.”