Texas Home Rep. Nicole Collier continues to defy an order stating that every one Democratic Get together members of the chamber’s physique can not transfer about with out a police escort. Rep. Nicole Collier was joined this week by a few of her occasion colleagues, who all carried out a grand gesture in solidarity.
By the use of a steady livestream on the Texas Home Democrats‘ YouTube web page, a few of Rep. Nicole Collier’s colleagues have joined her contained in the Home chamber to affix her protest of Home Speaker Dustin Burrows’ order that every one members of the occasion be underneath the watch of a police escort. Referring to Burrows’ order as a “permission slip,” the Democrats dramatically ripped the paperwork aside on the livestream.
The order is in response to a number of Texas Home Democratic Get together members leaving the state to disrupt a vote on a redistricting plan that might give the primarily pink state 5 extra seats within the legislature.
Rep. Gene Wu, the Home minority chief from Houston, and Rep. Vincel Perez of El Paso, spent the evening with Collier in assist. Rep. Penny Morales Shaw of Houston and Cassandra Garcia Hernandez of Dallas additionally joined Collier on the Home ground. Within the picture above, Rep. Mihaela Plesa was photographed tearing aside the order.
Watch the Texas Home livestream beneath.
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