{"id":589609,"date":"2021-07-13T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589609"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:18:27","slug":"texas-governor-says-special-sessions-will-continue-texans-oppose-walkouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-governor-says-special-sessions-will-continue-texans-oppose-walkouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Says Special Sessions Will Continue, Texans Oppose Walkouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-governor-says-special-sessions-will-continue-texans-oppose-walkouts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589609&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-greg-abbott\">Greg Abbott<\/a> announced late Monday that he will continue Special Sessions, citing a poll that shows more than half of Texans oppose walkouts planned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-democrats\">Democrats<\/a> to block a GOP-backed election overhaul bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexans Oppose Walkouts to Avoid Votes. No one else gets paid to walk off their job. Quitters never win,\u201d the Republican governor said on Twitter. \u201cWe will continue successive Special Sessions until elected representatives do what they were elected to do\u2014debate issues &amp; cast votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News of the walkout, planned in response to a GOP overhaul of election laws, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/texas-democrats-flee-state-effort-block-gop-backed-voting-restrictions-n1273667\">first reported by NBC News<\/a> and later by Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa on Monday in a statement. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how many of the 67 Democrats in the Texas House planned to participate in the walkout, but party leaders said it was enough to bring the Legislature to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>In his Twitter post Monday night, Abbott cited a poll from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/press\/poll-texans-oppose-walkouts-to-avoid-votes\">Texas Public Policy Foundation<\/a>, which found that by a two-to-one margin, Texans oppose state legislators using \u201cprocedural maneuvers\u201d to prevent voting.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Texans (54 percent), said they oppose members staging walkouts that would \u201cdeny the Legislature the quorum it needs in order to hold votes.\u201d Just 27 percent of Texans say they support the moves, the poll shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalkouts are only supported by the extreme left,\u201d said Texas Public Policy Foundation Chief Communications Officer Brian Phillips in a statement. \u201cMost Texans see it as a childish and desperate move, and they don\u2019t like temper tantrums. We can have respectful disagreements and energetic debates. But the process must move forward. There will be a side that gets the votes and side that doesn\u2019t. If one side can abuse the rules to prevent votes, then we cease to have a functioning democracy. The left is embarrassing themselves and Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no democracy without the right to vote,\u201d Hinojosa said in a statement. \u201cOnce again, Democrats are standing strong and united to defend the right of every eligible Texas voter to make their voice heard. I\u2019m incredibly proud of our Texas Democratic lawmakers, who continue to fight relentlessly on behalf of Texans, voters, and our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3899292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13\/Texas-Gilberto-Hinojosa-1200x801.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3899292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Texas-Gilberto-Hinojosa-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa speaks at a rally at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas, on June 20, 2021. (Sergio Flores\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Earlier Monday, the Republican governor said that Democrats\u2019 decision \u201cinflicts harm on the very Texans who elected them to serve\u201d and said the lawmakers are leaving \u201cundone issues that can help their districts and our state\u201d as they \u201cfly across the country on cushy private planes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a\u00a0Texas state House committee voted on Sunday to push forward legislation that would bring back a number of voting integrity-related proposals that failed to pass during the previous session. Senate lawmakers advanced their version of the voting bill later that day in a committee vote.<\/p>\n<p>The two bills have been described by Republicans as necessary to combat voter fraud and election irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott told Fox News on Sunday that the voting overhaul bills seek to \u201c[make] it easier to vote by adding more hours in early voting than we have in current law, but also making it harder to cheat with regard to mail-in ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor has said that lawmakers who have left the state as part of the walkout can and \u201cwill be arrested\u201d upon their return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as they come back in the state of Texas, they will be arrested, they will be cabined inside the Texas Capitol until they get their job done,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/politics\/texas-legislature\/abbott-kvue-special-session\/269-c45b5a5c-5da8-4662-a555-3d8e27635fca\">told KVUE<\/a>. \u201cEverybody who has a job must show up to do that job, just like your viewers watching right now. State representatives have that same responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. 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