Texas Democrats Flee the State
Poster: cjones
Posted on May 14, 2003 at 3:36:38 AM
A little off-topic for this site, but I saw it on the local news and thought it was pretty funny. Texas lawmakers have fled the state to Oklahoma in protest of a re-districting bill. Texas Rangers were ordered to find the runaways and return them to the capitol.
They have even setup a tip line to call and report sightings of any of the missing lawmakers.
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They have even setup a tip line to call and report sightings of any of the missing lawmakers.
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The diversion started Sunday night when 58 Texas Democrats slipped across the Red River to take up temporary residence at a Holiday Inn in Ardmore, Okla. On Monday, Republican Gov. Rick Perry (search) sent the Texas Rangers to Ardmore to arrest and escort the AWOL Democrats back to Austin, a move allowed under the Texas Constitution.
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