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What could possibly cause elected public servants, who have spent millions of other people's money to get elected, suddenly pack up and leave the state, refusing to do the job they wanted so badly?
The short answer is voter integrity.
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbot says he will have them arrested and forcibly brought back to do their job when they return to Texas.
When will they return?
Be informed, not misled.
The Texan Democrats who fled to Washington DC for sanctuary from the Texan Republicans say they are not coming back, thus depriving the state legislature a quorum, thus depriving the public servants who did not flee, the ability to do what they were elected to do---legislate.
Gov Abbott told Laura Ingraham on Monday to defend the voter integrity bill before the House, the missing lawmakers will be arrested when they set foot on Texas soil: "Once they step back into the state they will be arrested and brought back to the Capitol and will be conducting business," he said.
The trigger for the exodus was a state voter integrity bill that Republicans say will provide greater election security, while the Democrats claim it will suppress voter turnout for minorities.
Summer camp.
Democrat State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer sounded like a "founding father." Or a kid leaving for summer camp: "We've left our jobs, we've left our families, we've left our homes. Because there is nothing more important than voting rights in America."
Once on the plane, it was much more "summer camp" and less like "founding fathers."
Smiling, making the peace sign with a case of beer in plain sight, these patriots jetted off for their country---All to defeat Texas Senate Bill 7.
Rep. James Talarico tweeted, "Just landed in Memphis on our way to DC. Thank y'all for your well wishes. We left behind our families, our livelihoods & our beloved Texas. But our sacrifice is nothing compared to the sacrifices brave Americans have made throughout history to protect the sacred right to vote."
VP Harris: "Fighting for the right to vote is as American as apple pie."
Continuing, she said,
"I will say that they are leaders who are marching in the path that so many others before did when they fought and many dies for our right to vote"---advancing the false left wing narrative that Republicans are attempting to take away the right to vote by pursuing basic election integrity safeguards, such as ID requirements to vote by mail.
What's really going on in our country?
Yesterday President Biden traveled to Philadelphia to give a speech opposing efforts by Republican lawmakers to bolster voting integrity through voter identification requirements and bans on ballot harvesting.
Ballot harvesting and no ID requirements are fundamental to the Democrats getting their desired outcome in elections.
Biden says he believes these "efforts to strip the right to vote" are "the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War."
He says that, but he knows better. The integrity requirements are considerably less than those of Biden's home state, Delaware. And he has never complained about those.
But this is different.
In an interview with NBC News, Democrat Majority Whip James Clyburn spilled the beans---he said out loud what others have been whispering---the Left is trying to federalize elections, through the elimination of the filibuster to maintain power for their party.
US Rep. Clyburn told NBC,
"We screw up this voting thing and [Raphael] Warnock ain't going to be in the Senate and we ain't going to win nothing in North Carolina and we don't have a chance down in Florida," referring to the three Senate battlefields in the mid-term elections where he suggested that there are fears that Black turnout could suffer because of Republican voting changes."
It's not really about voter integrity---it's really about sustaining Democrat power in coming elections
A vast majority of Americans support voter ID. Georgia's election integrity law is popular in the state.
Republican governors and attorneys general around the country have been fighting against the federalization of elections, with Arizona recently scoring big with a favorable Supreme Court ruling.
The Supreme Court ruled that states have the authority to pass and maintain laws that prevent voter fraud and safeguard election integrity, such as protections regarding ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct voting in Arizona.
The more the Democrats oppose common-sense voter integrity laws, the more Clyburn's words become reality..."If we screw up this voting thing...we ain't going to win nothing..."
The more the Left says, the more suspect they become.
"Integrity" has more to do with perpetuating the left's grasp on political power, than about being honest.
The Left is also out of touch with real America.
.@VP Harris says rural Americans can't get photocopies of their IDs to vote by mail because they don't have 'Kinkos or OfficeMax'
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 13, 2021
"There are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don't - there's no Kinkos, there's no OfficeMax near them." pic.twitter.com/7Ipyczpbbs
This past weekend VP Harris was making the case against voting integrity, by telling the country that voter ID will eliminate the folks who live in rural communities' right to vote.
Why?
Because they don't have access to Kinkos or Office Max and they can't make copies of their ID so they will be unable to prove who they are---thus not be able to vote. That's "voter suppression."
It's also nonsense. And it shows just how out of touch the so-called progressives are.
Takeaway
About the "rural people."
"I owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election." Margaret Thatcher.
About true leadership.
"Leadership is not about the next election, its about the next generation." Unknown
About elections.
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election. The people who count the votes do." Joseph Stalin
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Prayerful.