I hear what you are saying and agree with you. Just pointing out what the opposers are going to say.

Doing it based on metrics would be ideal, but we don't live in ideal.

About damn time we play hard ball with these leftists and show them how we can legally say **** you!

Based upon the facts that the Governor alleges, where is the proper county to file an indictment for bribery?

Travis? Home county of elected official? In any case, felony indictments are the province of county district attorneys and not state officials.

You will see vast differences depending upon the county IMO.

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I hear what you are saying and agree with you. Just pointing out what the opposers are going to say.

Doing it based on metrics would be ideal, but we don't live in ideal.

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Right. And I didn't mean to imply we weren't having middle ground. I was referring to the emotional types that say math is racist, etc.

But the 14th and 15th can be met with the analytical process from a legal perspective, provided it has legislature oversight. Whether the emotional crowd agrees is a different problem.

If you don't think that this is whole stunt is being funded and strategized by a Democratic National Party think tank (hopefully not using our tax-payer dollars) then you're kidding yourself. They want this to be a national headline to try and help the Democratic Party. There are precedents in the written in Texas Law about this, so its in no way an over-reach by the governor to enforce the clearly stated law.

Republicans have done this in California and Washington. Not sure I want to be setting this precedent because you know Newsome would try to pull a similar stunt

Drag them home. Broadcast it on the six o'clock news.

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If you don't think that this is whole stunt is being funded and strategized by a Democratic National Party think tank (hopefully not using our tax-payer dollars) then you're kidding yourself. They want this to be a national headline to try and help the Democratic Party. There are precedents in the written in Texas Law about this, so its in no way an over-reach by the governor to enforce the clearly stated law.

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100% this. I want to know who is funding these lay-abouts' vacation.

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It is 3:00pm do you know where your representative is?

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Giovanni Capriglione? Probably banging some stripper behind a Chuck E. Cheese.

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Which Chuck E Cheese.

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The felony charge is a bribery allegation. That will require a grand jury indictment and will take time to become actionable.

The abandonment of the House is a misdemeanor and that warrant will not normally cross state lines without strong support in the other state.

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Well lets fire up the grand jury and start by subpoenaing the Ds who fled to ask them under oath if anybody has offered or is helping to pay their fines. If they don't show up to testify, add skipping the subpoena to their charges. Then start dragging in the people offering raising the funds to pay the fines and get them under oath. Maybe charge them with attempted bribery for raising the funds. Lets see how much pain we can inflict on the left and its funding apparatus before they decide that the inevitable is actually inevitable.

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You forgot conspiracy charges. They planned it in advance. They were aided and abetted by people in IL and NY in this. So, if they accepted help in their political act then what follows is that the time and assistance of those individuals in assisting with their logistics (as the IL Governor put it) then that is aiding and abetting. So consipracy.

Now if you wanted to get the DOJ involved then there would be crossing state lines so you might be able to use 18 U.S.C. 371 or 18 U.S.C. 1952. Further money changing hands to pay for this could then invoke wire charges and other process charges. So many interesting choices if the DOJ gets involved.

After what the Dems put our country through with lawfare it's about time they suffered some of the exact same consequences. Lots and lots of them. Midnight raids in front of cameras. Search warrants. Anyone that isn't on TV gets their house tossed. Look through all their documents and communications because of conspiracy, solicitation of bribery and everything else. They wanted a new norm. They should wallow in it to learn those lessons.

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The felony charge is a bribery allegation. That will require a grand jury indictment and will take time to become actionable.

The abandonment of the House is a misdemeanor and that warrant will not normally cross state lines without strong support in the other state.

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Well lets fire up the grand jury and start by subpoenaing the Ds who fled to ask them under oath if anybody has offered or is helping to pay their fines. If they don't show up to testify, add skipping the subpoena to their charges. Then start dragging in the people offering raising the funds to pay the fines and get them under oath. Maybe charge them with attempted bribery for raising the funds. Lets see how much pain we can inflict on the left and its funding apparatus before they decide that the inevitable is actually inevitable.

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You forgot conspiracy charges. They planned it in advance. They were aided and abetted by people in IL and NY in this. So, if they accepted help in their political act then what follows is that the time and assistance of those individuals in assisting with their logistics (as the IL Governor put it) then that is aiding and abetting. So consipracy.

Now if you wanted to get the DOJ involved then there would be crossing state lines so you might be able to use 18 U.S.C. 371 or 18 U.S.C. 1952. Further money changing hands to pay for this could then invoke wire charges and other process charges. So many interesting choices if the DOJ gets involved.

After what the Dems put our country through with lawfare it's about time they suffered some of the exact same consequences. Lots and lots of them. Midnight raids in front of cameras. Search warrants. Anyone that isn't on TV gets their house tossed. Look through all their documents and communications because of conspiracy, solicitation of bribery and everything else. They wanted a new norm. They should wallow in it to learn those lessons.

