Democrats in the State House are caving to Greg Abbott and state Republicans and will return to Texas, according to ABC 13. The reporting claims Democrats believe they have won, but in reality the new Texas maps will go forward despite them.
I think the reason they are coming back is that want their paychecks.
Here’s more:
ABC13 has confirmed with multiple sources that House Democrats will return to Texas.
Eyewitness News has not confirmed the date, but we do know that Democrats believe they’ve accomplished their mission by killing the first special session and by raising national awareness about the mid-decade redistricting effort.
It is unclear which day they will be in Austin at the Capitol, but they stress that they will push for Hill Country flooding relief to be the priority.
After our initial reporting online and on television, a spokesperson for the Texas Democratic Caucus sent the following statement to ABC News:
“Members are still assessing their strategies going forward and are in a private meeting to make decisions about future plans currently,” he wrote. “If and when Texas House Democrats breaking quorum decide to go home is squarely dependent on the actions the Governor, Speaker, and Texas Republicans in charge make with regard to prioritizing flood victims over redistricting that hurts Texans.”
As of 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 90 minutes after ABC13 first reported the move, nobody from the HDC had reached out directly to ABC13 to refute our initial reporting.
They probably believe they’ve won because the idiots in certain blue states are now going to create revenge-redistricting maps, which I think they’ll have a hard time justifying in the courts even if they get them passed.
But there are other red states that may join this fight as well and then we’ll see how it all unfolds.