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I think a very thorough search of their houses to make sure they aren't actually at home would be a good first start. Then maybe go through all of their papers and electronics at the home to see if you could find out where they are staying and who may have helped them leave the state. Check in with their mistresses and search their apartments too to see if they know where they might be found. Make sure to do it in a way that it becomes public so that their wives have to respond to questions.

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You forgot conspiracy charges. They planned it in advance. They were aided and abetted by people in IL and NY in this. So, if they accepted help in their political act then what follows is that the time and assistance of those individuals in assisting with their logistics (as the IL Governor put it) then that is aiding and abetting. So consipracy.

Now if you wanted to get the DOJ involved then there would be crossing state lines so you might be able to use 18 U.S.C. 371 or 18 U.S.C. 1952. Further money changing hands to pay for this could then invoke wire charges and other process charges. So many interesting choices if the DOJ gets involved.

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Indeed. Is IL Gov providing free Hyatt hotel rooms to them? Seems there are some campaign finance issues there as well.

Exactly…. All this other non sense about firing them, hunting down their families, throwing families in jail, is just make believe from folks who obviously don't understand laws.

The Dems are cowards and should be arrested once they land. But they will be released soon after, and charges won't be pursued because this is all political theatre. R's have done this in Blue states and will continue to do it. If you think this results in anyone losing their seat or going to prison I have some swampland for sale for ya.

My rep has proposed for the GOP to start removing them from chairmanships, stripping seniority, reassigning their offices to MUCH smaller accommodations (moving freshmen GOP into dem leadership offices) , stripping out their office staff salary.

Time for the gloves to come off.

However, the current Texas GOP lacks the balls to do this as Dustin Burrows allowed Democrats to chair committees (a blatant snub to the grassroots and RPT platform).

We are watching.

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My rep has proposed for the GOP to start removing them from chairmanships, stripping seniority, reassigning their offices to MUCH smaller accommodations (moving freshmen GOP into dem leadership offices) , stripping out their office staff salary.

Time for the gloves to come off.

However, the current Texas GOP lacks the balls to do this as Dustin Burrows allowed Democrats to chair committees (a blatant snub to the grassroots and RPT platform).

We are watching.

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Burrows owes his ownership of the speaker's gavel to the dems. No way is he going to play hardball with them. He will do the symbolic acts like putting warrants out, but he is not going to do anything that will piss them off long-term because he will need their votes again next session to get elected speaker again.

May already have been discussed and if so please forgive. Under Tex Civil Practice and Remedies Code under Title 3, Chapter 66, Sec 66.001 Grounds: whether a specific legislator abandoned his/ her office so that a vacancy occurred is a fact question for a court to determine. Sec 66.002 Institution of a Quo Warranto Suit in a district court includes the Texas Atty Gen, a County Atty or District Atty. I don't think the gov can act before the court first acts.

Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty and are holding flood relief and property tax cuts hostage.

I ordered Texas DPS to arrest and return every derelict House Democrat to the Texas Capitol.

This order will remain in effect until all missing Democrats are accounted for. pic.twitter.com/A87u2JxYU7

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 4, 2025

2 hours in since Abbott's tweet. Anything?

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He is not their boss. He did not hire them, and he should not be able to fire them. A governor firing a congressman is the opposite of representative government.

I disagree with elected officials being little *****es and fleeing to other states like a bunch of cowards, and I would never vote for for someone who has ever done something like this. But if their constituents support their behavior, there is nothing I nor the governor should be able to do about it.

We are a republic, not a dictatorship.

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What if they pull this after you voted for them? No consequences for them until the next election? Doesn't seem logical to me.

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He is not their boss. He did not hire them, and he should not be able to fire them. A governor firing a congressman is the opposite of representative government.

But if their constituents support their behavior, there is nothing I nor the governor should be able to do about it.

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Nope. They were elected to represent. What they're doing is the opposite of that.

He's one of them. But this presents a great opportunity for people who know what Burrows, Buckley, Phelan and their comrades actually are to hold their feet to the fire and show the world that their words and actions do not align.

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It is 3:00pm do you know where your representative is?

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Giovanni Capriglione? Probably banging some stripper behind a Chuck E. Cheese.

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Which Chuck E Cheese.

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Here is the story for those outside of DFW.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/28/us-news/pro-life-texas-pol-accused-of-torrid-affair-with-stripper-and-paying-for-abortions/

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Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty and are holding flood relief and property tax cuts hostage.

I ordered Texas DPS to arrest and return every derelict House Democrat to the Texas Capitol.

This order will remain in effect until all missing Democrats are accounted for. pic.twitter.com/A87u2JxYU7

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 4, 2025

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Would be hilarious if they set bounty hunter loose on them .

I thought last time they did this the rule is DPS cannot go out of state to retrieve them. Eventually you wait them until the Dems realize no one is listening to them, and the money runs out, and they kids miss em, so they go home and back to Austin.

All theatrics. Which the Dems have long been so bad at theatrics most would rather watch 700 Club reruns.

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I thought last time they did this the rule is DPS cannot go out of state to retrieve them. Eventually you wait them until the Dems realize no one is listening to them, and the money runs out, and they kids miss em, so they go home and back to Austin.

All theatrics. Which the Dems have long been so bad at theatrics most would rather watch 700 Club reruns.

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This is not actually a half bad play. Call their bluff. See how long they can go.

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It is 3:00pm do you know where your representative is?

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Giovanni Capriglione? Probably banging some stripper behind a Chuck E. Cheese.

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Which Chuck E Cheese.

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Here is the story for those outside of DFW.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/28/us-news/pro-life-texas-pol-accused-of-torrid-affair-with-stripper-and-paying-for-abortions/

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I don't blame Capriglione for tapping that.

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Those blue states have a well-intentioned desire to ensure representation that reflects the voters.

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Wow. That's two teas level analysis right there.

Quoted again by itself for posterity's sake.

TX
56% voted Republican in 2024
66% of Congressman are Republicans


CA
58.5% voted Democrat in 2024
82.6% of Congressman are Democrats

NY
56% voted Democrat in 2024
73% of Congressman are Democrats

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If you don't think that this is whole stunt is being funded and strategized by a Democratic National Party think tank (hopefully not using our tax-payer dollars) then you're kidding yourself. They want this to be a national headline to try and help the Democratic Party. There are precedents in the written in Texas Law about this, so its in no way an over-reach by the governor to enforce the clearly stated law.

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Who doesn't think that? Hakeem Jeffries has been all over this on national news.

I'm really sick of vile people like this being in government. The attitude, the tone, the disrespect, the thug attitude, the head bobble, the whole thing. I've just had enough. Make it stop

Thug Texas Democrat curses at Gov. Greg Abbott and says she hasn’t broken any law by fleeing her duties in Texas.

She’s low IQ enough to think Texas hadn’t anticipated what she and her deranged Dem ilk are doing.

She’ll be fined, prosecuted, and expelled.pic.twitter.com/ZjrVC4PJAs

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 4, 2025

She needin be axin sumwon to help her understand da law.

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I'm really sick of vile people like this being in government. The attitude, the tone, the disrespect, the thug attitude, the head bobble, the whole thing. I've just had enough. Make it stop

Thug Texas Democrat curses at Gov. Greg Abbott and says she hasn’t broken any law by fleeing her duties in Texas.

She’s low IQ enough to think Texas hadn’t anticipated what she and her deranged Dem ilk are doing.

She’ll be fined, prosecuted, and expelled.pic.twitter.com/ZjrVC4PJAs

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 4, 2025

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Yep. I can't wait to watch these pompous jerks get arrested and hauled back to Texas to face charges and fines. It will be extremely entertaining.

And it will be even better when they are either kicked out of office and replaced, or forced into the chambers for a quorum, open the session, and lose the vote despite their best attempts to subvert Texas governance and the will of the people.

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I'm really sick of vile people like this being in government. The attitude, the tone, the disrespect, the thug attitude, the head bobble, the whole thing. I've just had enough. Make it stop

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I was going to say something about politicians who act ghetto, but I realized that's Jolanda Jones and she's not acting. That B is legitimately crazy. When she lost reelection to Houston city council, she ran for HISD school board and turned their meetings into a circus side show with her hysterical theatrics. Not surprised she found the cameras in NY or wherever she went.

And she's been running for various offices for like 20 years ever since she was on Survivor; never heard of her actually practicing law.

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I'm really sick of vile people like this being in government. The attitude, the tone, the disrespect, the thug attitude, the head bobble, the whole thing. I've just had enough. Make it stop

Thug Texas Democrat curses at Gov. Greg Abbott and says she hasn’t broken any law by fleeing her duties in Texas.

She’s low IQ enough to think Texas hadn’t anticipated what she and her deranged Dem ilk are doing.

She’ll be fined, prosecuted, and expelled.pic.twitter.com/ZjrVC4PJAs

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 4, 2025

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Maga doesn't get to gripe about any politician's attitude, tone, or disrespect.

samurai_science said:

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TX
56% voted Republican in 2024
66% of Congressman are Republicans


CA
58.5% voted Democrat in 2024
82.6% of Congressman are Democrats

NY
56% voted Democrat in 2024
73% of Congressman are Democrats

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Go look at IL...or MD...or MA...

I'm tired of the left claiming OPPRESSION when they have many more states that have employed these tactics...